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		<title><![CDATA[Dried Cranberry Rivals Both Claim Win in Patent Battle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ocean Spray and Decas Cranberry Sales have both claimed victory in their ongoing legal fight over sweetened dried cranberries. Ocean Spray has accused Decas of stealing its patented dried cranberry technology, while Decas has accused Ocean Spray of seeking to monopolize the sweetened dried cranberry market through frivolous lawsuits. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:33:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Penwest Pharmaceuticals Co. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Bert Hazlett from BMO Capital Markets. Jim Tumbering - BMO Capital Markets  It&#8217;s Jim Tumbering with Bert. Two questions. First, maybe if you could just quantify the financial benefit going forward of some of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Local.com Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Conference Call]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Wayne Chang with Canaccord Adams. Please go ahead. Wayne Chang - Canaccord Adams Just related to your opening remarks about the intended plan vertical launches. Can you just shed a little bit more light around what key...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:51:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rambus Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator Instructions We&#8217;ll go to Jeff Schreiner of CapStone Investments. Jeff Schreiner - CapStone Investments  Hello everyone, thank you very much for taking my questions today. I&#8217;ve been bouncing in between two calls here, so I apologize if I repeat anything. The first question I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nokia Sues Apple: iPhone Maker Accused Of Infringing Mobile Patents]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You might call it a case of: &#8220;if you can&#8217;t beat &#8216;em, sue &#8216;em&#8221;. Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) on Thursday on grounds that the iPhone maker has used Nokia&#8217;s mobile technology without permission. The case, filed in the U.S. District...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Phoenix Media Says Facebook Is Infringing On 'Profile Page' Patent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A newspaper company&#8212;yes, a newspaper company&#8212;has a patent on the idea of a &#8220;personal profile page&#8221; and now wants some payback from Facebook. In a lawsuit filed this week, Phoenix Media subsidiary Tele-Publishing, which provides dating services products to various newspaper companies, says that Facebook is infringing on a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:30:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[R.I.P., Patent Rules Changes, Hello Patent Reform Bill Push]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The patent rules changes, proposed under the previous director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, have been officially put down by the same agency under its new head. But that's far from the end of attempts to change the way the patent process currently works. by Erik Sherman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:24:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple, Amazon, Google, Others on Patent Pain Front]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories of small companies suing larger companies right and left -- sometimes with a firm belief that they've been wronged, other times with a firm belief that being just annoying enough but not too so gets you a settlement -- are nothing new. But when you have one that has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:21:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Opposition in Bilski Targets Business Method Patents Test]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business method patents have been a contentious issue, with some saying that they're necessary for software innovation and others claiming that they prevent innovation. The Bilski case, which will be hear by the Supreme Court, is bring up the issues, and chances are that there could be some significant shake-ups....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:00:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Actavis launches challenge to Pfizer drug]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Actavis, the Iceland-based generic company, yesterday launched the most high profile commercial challenge in western Europe to Pfizer's best-selling and patentprotected medicine.The company said it had made a first shipment of 30m tablets into Spain of a cheaper variant of Lipitor, known generically as atorvastatin, which is widely prescribed...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PalTalk Aims At Warcraft, Other MMOs With New Patent Infringement Lawsuit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Video-based social network and chat service PalTalk has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit that could make massively multiplayer online MMO games like World of Warcraft and Free Realms far less lucrative for their parent companies. Paltalk is suing Sony, Activision Blizzard, Turbine, Jagex and NCSoft for damages in...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Higher Fees and Other Notes on the Patent Front]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[USPTO director David Kappos gave a talk earlier this week, and it gives some hints as to what companies might expect on the patent front. by Erik Sherman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:08:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acacia Research Corporation in Singular Research Annual ?Best of the Uncovereds? Conference Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Participant  I&#8217;m new to the story, so pardon my question. You seem to have a very inaudible cost structure and how come it is that you can&#8217;t generate a free cash flow positive now? Do you have like a bunch of fixed costs out there that...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lilly Plans 5,500 Layoffs as Company Heads Over Zyprexa Patent Cliff]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter told Reuters he needs to cut 5,500 jobs from the company's workforce, that's 1,500 more than the 4,000 pharmaceutical sales reps who were offered buyouts in August. The move was expected, as Gemzar, Zyprexa and Cymbalta were set to see their patents expire in late...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Linux backers near patent deal in bid to protect OS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A group of Linux backers which includes IBM and Sony is seeking to avert any legal threat from Microsoft that might discourage the adoption of the Linux operating system by acquiring a set of patents formerly owned by the software giant. The Open Invention Network OIN says that the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:52:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Judge to Boehringer Patent Lawyer: You Were Just a Peon - and Therefore You Win This Case]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10004113/judge-to-boehringer-patent-lawyer-you-were-just-a-peon-and-therefore-you-win-this-case/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's official: If you're the chief patent counsel at Boehringer Ingelheim, then you do not occupy a position of "great corporate influence," according to a Connecticut federal judge. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:10:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in 2006, Google applied for a design patent on its home page that was just granted this week. (Via Patently-O.) Apparently copyright wasn't enough protection and Google wants to have a lever to deter those who would come up with a Google-like front end. And the patent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:50:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commissioner of Patents on Way Out]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in: the US Patent and Trademark Office has announced that current Commissioner for Patents John Doll, who has been at the agency for decades, will resign on October 2. That is months before his contract was supposed to be up, and given all the â€œwe thank John for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:37:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DRM Provider Intertrust's Patent Push Sparks Added Concerns Among Rivals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DRM provider Intertrust has had a tough enough time making inroads into the U.S. market with its promises to guard content providers&#8217; content from piracy. On top of the marketing issues&#8212;aside from the resentment DRM provokes from consumers, many digital device manufacturers are reluctant to spend additional capital on...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Continues Taking Aim at Healthcare Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica recently ran a post on Microsoft's attempt to patent some basic research techniques used in evolutionary biology. And if you look at the patent, they're right, though how broad the method they describe might be is open to interpretation by those more versed in biological esoteric than I....]]></description>
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