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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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Patent company Rambus, now well known for the many court actions it has filed against a variety of IT players, has once again taken it upon itself to sue IBM over alleged patent infringement, even though the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) already issued a ruling in the latter's favor.Rambus is known f... |
25 August 2010
05:45 GMT |
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NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent litigation for a while, but the verdict given by the ITC late last month seems to have finally tipped the scales, giving Rambus an apparent advantage that appears to have persuaded NVIDIA to license some of its patents, though the licensing company still hasn't dro... |
13 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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An SEC filing reveals that Apple has struck a deal with Delaware-based Liquidmetal Technologies to obtain rights for using patented Liquidmetal materials, which could end up in future iPods, iPhones and other Apple products that rely on strong, durable casings. The Baltimore Sun was tipped off yesterday by Jay Rickey... |
10 August 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Nowadays, Rambus is mostly known for the many legal disputes it is involved in, the most notable of which is the one against NVIDIA. Still, such lawsuits would not exactly sprout if the licensing company didn't actually have the patents to show for it. Seemingly in order to prove this, the company has come forth... |
28 July 2010
09:29 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent infringement lawsuit for quite a few months now. This legal battle is centered around Rambus' claim that certain products that the GPU maker has on sale, such as graphics, media and applications processors, infringe several of its patent... |
27 July 2010
05:21 GMT |
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eBay has been sued for quite a hefty sum by a company claiming that six of its patents are being infringed upon by PayPal and other eBay subsidiaries. The patents have to do with online payments systems and XPRT Ventures, the US company in question, claims that eBay stole information about the patents and incorporate... |
14 July 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Google Maps is about to get some smoother and more feature-rich navigational controls, according to a patent application uncovered by Go Rumors. The application details a patent filing for an “Embedded Navigation Interface” for Google Maps. It describes fine-grained controls for rotating, zooming and 360 ... |
28 June 2010
11:08 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple reportedly filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation. According to Apple, HTC infringes some more of its patents related to the user interface on its mobile devices. The suit was filed with the Delaware Court, the same as the first law ... |
24 June 2010
03:21 GMT |
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There has been a string of funny, dubious or just plain mind-boggling patent grants and, unfortunately, there’s no sign of the trend stopping anytime soon. Amazon has just been granted a patent for a “Social Networking System.” And it’s exactly what it sounds like, the description of the paten... |
17 June 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has agreed to pay the VirnetX Holding Corporation no less than $200 million in order to license intellectual property that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas had found it was infringing on. With the two companies now having settled their patent-infringement cases, both lawsuits would ... |
17 May 2010
08:43 GMT |
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HTC Corporation, the manufacturer of a number of popular smartphones running Google’s Android operating system, has countersued Apple over the infringements of five patents. The move comes as a response to Apple’s original suit filed in March against HTC for violating over 20 of the iPhone maker’s ... |
13 May 2010
08:09 GMT |
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Generally, lawsuits filed on patent grounds claim that parts of a product infringe on one or more inventions. Not the suit filed by NetAirus Technologies against Apple Inc., in which the former claims the entire iPhone concept is infringing on one of its patents. Frankly, pretty much every smartphone out there fits t... |
5 May 2010
05:38 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time before yet another battle on the legal front of the IT industry occurred. Nowadays, quite a number of companies are locked in legal action against one another, regardless of their status and popularity. Whatever such players start arguing over, the litigations can last for years. Still, t... |
3 May 2010
05:53 GMT |
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After being sued by Kodak over imaging-related patents, Apple has sued back with its own patent-related suit, which the Mac maker filed just last week with the US International Trade Commission. On the ITC 337 Law Blog, a post reports that the ITC has agreed to look into Apple’s complaint, which alleges that Ko... |
20 April 2010
08:33 GMT |
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It seems that the legal department at hardware manufacturer and videogame developer Nintendo can't get a quiet week. Just as the company reported winning one court case linked to patent infringement, another one, IA Labs, has filed a court case against both Nintendo Japan and Nintendo of America.IA Labs claims t... |
19 April 2010
02:54 GMT |
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There have been many lawsuits and court meetings in the IT industry over the years, some big, some small and some still going on, as it is the case with the NVIDIA-Intel and NVIDIA-Rambus showdowns. As such, hearing of yet another patent-infringement war breaking out all of a sudden might not come as a big surpri... |
10 April 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Rambus seems to be one of those firms that go through all life experiences at once. On the one hand, it unveiled a new patent for mobile XDR memory and even got $900 million for signing a license agreement with Samsung back in January. On the other hand, the licensing company is locked in a legal battle with NVIDIA, ... |
1 April 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Skies may look like they're clearing for NVIDIA, now that the GPU maker is finally getting around to launching its DirectX 11 graphics cards. However, not all clouds seem ready to disperse, as the patent litigations with Rambus are still very much alive and kicking. In fact, back in January, the International Tr... |
26 March 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is looking for more ways to make gamers buy videogames their friends are interested in playing. A new patent granted to the company that manufactures the Xbox 360 and also has a presence in PC gaming through Games for Windows can help translate social pressure into a revenue stream.The software giant has pa... |
22 March 2010
09:39 GMT |
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While everyone else is left scratching their heads, Amazon and its lawyers are patting themselves on the back. The company has managed to (re)confirm a patent for 1-Click, a method of buying stuff online with, you guessed it, just one click. And that's it, that's all there is to it. If you deploy a system t... |
11 March 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Sometime between 2003 and 2006, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and Co-founder and chairman Bill Gates visited Sun Microsystems. It wasn’t a courtesy visit, according to Jonathan Ian Schwartz, Former CEO of Sun Microsystems. The Microsoft duo were on a mission to convince Scott McNealy, Sun&rsqu... |
10 March 2010
10:40 GMT |
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On February 3rd, 2010, Apple sued Taiwan-based smartphone manufacturer HTC for infringing on patents that related to the iPhone’s user interface, as well as its underlying architecture and hardware. Apple filed the lawsuit with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court in Delawar... |
4 March 2010
03:24 GMT |
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Last week was patent week, apparently, as both Facebook and Google were granted some pretty important patents. Facebook got a patent for its News Feed, certainly a useful one to own as a social network, and Google got a patent for location-based advertising, which could prove a very lucrative market in the coming yea... |
2 March 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Facebook managed to secure a patent for its 'news feed' in the US earlier this week. The patent covers the way activities and updates are ranked and displayed in the news feed. It isn't exactly clear what the patent focuses on or what Facebook plans to do with it. It's clear, though, that Facebook... |
26 February 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Apple has been granted a patent for inventing a “multipoint touchscreen,” a touch panel featuring a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time, at distinct locations. Such a screen would produce distinct signals representative of... |
17 February 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab, one of the leading security software vendors in the world, has patented a hardware-based antivirus solution in the United States. The device is supposed to scan all data passed from the hard disk to the CPU and RAM, blocking any malicious code it detects.The hardware antivirus device covered by patent ... |
15 February 2010
10:41 GMT |
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The more recent episode in the drawn-out legal battle between NVIDIA and Rambus saw the latter win a victory when Judge Theodore Essex with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said NVIDIA infringed three Rambus patents. However, in a separate proceeding, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is takin... |
27 January 2010
03:32 GMT |
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While Rambus has been winning legal battles against Samsung and NVIDIA, other companies are filing complaints of their own against their rivals from other countries. One such company is Toshiba, which has filed not one but two different patent-infringement suits against Wistron, the world's third-biggest contrac... |
25 January 2010
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Rambus lost a fight against the GPU maker back in late October, when the U.S. Patent Office decided that the former's claims that NVIDIA had violated its patents were groundless. While this development reinforced NVIDIA's confidence that it would win, Rambus was not deterred. Now, just after the latter stuf... |
23 January 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Those keeping a close eye on the activity on the International Trade Comission website have spotted a notice of complaint from Apple posted on Friday without any detail. The Mac maker has reportedly asked the International Trade Commission to ban the import of Nokia's phones in the U.S, in a move responding to N... |
18 January 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Often, companies will sign cross-patent agreements in order to push their technologies forward or to simply settle certain patent-infringement lawsuits, legal actions that emerge between competing companies. Two technology corporations that are eager to build more and better technologies are Eastman Kodak Company and... |
11 January 2010
09:06 GMT |
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It has been revealed that, in its December 29 filing with the International Trade Commission (ITC), Nokia seeks an immediate injunction that would ban the import of every Apple mobile product from the MacBook to the iPhone for infringing its patents. More particularly, the Finnish cell-phone maker seeks to ban Apple... |
5 January 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Even though Intel was the main target of legal battles during the past year, it seems that its long-time rival, AMD, was sued itself in the 11th hour of 2009. The plaintiff, in this case, is Richtek Technology Corp. The chip designer filed a lawsuit against Advanced Micro Devices and four other companies, through whi... |
4 January 2010
07:05 GMT |
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In what has turned into a complete fiasco, Nokia has again slammed Apple, this time filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its portables, including the iPhone, iPods, and even its computers. Apple previously respon... |
30 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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A document attesting Apple’s ownership of the iSlate.com domain has been dug up by the people at MacRumors, who call this more than just a big coincidence, referring to the tablet-focused event rumored to take place next month at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Fueling speculation is a rec... |
28 December 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Softpedia has stumbled upon a new Apple patent application describing a “method and apparatus for prolonging battery life of a media player.” Filed with the iPod in mind, “The method includes receiving a plurality of initially configured video settings for viewing a video segment on the media player... |
23 December 2009
05:29 GMT |
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On the last stretch of this year, gaming companies have started thinking outside the box. This has led to some pretty strange ideas and some even stranger patents. Nintendo's Vitality Sensor has been flying around, looking for a friend and it's rumored that it has found it in Wii Relax, and that's not ... |
21 December 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Calling it “Systems and methods for adjusting a display based on the user’s position,” Apple has invented (on paper, for now), an electronic device – a display – that changes its state based on the user's perspective. According to the Mac maker, “The electronic device may incl... |
18 December 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Rambus' situation hasn't exactly been on the rise lately, with its finances seeing consecutive unfavorable quarters and most of its legal issues still alive and well. Arguably, the only real favorable development was finally settling things with the European Commission last week. Still, even though its fina... |
15 December 2009
08:15 GMT |
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