All the stories tagged with patents
Samsung Patent Hints At Smartphone With Curved Display
05/09/2013, Samsung was granted 20 new design patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, these patents were related to designs for smartphones that might see the light of day in the future. One of the designs mentioned in these patents [...]
Apple Curved Batteries Patents Hint At New Designs For Mobile Devices
05/02/2013, Apple has filed a couple of patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to the new battery designs it is working on. The designs aren’t exactly conventional, Apple’s patents describe “Curved battery cells for portable electronic devices” and [...]
Samsung Infringes Crucial Part Of Apple Patent, Says ITC
04/07/2013, In a preliminary decision, a judge of the International Trade Commission said that Samsung is infringing a very crucial part of a patent held by Apple, by adding text-selection feature in its devices which include both tablets and smartphones. This could [...]
Apple’s New Patent Allows Access To Apps From Lockscreen
04/04/2013, Apple has filed for a new patent today. The technology described in the patent is interesting to say the least, and it could make for a very good feature in any future iOS firmware update. Basically the idea is to [...]
Apple’s Slide To Unlock Patent Invalidated By German Court
04/04/2013, The Federal Patent Court of Germany has invalidated all claims of Apple’s slide to unlock patent, and rules that none of the 14 amendments that Apple has suggested for salvaging the patent are valid. A bench of five judges, headed [...]
President Obama Criticizes Patent Trolls
02/17/2013, President Obama lashed at the Patent Trolls during his Google+ Hangout and said that his administration’s attempts at patent reforms had only gone about half way of where they should have been. In response to an entrepreneur, who raised concerns [...]
Apple Proposes Patent To End Blurry iPhone Photos
02/14/2013, Folks who wander around the US Patent Office (USPTO) website have discovered a patent application from Apple that describes a technique used to avoid having blurry photos. Named “Image capturing device having continuous image capture”, the idea is to have [...]
Blackberry Files Patent For A 180-Degree Hinge
02/14/2013, Blackberry in a bid to redesign their phones has applied for a 180-degree hinge patent. The patent comes at a time when flip phone form factor has taken a back seat with designers. Blackberry has been known to experiment with [...]
Apple’s patent applications reveal internal fans for mobile devices and dual-mode speakers
11/08/2012, Apple’s A6 processor, as noted in our iPhone 5 review, is already proven to be two times faster than its predecessor, thanks to its dual-core processor. But as the clock speed is increased, processors tend to get hotter due to [...]
Apple Awarded Patent For Touchscreen Maps Interface
10/30/2012, Apple may have only ditched Google Maps in the most recent version of iOS, but the interface has been Apple-driven for a long time. Apple just recieved a patent for a “touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for [...]
Key Apple Patent Used Against Samsung Has Been Declared Invalid
10/24/2012, Remember that $1 billion decision that Samsung violated Apple’s patents? One of the patents in question, the famous “rubber banding” or “physical inertia” patent, has been completely nullified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Samsung informed Judge Koh earlier this [...]
Jury foreman in $1.05 billion Samsung v. Apple case has a serious conflict of interest
10/03/2012, Samsung filed over a dozen exhibits in court today in its effort to get the $1.05 billion verdict against it thrown out. Several of Samsung’s post-trial arguments are trivial, but the most notable concerns the jury foreman Velvin Hogan, who [...]
HTC 4G patents brought up against Apple are probably valid, says US Judge
09/10/2012, Apple recently won a landmark victory against Samsung when a U.S. court decided that Samsung must pay the company $1 billion in damages. However, this doesn’t mean that there is an end in sight for the patent wars. Rather, Samsung [...]
