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Release Date: May 28, 2008

PatentCafe Adds New Patent Quality Reports to Its Free CAFC Library

By PatentCafe.com, Inc.
May 28, 2008

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Publically Accessible Reports Statistically Score Critical Legal, Commercial And Technology Indices.

PR9.NET May 28, 2008 - United States, Sacramento – PatentCafe is pleased to announce that the updates to the company's patent library of post-KSR decisions are now available. Patent reports added cover the date range of April 1st till May 14th, 2008, among these are patents mentioned in the following lawsuits: Microprocessor Enhancement v. Texas Instruments, Finisar v. The Direct TV Group, Energizer Holdings v. ITC, Lucent v. Gateway, Mangosoft v. Oracle. The entire library of post-KSR cases covers the time frame from May 1st 2007 till present.

The new Patent Factor Index (PFi™) Reports, available for public downloading without cost, statistically score more than 2 dozen indicators of patent quality, many of the indices correlating directly to how the CAFC has decided on cases involving these patents.

The reports correlate with the decisions of the court, projecting strengths and weaknesses of patents in suit onto the verdicts. To name a few:

- in Microprocessor Enhancement v. Texas Instruments, the Court found patent US 5,471,593 not to be infringed, and the respective Patent Factor report shows this patent to have negative scores on relevancy strength, novelty and claim scope breadth;
- in Energizer Holdings v. Int'l Trade Commission, the Court found several claims of US patent 5,464,709 to be invalid, and therefore found patent not to be infringed by a group of Chinese manufacturers. This patent scored low on relevancy strength, novelty and validity confidence in the Patent Factor Report;
- in Mangosoft v. Oracle, patent # 6,148,377 showed low scores on novelty and sustainability in opposition, and the patent in suit has been indeed found not infringed by the Court.

PatentCafe's PFi™ report system uses the company's international patent search engine, and its proprietary artificial intelligence search technology, to identify and compare indices of 100 most closely related patents. The index scores for each patent quality critical factors that can reflect court decisions that relate to the quality of litigated patents.

Practically, the indices highlight patent quality of three key patent quality groups: Legal, Commercial, and Technology factors.

The patent pending PFi™ reports were first introduced in 2004, and have been used by the world's largest patent owners, law firms, technology investors and intellectual property consulting firms to analyze patents for acquisition and licensing, and to support litigations strategy.

PatentCafe's intellectual property management software solutions are used for patent research, infringement analysis, product R&D investment strategy, licensing revenue development, patent-based business intelligence, portfolio / technology M&A.

The time frame covered by the reports includes CAFC decisions starting May 2007, and is updated the day following new CAFC decisions.

The PFi™ Reports are publically accessed from http://www.patentcafe.com/library/ksr.asp

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