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It seems that before the Nintendo-made Wii U home console and its tablet-like touchscreen controller became a reality at the 2011 edition of the E3 trade event, rival Sony was thinking of creating a similar device and even filled a patent for it back during 2010.
The Sony incarnation of the idea was called “Po... |
6 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Embroiled in a patent dispute with Apple, Kodak recently filed for bankruptcy, but Apple has asked the court to bar Kodak from obtaining loans, arguing that the disputed patents actually belong to them.
Submitted to the US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York last week, the filing reveals that Kodak... |
23 January 2012
05:05 GMT |
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After accusing Apple Inc. of infringing on two of its patents relating to multi-touch technologies, Elan Microelectronics Corp. will receive 5$ million in compensation from the Cupertino tech giant, as well as access to a number of patented inventions of the Mac maker.
In June, last year, the U.S. International Trad... |
5 January 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has just been granted a huge patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, which covers the creation of a device that can function both as a games console as well as a digital video recorder (DVR).
Microsoft wants to turn its current Xbox 360 into a true entertainment hub, offering not just gaming function... |
5 January 2012
05:29 GMT |
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When Google announced that it was working on self-driving cars and that it had been testing the technology for a few years now, few people were not surprised.Still, the technology is very much in the experimental phase and won't become a reality for many years to come. But Google is looking at the long term and ... |
16 December 2011
13:21 GMT |
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One would think that keeping a file in the same condition as when they were first created would forever be one of the greatest assets of personal storage, but IBM thinks it can be a disadvantage, so it got an idea.
IBM came up with an idea for a so-called”aging file system” which maintains “aged ... |
27 November 2011
01:11 GMT |
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Amazon probably knew to expect patent lawsuits when it made the Kindle Fire tablet, but it is unclear if even it expected the device to start being called a music player.
Much to the chagrin of all those who dislike patent trolling, and trolling in general, Personal Audio LLC just filed a suit against Amazon.
Thi... |
24 November 2011
08:14 GMT |
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The gloves are off, or close enough, in the whole Apple-Samsung lawsuit battle, even now, when the two are only in the pre-trial phase of the litigation, stage known as Discovery. Not a day seems to go by without something new reaching the web about the Apple-Samsung patent litigation. Being in the Discovery proc... |
18 November 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Microsoft either made on too many demands, or more than one too many, as Barnes and Noble is none too happy about all its licensing complaints and demands.
This may not have been at the forefront of the patent news bulletins because of how Samsung and Apple have been hogging the attention there, but Barnes and Nobl... |
15 November 2011
05:20 GMT |
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The whole Samsung-Apple debacle is bringing quite a few things to light, such as a so-called informal policy Samsung had in place of overlooking Apple's patent infringements. Samsung and Apple have sued each other ever since Apple began to hound the former's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet with abandon. It is no... |
15 November 2011
04:50 GMT |
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The groundbreaking Kinect NUI (natural user interface sensor) that Microsoft launched almost a year ago to breathe new life into Xbox 360 consoles is protected by a vast dowry of intellectual property, the software giant revealed.
According to the Redmond company, approximately 600 patents have been filled in an ef... |
31 October 2011
08:02 GMT |
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The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Apple the patent for ‘Slide to Unlock’, the gesture-based input method to unlock the screen of an iOS device.Originally implemented in Apple’s mobile operating system when it was called iPhone OS (now iOS), the Slide-to-unlock function ... |
26 October 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Rambus is one of the most infamous patent trolls out there, but it looks like, this once, it was able to rake in some profits without any settlement payments.
Rambus made the news quite a few times last year, and the years before, for how it got into patent litigations with a whole bunch of companies.
As such, it... |
21 October 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Samsung sues Apple in Australia over the latter's alleged infringement of three 3G patents in the making of the iPhone 4S, demanding a ban from Australian stores. Users probably know of the big battle that Apple and Samsung got embroiled in a while ago, after the former sued the latter over the Galaxy Tab. Seein... |
17 October 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Samsung has definitely not been going through the best of times lately, at least as far as its tablet business goes, as Apple might just get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in the US too.
The scuffle between Apple and Samsung has spread more or less around the whole world, as the two have been suing each other in mult... |
15 October 2011
06:43 GMT |
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It wasn't unexpected, it really wasn't, but the fact that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet got sued even before it made it out the door is still an unfortunate reminder of the patent system's shortcomings, new law or not.
Granted, it isn't exactly accurate to say that the new Amazon tablet got... |
11 October 2011
09:16 GMT |
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The new patent system law was passed, but it came many years too late to stop the fund drains that patent trolls managed to cause during the past two decades.
Patent trolling is something that can be seen as particularly jarring to any company that makes and sells any sort of products.
Basically, patent trolls... |
21 September 2011
08:27 GMT |
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The patent system in the US has long been a cause of groans of everything from annoyance to outrage, but at least some of the more aggravating aspects of the system will, hopefully, go away now that the new patent law has been signed.
A little over a week ago, we mentioned that the United States Congress had fina... |
17 September 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Those who felt like patent trolls have been going a bit out of hand may finally have a cause to rejoice and grin now that the US Congress voted in favor of massive changes to USPTO.
The thing about the US patent system is that it is in such a way conceived that it allows for the filing of patents for things that ... |
9 September 2011
05:09 GMT |
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The past few days have mostly been dominated by news coming from the IFA trade show, but there seem to be other things going on, not all of them pleasant, as made clear by WiLAN, or at least its lawyers.
Lawsuits are, ironically, a fairly common occurrence in the IT industry, especially because of the nature of t... |
5 September 2011
08:51 GMT |
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One of the most appealing features that the Windows Phone operating system was launched on the market with last year was its Metro UI, and Microsoft has just been granted a patent for it.
The company filed an application for receiving a patent for the Metro UI under the “Visual motion for user interface fe... |
22 August 2011
01:42 GMT |
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Coming as an affluent to the ever flowing stream of lawsuits on the IT industry is an action against Apple, over a patent originally filed by LG back in the late 20th century, filed by a company based in Florida.There are things that are fairly common on the IT industry and, unfortunately, lawsuits seem to be one of... |
8 August 2011
09:12 GMT |
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A patent application signed Apple Inc. reveals a potential method of cutting out the Apple logo in various products, if not the actual method used by the Mac maker. The application (ID number 20110183580), filed January 25, 2010 with the U.S Patent and Trademark office, explains that various techniques have been emp... |
28 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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A company called Tomita Technology has taken video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo to court over an alleged patent breach that is linked to the glass-free three-dimensional screen that is used on the new Ninendo 3DS handheld. Tomita Technology has said that it has a patent for “Stereoscopic Imag... |
7 July 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Very recently, a huge stash of the soon-to-be-defunct telco Nortel mobile-related patents, over 6,000 of them, came under auction and Google was one of the companies interested in grabbing the patent portfolio.
It opened up the bidding war with an impressive $900 million, but ended up losing to an alliance made u... |
6 July 2011
06:06 GMT |
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The IT industry is one place where lawsuits spring all the time, some of them lasting years, if not decades, and it looks like a fairly long one between three multimedia electronic companies has finally ended.With all the legal battles going on and sprouting up on the IT market, one could say it is a surprise if som... |
2 May 2011
09:25 GMT |
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In yet another case of software patent abuse, Google lost a lawsuit brought against it over its use of the Linux operating system, particularly in its data centers. What should have been an open and shut case, or perhaps something that shouldn't have gone to court in the first place, turned into yet another exam... |
22 April 2011
10:20 GMT |
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A patent has been recently unveiled showing that Nintendo had plans to launch an add-on for the Wii home gaming console that could display colors and lighting that were connected to the video games the player was enjoying. The patent was registered in 2009, which might suggest that the add-on was only in the plannin... |
7 April 2011
03:27 GMT |
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Google is sporting a special logo to celebrate the birthday of famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. The doodle is visible on the main search site as well as on many of its localized versions. While there's nothing special about this doodle, it looks rather nice, resembling a vintage poster, it spells ... |
24 March 2011
11:10 GMT |
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The Android platform and by extension all Android devices are on the wrong side of Microsoft’s intellectual property rights, revealed Horacio Gutierrez, the company’s Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property & Licensing. In the past few years, the software giant poure... |
22 March 2011
10:37 GMT |
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It seems that, when it's not suing companies left and right, Rambus actually does come up with technologies that IT players want to use, as proven by Toshiba, who just signed a five-year agreement with it.No doubt that, in most cases, if an end-users know the name Rambus it is because of the many lawsuits it wa... |
16 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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With chips based on the ARM architecture getting more and more widespread, Fujitsu decided to enlarge its portfolio, so it entered a license agreement with the company in order to gain access to its IP.Those end-users keeping tabs on the IT market may or may not know that Fujitsu and ARM have been collaborating for ... |
28 February 2011
07:28 GMT |
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The inevitable has happened, the MPEG LA is reaching out to stakeholders for the forming of a VP8 patent pool. VP8 is part of WebM, an open video format released by Google. WebM and the VP8 codec come with an open-source license and are supposed to be patent free. However, the licensing group behind VP8's major ... |
12 February 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Since IT companies always have to innovate if they are to stay in business, IBM and Samsung decided it was high time they signed a cross-license pact so that they may both use the other's patent portfolio.License agreements are a common thing on the IT market, and there are even companies that deal exclusively ... |
9 February 2011
03:55 GMT |
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It appears that the long-lasting series of lawsuits on the IT market is not bound to cease any time soon, as Foxconn has begun a legal battle against a certain other company in Taiwan, though the exact goal is not altogether clear. Patent infringement lawsuits have been sprouting up all over the IT industry as far b... |
24 January 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Rambus just announced today that it had renewed its patent license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation, enabling the Japanese company to use Rambus patented innovations in a broad range of its logic integrated circuits.
Hailed as the next big thing in computer memory back in 1999, in the Pentium III day... |
27 December 2010
09:13 GMT |
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It would appear that the holiday lawsuit spree is still very much in effect, as not just one or two, but three high-profile companies have been sued over patent infringement.As odd as it may sound, it would seem that the closer the winter holidays get, the more legal actions sprout up around the world. The acti... |
23 December 2010
04:44 GMT |
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OnLive, the streaming delivery service that is now available on the PC and on the Mac, has secured a patent in the United States linked to cloud-based video game streaming which might put some obstacles in the path of all other companies that are aiming to offer the same service on other devices.
The Unites States... |
17 December 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Microsoft, which makes the Xbox 360 home gaming console and publishes video games for it, has filled a patent which is linked to a new technology that can add a texture layer to traditional touch screens that are already on the market.The patent, which was apparently filed this week, talks about a “light-induce... |
1 December 2010
03:12 GMT |
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It seems that Analysts are under the impression that Intel may have to sign a new agreement with NVIDIA in order to be allowed to use their patents, as its chances of successfully competing against AMD on the market for HPC accelerators may be too low otherwise.With all the so-called 'battles' happening be... |
30 November 2010
04:12 GMT |
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With Novell managing to shell itself to Attachmate for $2.2 billion, or $6.10 per share in a cash transaction, the Linux vendor also penned a deal with CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium that has Microsoft behind it, for a chunk of its intellectual property. There are a lot of questions related to the patent deal betwe... |
25 November 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Attachmate just announced that it would buy Novell for $2.2 billion, or $6.10 per share in a cash transaction, but the fact is that the real news might be in a considerable smaller deal that the Linux vendor inked today. The second agreement announced is with CPTN Holdings LLC, with Novell accepting to sell off some... |
22 November 2010
10:53 GMT |
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It seems that the end-year period can be said to be the time of legal upheaval, as it appears that lawsuits are sprouting up one after another, with Intel, in this case, getting sued for patent infringement.Not long ago, it was revealed that HP was finally getting around to reaching a settlement for some bribery cha... |
16 November 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Microsoft is certainly exploring operating systems beyond Windows, and SafeOS can be added to the list that already contains Midori and Singularity. But in all fairness, SafeOS is not designed as a moniker but rather it serves the purpose of describing the concept of a non-Windows safe operating system, whereas Mido... |
15 November 2010
13:41 GMT |
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved a patent application filed by Apple filed in 2008 which prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages, according to a report.TechCrunch points out to Apple’s patent application filed years ago, noting that it bears the official... |
13 October 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Apple is now known to have patented an ambidextrous mouse capable of sensing which hand the user is working it with, via specialized sensors. The yet-theoretical input device resembles the Magic Mouse in that it lacks buttons.The patent abstract explains, that “The ambidextrous mouse is configured for both left... |
6 October 2010
08:26 GMT |
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Patent litigation is costing companies millions of dollars each year. Companies, big and small, feel they need file an increasing amount patents to protect themselves from lawsuits. At the same time, shady companies have found a good way to make money by hoarding patents and then suing any company they can. Because l... |
30 September 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Patently Apple presented a report concerning what it called a "Telephonic MacBook." Now, the site that covers the most noteworthy patent applications filed by Apple Inc. has dug up two new patents that support a future telephonic Macbook.The source explains that one of the granted patents - "Antenn... |
29 September 2010
08:44 GMT |
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A company going by the name of Multi-Format has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. alleging patent infringement over its invention of the concept of selling and enabling of downloaded video content like movies and HDTV programming on iTunes, a report reveals.A site focused on Apple’s patent applications breaks ... |
22 September 2010
13:29 GMT |
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A recent patent filling from Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan indicates that the company is working on an add on for the PlayStation 3 that will make the platform compatible with video games that have been launched on previous generations of home consoles.The patent was discovered by forum posters in Japan and se... |
15 September 2010
17:01 GMT |
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