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Online retailer Amazon.com said it has agreed to acquire audio books seller Audible.com
for approximately $300 million in cash and short-term investment. The move lends added
distribution and format flexibility to Seattle-based Amazon which is best known as a book
seller. It also comes on the heels on a series of moves Amazon has made with the major
music labels to free its music download business of copy protection restrictions.
Thomson
Scientific Makes File Histories Available Through Dialog
Thomson Press Release, January 29
Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation has announced that research
professionals can now order file histories directly through patent and trademark databases
on Dialog®, giving researchers the complete information on a patent or trademark
in one place.
File histories are up-to-date accounts of the prosecution history for published or
granted patent cases and trademarks. Also called "file wrappers," file histories
provide the full history of a patent including all documentation of the correspondence
between the examiner at the patent office and the applicant or their representatives.
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