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US Patent Office - Delays In Getting Technology Protection

Mequon, WI, January 4, 2010 - Telaric Ideas releases its annual tabulation of the time it takes to get a patent.

Patents in 2009 taking the longest time to be approved for the state of Calif.


7572252 Patent Date:Aug. 11, 2009 14.2 Years to be approved
Title: Electrotransport agent delivery method and apparatus
Inventor(s): J. Bradley Phipps, Plymouth, Minn. (US); Gary A. Lattin, Forest Lake, Minn. (US); Ronald P. Haak, Menlo Park, Calif. (US); Suneel Gupta, Redwood City, Calif. (US); and Felix Theeuwes, Los Altos Hills, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Alza Corporation, Mountain View, Calif. (US)
 
7527925 Patent Date:5/5/2009 14 Years to be approved
Title: Purified pol DNA, a recombinant DNA construct for expression of HIV pol polypeptide sequences and a cell containing such construct
Inventor(s): Paul A. Luciw, Davis, Calif. (US); Dino Dina, San Francisco, Calif. (US); Kathelyn Steimer, Benicia, Calif. (US); Ray Sanchez Pescador, Oakland, Calif. (US); Carlos George-Nascimento, Danville, Calif. (US); Deborah Parkes, Oakland, Calif. (US); Rob Hallewell, San Francisco, Calif. (US); Philip J. Barr, Oakland, Calif. (US); and Martha Truett, Oakland, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., Emeryville, Calif. (US)
 
7517858 Patent Date:Apr. 14, 2009 13.9 Years to be approved
Title: Prodrugs of pharmaceuticals with improved bioavailability
Inventor(s): Karl Y. Hostetler, Del Mar, Calif. (US); Ganesh D. Kini, San Diego, Calif. (US); and James R. Beadle, San Diego, Calif. (US)
Assignee: The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, Calif. (US)
 
7501487 Patent Date:Mar. 10, 2009 13.8 Years to be approved
Title: Retinoid receptor compositions and methods
Inventor(s): David J. Mangelsdorf, San Diego, Calif. (US); and Ronald M. Evans, La Jolla, Calif. (US)
Assignee: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif. (US)
 
7636732 Patent Date:Dec. 22, 2009 12.6 Years to be approved
Title: Adaptive meta-tagging of websites
Inventor(s): Jakob Nielsen, Atherton, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
 
7553211 Patent Date:Jun. 30, 2009 12.4 Years to be approved
Title: System and method for controlling the operation of toys
Inventor(s): Peter C. DeAngelis, 2430 Torrejon Pl., Carlsbad, Calif. 92009 (US)
Assignee: Not Assigned
 
7589962 Patent Date:Sep. 15, 2009 12.1 Years to be approved
Title: Apparatus for cooling a heat dissipating device located within a portable computer
Inventor(s): Rakesh Bhatia, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
 
7519549 Patent Date:Apr. 14, 2009 11.8 Years to be approved
Title: Inventory sales system and method
Inventor(s): Jerome Dale Johnson, North Mankato, Minn. (US); David Robert Lundberg, Mankato, Minn. (US); and Dale Arthur Mehr, Mankato, Minn. (US)
Assignee: Presentation Specialist Technologies, LLC, Indian Wells, Calif. (US)
 
7636846 Patent Date:Dec. 22, 2009 11.6 Years to be approved
Title: Global conditional access system for broadcast services
Inventor(s): Ahmet Mursit Eskicioglu, Indianapolis, Ind. (US)
Assignee: UQE LLC, Novato, Calif. (US)
 
7490112 Patent Date:Feb. 10, 2009 11.4 Years to be approved
Title: System and methods for synchronizing information among disparate datasets
Inventor(s): Sethuraman Suresh, Santa Cruz, Calif. (US); Philippe Richard Kahn, Scotts Valley, Calif. (US); and John S. Baumgarten, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Intellisync Corporation, San jose, Calif. (US)
 
7581006 Patent Date:Aug. 25, 2009 11.2 Years to be approved
Title: Web service
Inventor(s): Marco Lara, Topsfield, Mass. (US); Stefan Reitshamer, Medford, Mass. (US); Stanley Yamane, Framingham, Mass. (US); Freeland Abbott, Arlington, Mass. (US); and Jason DeBettencourt, Framingham, Mass. (US)
Assignee: Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US)
 
7560237 Patent Date:Jul. 14, 2009 11.1 Years to be approved
Title: Electronics method for the detection of analytes
Inventor(s): Stephen D. O'Connor, Pasadena, Calif. (US); and Jon Faiz Kayyem, Pasadena, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Osmetech Technology Inc., Pasadena, Calif. (US)
 
7599658 Patent Date:Oct. 06, 2009 11 Years to be approved
Title: Method for uplink power control for distributed satellite networks to compensate for rain fade
Inventor(s): Anil K. Agarwal, Gaithersburg, Md. (US); and Moorthy N. Hariharan, Germantown, Md. (US)
Assignee: Viasat, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif. (US)
 
7623140 Patent Date:Nov. 24, 2009 10.7 Years to be approved
Title: Method and apparatus for processing video and graphics data to create a composite output image having independent and separate layers of video and graphics
Inventor(s): Gerard K. Yeh, Redwood City, Calif. (US); C. Dardy Chang, Mountain View, Calif. (US); and Meng-Day (Mandel) Yu, Palo Alto, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Zoran Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif. (US)
 
7610607 Patent Date:Oct. 27, 2009 10.7 Years to be approved
Title: Chaincast method and system for broadcasting information to multiple systems within the internet
Inventor(s): Jozsef Kiraly, San Martin, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Chaincast Networks, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US)
 
7640176 Patent Date:Dec. 29, 2009 10.6 Years to be approved
Title: Insurance agent contact system
Inventor(s): Steven P. Aldrich, Alexandria, Va. (US); Mark T. McCrery, Alexandria, Va. (US); Slawek I. Ligier, Fairfax, Va. (US); Timothy J. Froemling, Arlington, Va. (US); and Adrienne Fetrow, Columbia, Md. (US)
Assignee: Insweb Corporation, Gold River, Calif. (US)
 
7567677 Patent Date:Jul. 28, 2009 10.6 Years to be approved
Title: Noise reduction scheme for a computer system
Inventor(s): Rix S. Chan, Dakota Dunes, S. Dak. (US); and Vijay Zaver, Dakota Dunes, S. Dak. (US)
Assignee: Gateway, Inc., Poway, Calif. (US)
 
7617175 Patent Date:Nov. 10, 2009 10.6 Years to be approved
Title: Method and apparatus for upgrading a database in a redundant environment by release chaining
Inventor(s): Jerome A. Mouton, Jr., Palo Alto, Calif. (US); Alex Van Truong, Santa Clara, Calif. (US); and William P. Buckley, San Jose, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US)
 
7484353 Patent Date:Feb. 03, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Rocket motor case using plank sections and methods of manufacturing
Inventor(s): Irving Edward “Ward” Figge, Sr., Manassas, Va. (US); and Phillip Henry Graham, Warrenton, Va. (US)
Assignee: Aerojet-General Corporation, Rancho-Cordova, Calif. (US)
 
7555603 Patent Date:Jun. 30, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Transaction manager and cache for processing agent
Inventor(s): Chinna Prudvi, Portland, Oreg. (US); and Derek T. Bachand, Portland, Oreg. (US)
Assignee: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
 
7617240 Patent Date:Nov. 10, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Component based task handling during claim processing
Inventor(s): George V. Guyan, Bethlehem, Pa. (US); Robert H. Pish, Minneapolis, Minn. (US); and Carles Muntada, Chicago, Ill. (US)
Assignee: Accenture LLP, San Jose, Calif. (US)
 
7634787 Patent Date:Dec. 15, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Automatic control of broadcast and execution of interactive applications to maintain synchronous operation with broadcast programs
Inventor(s): Bryan C. Gebhardt, Oakland, Calif. (US); Kalpesh R. Patel, San Jose, Calif. (US); Allan C. Thygesen, Menlo Park, Calif. (US); Steve Berriatua, San Bruno, Calif. (US); and Christopher J. Michel, Burbank, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Wink Communications, Inc., San Francisco, Calif. (US)
 
7640325 Patent Date:Dec. 29, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Methods and apparatus for issuing updates to multiple management entities
Inventor(s): Rodney A. DeKoning, Augusta, Kans. (US); Ray M. Jantz, Wichita, Kans. (US); William V. Courtright, II, Pittsburgh, Pa. (US); and Matthew A. Markus, San Francisco, Calif. (US)
Assignee: LSI Corporation, Milpitas, Calif. (US)
 
7593952 Patent Date:Sep. 22, 2009 10.5 Years to be approved
Title: Enhanced medical treatment system
Inventor(s): Andrew H. Soll, 1665 Michael La., Pacific Palisades, Calif. 90272 (US); and Liana Violet Soll, 2621 Centinela Ave., #4, Santa Monica, Calif. 90405 (US)
Assignee: Not Assigned
 
7596910 Patent Date:Oct. 06, 2009 10.4 Years to be approved
Title: Unitary configured bird repellent apparatus
Inventor(s): Bruce A. Donoho, Mission Viejo, Calif. (US)
Assignee: Bird-B-Gone, Inc., Mission Viejo, Calif. (US)
 
 

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