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Unocal to Publicize RFG Patents, Halt Enforcement
Unocal will stop enforcing its reformulated gasoline RFG patents and release them to the public under a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC.Unocal will stop enforcing its reformulated gasoline RFG patents and release them to the public under a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission...
SETTLEMENT RESOLVES RFG PATENT MESS, CLEARS CHEVRON'S BUY OF UNOCAL
Unocal will stop enforcing its RFG patents and release them to the public, according to a settlement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC. The consent order, issued as part of Chevron's acquisition of the upstream oil company, settles the Unocal will stop enforcing its RFG patents and release...
California Joins States in Patent Case against Unocal.
By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--Joined by 21 other states, California officials pressed their case Thursday against a series of patents the Unocal Corp. obtained a decade ago on the recipe for cleaner-burning gasoline. ...
Refinery feels heat over clean-burning gas.(News)(the FTC claims that Union Oil Company of California has illegally attained monopoly power)
Byline: Joe Truini The Federal Trade Commission claims that a California refinery illegally attained monopoly power in the California clean-burning gasoline market by duping state regulators. According to the FTC's March 4 complaint, Uni ...
FTC sues Unocal over California cleaner-gas patents
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint Tuesday accusing the Unocal Corp. of fraudulent and anticompetitive practices in obtaining patents for the production of cleaner-burning gasoline. In a suit filed with an administrative law judge at the agency, the FTC contends that Unocal, which is based in...
ATTORNEY: FTC WOULD HAVE NOTED PTO'S REJECTION OF UNOCAL PATENTS
It has been 18 months since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC first received requests from oil companies and state officials to investigate allegations of unfair competition resulting from Unocal's gasoline patents. When conducting such an investigation, FTC staff takes note of developments in the marketplace and at other branches...
PTO BASES SECOND REJECTION OF UNOCAL PATENTS ON OBVIOUSNESS
On Dec. 28, the U.S. PTO issued its second rejection of Unocal's '393 patent for RFG on the basis of obviousness. Secs. 102b and 103a of U.S. patent law formed the basis for the rejections, the examination papers showed. On Dec. 28, the U.S. PTO issued its second...
Second Unocal RFG patent gets rejection. (Top of the News).(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Unocal Corp.)(Brief Article)
In July, the United States Patent and Trademark Office Preliminarily rejected El Segundo, Calif.-based Unocal Corp.'s "126" patent for reformulated gasoline, Reuters reported, but the company said it expects that its RFG patents will survive the review process. "An initial rejection of the...
U.S. PATENT OFFICE REJECTS UNOCAL'S '393 PATENT CLAIMS
U.S. oil companies caught the first break in their battle against Unocal's RFG patents when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO announced Tuesday it was rejecting Unocal's '393 patent. The decision comes 10 months after the PTO agreed to re-exam U.S. oil companies caught the first break...
U.S. PATENT OFFICE TO RE-EXAMINE A SECOND UNOCAL GASOLINE PATENT
Unocal Corp.'s '126 gasoline patent, one of the company's five highly debated RFG patents, will face re-examination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO. The '126 patent will be re- examined because of a "substantial new question of paten Unocal Corp.'s '126 gasoline patent, one of the...
Valero Ends Year of Growth With Drop in Earnings, But Still
Valero Ends Year of Growth With Drop in Earnings, But Still Beats Expectations The last quarter of 2001 was bittersweet for top independent refiner Valero. Its deal to acquire rival Ultramar Diamond Shamrock UDS won the blessing of the regulatory Federal Trade Commission FTC. But...
ExxonMobil continues to challenge Unocal patents. (Top of the News).(Brief Article)
The battle over the reformulated gasoline patents held by Unocal Corp. continued in May when ExxonMobil, Irving, Texas, said it has requested a federal investigation into the patents held by the El Segundo, Calif., refiner because it believes the pat The battle over the reformulated gasoline...
Clearing the air about Unocal's patents for reformulated gasolines.(Unocal's CEO answers critics)(Column)
Over the past year or two, there's been a lot of talk in the industry about Unocal's patents for cleaner-burning motor fuels. Frankly, much of this talk is inaccurate or deliberately misleading. Over the past year or two, there's been a lot of talk in...
Unocal sees ruling on gasoline patent by year-end.
Los Angeles-based Unocal Corp. expects the United States Supreme Court to rule by the end of this year on its patents on cleaner burning gasoline, which has been widely blamed for contributing to high United States gasoline prices this year, as repor Los Angeles-based Unocal Corp....
Jury awards Unocal $68 million by six majors for patent violations.
Oil firm Unocal was awarded with $68,425,000 in damages after a Los Angeles, CA, jury upheld the company's patent for the California Air Resources Board Phase 2 gasoline. Unocal charged Arco, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Mobil and Texaco with infringement afterOil firm Unocal was awarded with $68,425,000 in damages after a...
Six gasoline producers ask court to invalidate Unocal patent on California Reformulated Gasoline
LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--April 13, 1995--Six gasoline producers Thursday asked a federal court to invalidate Unocal Corp.'s patent for California Phase 2 Reformulated Gasoline RFG.
Unocal patent shocks competitors, throws RFG 'phase 2' up for grabs. (California's Phase 2 reformulated gasoline regulations)
Industry executives were caught off-guard by the award of a patent for Unocal Corp.'s reformulated gasoline. The patent, which covers a wide range of fuel compositions which refiners could manufacture to comply with the California Air Resources Board's (CIndustry executives were caught off-guard by the award of a patent for...
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$109,851 lottery prize still unclaimed
SAN LEANDRO -- Lots of people probably were eager to win the California Lottery's Fantasy 5 drawing on Oct. 7. But only one person was lucky enough to match all five numbers -- someone who purchased the winning ticket at Bayfair Unocal, 15803 E. 14th St. ...
eHealth Announces Appointment of Lawrence M. Higby as New Independent Director
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) announcedtoday that Lawrence M. Higby has been appointed as an independent directorto eHealth's Board of Directors. Mr. Higby has served as the president and chief executive officer of ApriaHealthcare Group Inc., a national provider of home healthcare products andservices, since February 2002. From 1997 until...
Tim Pownell to Join CREDO Petroleum as President and Chief Operating Officer
DENVER -- CREDO Petroleum Corporation (NASDAQ:CRED), an independent oil and gas company, reported today that Tim Pownell will be joining the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Pownell, 45, will join CREDO in early September 2008. He has over 20 years of experience in the oil...
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Unocal Corp. Company Info
NAICS Code
Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction: 211111
