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Show i - ucj i i ' . b i' 1 friday, sutemsw ... ; ". BUSW$S EOnOR I Grace Uong Local Industry News & Notes Distribution DHL win open DHL to open regional distribution center in SLC its first regional distribution center in Salt Lake City today and add 38 workers. The new center, which is expected to contribute about $750,000 to the Utah economy, will help make overnight ground delivery shipping services available to most areas statewide including Utah County. There are 15 existing DHL locations in Utah County including one staffed service center in American Fork, several drop boxes in Orem, Eagle Mountain, Provo and American Fork and three OfficeMax centers in Orem, Provo and American Fork that are authorized to resell shipping services. , The Salt Lake City distribution center is second of seven regional distribution centers to be added in the next two months as part of DHL's $12 billion investment program launched in June. DHL opened its first distribution center in Denver, Colo., on Wednesday. Retail Park City bottled water supplier expands to Associated Foods Park City IceWater, a bottled water product, may soon be availAssociated Foods' able in Salt Lake grocery chain in several states including Utah. Starting October, Park City IceWater could be' distributed to Associated Foods' stores in Utah County. These stores include Reams, Creamery on Ninth, Day's Markets, Kohler's, Smith Brothers, Macey's and Allen's markets in Provo, Orem, Springville, Spanish Fork, Pleasant Grove and LehL Founded in 2002, Park City IceWater, a unit of Wasatch IceWater of Park City, began distributing its bottled water in June in the Wasatch County towns of Kamas and Oakley. It is currently sold in Albertsons and Smith's Food & Drug stores in Park City, Day's Market in Heber, Ken's Cash in Oakley, Mrs. Field's Cookies in Park City's Tanger Outlet Mall, Jan's Mountain Outfitters and Cole ' Sport in Park City. dry-base- 600-sto- re d Banking Bank of American Fork to expand presence in Salt Lake County Bank of American Fork, which has seven community bank branches in Utah County, is expanding its presence in Salt Lake County by adding three more branches in South Jordan, Riverton and Draper next year. and There is a lack of community banks, or privately-owneoperated banks, in those areas," said Richard Beard, who will become Bank of American Fork's new president with effect Jan. I. The company has branches in American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Lehi, Spanish Fork, Alpine, Highland and Orem. d er V A A V Dow Jones Nasdaq SEP 500 Gold Final 10,33733 Final 1869.65 Final 1,118.38 Per ounce $398.50 --24.26 19.01 ,2.11 V -- $U5 EXCHANGING ' Euro Per ounce British pound . CanaolandoBar Mexican peso , $6,154 . the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust . This year, 63 percent of offered health benefits to workers, down from 68 percent in 200L The change is primarily driven by a decrease in the number of small employers, those with 3 to 199 workers, ' that offer coverage. The average premann for a family of four grew to $9,950 annually. The family premium for a preferred provider organization, the most common type of insurance, hit $10,217 Theresa Agovino THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Healthcare costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 1L2 percent, the fourth year of double-dig- it growth, according to a new study. The cumulative effect of rising health care costs is taking a toll on workers: There are at least 5 million fewer jobs providing health insurance in 2004 than in 2001, according to the survey of 3,017 employers by NEW YORK the first fime it broke $10,000 : . ; "; , Employers with three to 24 workers reported the biggest rs Delta plan seen by some as setup for bankruptcy ATLANTA Key elements of Delta Air Lines' broad turnaround plan will take months if not years to implement, suggesting the struggling carrier is setting itself up for how it will survive after a likely Chapter 11 filing, industry observers and legal experts said Thursday. Delta's plan, announced Wednesday, includes cutting up to 7,000 jobs, but over 18 months. The shedding of its Dallas hub win not take fuD effect until Jan. 31. Delta will expand its hubs in Cincinnati, Atlanta and Salt Lake City with redeployed aircraft from Dallas-Fort . Worth. ; . hike m the average famtty premium, 13.6 percent. "Health insurance is becoming unaffordable, especially for small employer We should expect the ranks of uninsured . to grow as small employers cant afford health insurance," said Drew Altman, president ' of the Kaiser Famfly Founda-- ; v tioa , Altman noted that the hike in health premiums outpaced both to pay $8.7M for race allegations 109J5 $U194 $1.7348 $12191 $1.7892 12868 128 11.5890 11.5880 -x the 22 percent growth in wages and 23 percent growth in inflation by five times. V There is a great sense that there is jus no answer to this problem, Airman added. The average premium for single coverage rose 92 percent to $383 annually. " The percentage employees paid toward the premiums remained steady' with singles picking up 16 percent of the tab, the same as in 2003. Employees paid 28 percent of the family premium, up from 27 percent last year. Grace Leong A DAILY HERALD Family Flix, a supplier of edited films that relocated its headquarters in Jury to Provo from Arizona, hopes to develop a bigger retail presence in Utah through a partnership with LDS Overstock & Edited Entertainment of Ogden. The company, which has four Family Flix dealer-rustores including one in Price and three in Arizona, reached an agreement last month with LDS Overstock to become an exclusive supplier of edited movies to its stores nationwide including Utah. Starting Oct. 1, Family Flix, IT, which offers more than 700 edited movie titles, will be fea hired in LDS Overstock stores nationwide including Cougar Video in Provo and Family Video in Highland. Of 15 new LDS Overstock stores planned this year, eight have already opened in Provo, Highland, Riverdale, Layton, Syracuse, Richard and Sandra Tend own the production company Family tlv& which edits popular films tof-'Bountiful, Hawaii and Califormake them more suitable for families. They wW open 15 store lhjts yeixr.and another 50 next year nia LDS Overstock plans to open 50 more stores next year. at locations across Utah. v ;. i Family Flix also win relocate to a site in I. L L.I Tl Provo in the coming months .2002 in federal court in Denver. outnicseixvinnuendosand and quadruple its existing The suit asked a federal kets partly because of existing graphic yiolehpe in FG43and 4 c$.. . jmooet wnue preserv company. The majorijudge to consider.if it is within v competition. "There are lots of people who sag ffi? integrity of aenlm.". ty of its customers are in Geor- JSne rights of cptnpijttues such as , want edited entertaiqment in ' V Cpopular movie has strong' 'jCleanFlicks toedft material, gia, Texas, the Florida panhan" Utah and there are many pcxvkrlei or a highly sexual such deem dle, North and South Carolina, objectionable they of im-- ', as profanity, nudity, violence : lar.tittes already available m :' Virginia and the midwest ern hdrita)unaaiioe vonY make arid language from movies states. edited movie stores," he sad. 1 pa'dressing, Richard Teraci, a "We're challenged because, w without the approval of the Di- saia, ramuy rnx s ectrtea ost, sne : ji wont edit movies if they have of Family FMx, is determined to rector's Guild and movie stuj a dios. mcwe ahead with the compaIDS Overstock, cited Family too much violence, bad lan--. Flix s high editing standards . Family Flix became involved guage and sex even if they 're ny's growth strategy despite in October 2002 when the Dibeing involved in a among reasons for entering popular, and we're competing rector's Guild count ersued and into the partnership with the legal battle with the Director's against companies that do." Guild of America and several named several parties like He believes there are many company. "They also have a aeanFHcks that it considered movie editing companies that rating system that rates movies Hollywood directors. At issue is whether edited are too permissive, lack consis- on a onetof our scale in terms to be involved in movie-editin- g movie suppliers such as Family tent editing standards and "edit of violence, nudity and lanactivities, said Mark Wright, Flix are violating copyright movies accor ding to the Family Fix's intellectual propguage.", .v" laws by altering an artist's revenues." Famfiy Flix also plans, in a erty attorney in Arizona. The That's why Famiry Fix was work and distributing it for lawsuit is soil pending. few weeks, to launch a new . The lawsuit hasn't slowed Web site, www Jatterday-formed, said Sandy Teraci profit. That's a battle that ignited when OeanFbcks of Richard's wife and company us down. Instead, it brought tunes.com, which provides more awareness that there are "We felt if we really "clean" hip-ho-p and rap music LLC, a company with several licensees in Utah, Colwanted to make a difference , as well as favorite LDS songs orado and Idaho, filed suit ' ; ; by creating a truly famfly-wor-ththat could be used as ring tones there," Teraci said. " He considers Utah to be one against the Director's Guild in onceDphones. product, we had to futer 3 n ft If " s . 35,000-square-fo- ot ij ; Cracker Barrel agreed Thursday to pay NASHVILLE, Term. $8.7 million to settle allegations the restaurant chain mistreated black customers and discriminated against black employees. 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The search can then be analyzed by a patent attorney to determine which features of ; the invention are more likely to be patentable. . , ' Complati patent daims. A patent includes a detailed description of the invention, followed by a series of riumbered patent claims covering the protectable parts of the invention. Anything disclosed in the detailed description, but not properly claimed, is generaHydedi- - In v catedibthepubifcoomain. The significant of each fea- -, ture of an invention must be discussed carefully between inventors and their patent attorneys, so tjiat the invention can be claimed properly. ' '"'X " PatMaiidnaOncea -Patent No. 6,75594. ; To obtain a copy . X: Copies of patents are avail' able for $3 each, by mail; U.S; Patent and Trademark Office, Box 9 (Copy Sales), Washington, D.C 20231; by credit card: via telephone or facsim- v' . -- (703-308-97- patent is granted, each unit of the invention should be marked with the word "patent" or the arjfcreviarion "pat," together 4 with the patent number. For example: US. Patent No, 5,71547. Failure to provide proper patent marking may prevent patent: ; hoklerafranooOectingdam-- . ages from an infringer. Patent r. marking on product literature v and advertising abo is wise, es- -, pecialry if directiy marking the ile or (ptcsuspto.gov). Patents also can be viewed and printed free of charge from several Internet sites, including V www.uspto.gov, "brat Karl R. Cannon Patent Review : ' r , Self propelled belt loader. A conveyer belt is mounted to vehicles for use in loading items A. on aircraft. Jack Ehveu, Eagle, .Mountain. Filed Oct 22, 200L, ; IuveutMD is Impractical. Patent No. 6,75596. ' . r Vinyl Fence system with ; .variable position rafl. The fence Patent K;3hIJsht$-- " system includes a multipositiaD . Patents granted June 29: '! ' rail that can be used in various y Horse trailer. The tracer is ' i : positions in constructing differdesigned to provides protection ent fence designs. Ronald R. , West, Alpine, and two non-to- - ' against injury to horses tied to , cal inventors. a side of the trailer. Nancy Assigned to Krov Building Products, Inc. May, Nepht Filed June 24, ' Filed Oct 8, 2002. 2002. Patent No. 6,755,155. York, .; -- ; . . . , " ' 1 rb. www.delphion.com (formerly : www.patents.ibm.com). This column Is intended as ' general information only and not as legal advice. Always ' . . . consult an attorney. ?. Cliff Vaterlaus of Clayton, ' Howarth & Cannon con- tributed to this column. ? "s ' I Karl R. Cannon is a partner in the Salt Lake area law firm of Clayton, Howarth & Cannon, P.C He may be contacted at by at kcannonchcpat.com, or |