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: Patently ObviousUSPTO Patent Grant Numbers
By Dennis Crouch

The count of patents granted each week continues to remain at an all-time-high. If the trend continues for the last three months of the year, the USPTO will likely issue more than 220,000 utility patents for the year — 50,000 more than in 2009. Of the top-ten highest historic grant-weeks, all ten came from this summer (June – August 2010).
The following chart shows the historic patent grants per year. The figure for 2010 is forecasted based on data available as of August 18, 2010.

Full post as published by Patently Obvious on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).
Zantac Patent
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DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.
Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment
Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million
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$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.

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