Tag: Patent
Apple Looking Into No-Code Content Authoring Tool Similar To iBooks Author
In today’s iPad world, creating digital content for your readers pretty much involves owning a degree in computer science, or hiring someone who knows Objective-C...
AOL Sells Its Patent Portfolio To Microsoft
AOL has been in trouble for a long while. At one point, they were the dominant ISP in America. When cable and DSL started to...
Patent Hints That The Mac Could Become Siri’s Slave
According to a new patent making the rounds today, Siri may be about to take the Mac world by storm in the coming months. It...
Fan Remakes Of Avatar Imminent: Apple Patents 3D, Facial Gesturing Recognition Camera
A new patent has surfaced that shows Apple has been working on a killer 3D imaging camera that will use depth detection sensors such as...
DOJ approves The Rockstar Consortium’s purchase of Nortel patents
The United States Department of Justice has just approved Nortel’s patent sale, worth $4.5 billion, to Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, and Ericsson. The consortium, going...
Apple turns off Push services in Germany due to Motorola injunction
Push services from Apple have been disabled in Germany, thanks to a lawsuit from Motorola that ultimately led to an injunction in the country. As it...
Patent reveals Apple is working on better keyboards
Today, a patent filing was published showing Apple’s considerable work on developing keyboards that are thinner and more efficient for future products. Obviously patents aren’t...
Apple tells the EU that it’s time for FRAND licensing changes in the mobile industry
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably realized that there’s been a lot of lawsuits being thrown around in the mobile arena over unapproved patent...
Next point of infiltration: Apple wants to tackle our fitness level with real-time competitions?
Apple seems to always be on the lookout for a new industry to infiltrate. Its latest foray has been the education industry with the release...
German appeals court upholds injunction against Samsung
Today, a German appeals court upheld a decision by a lower court to continue the ban of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9...
Apple patent reveals programmable magnetic power cable
In a very complicated and long post, Patently Apple discusses a few new ground-breaking patents filed by Apple. There’s a lot of interesting things in...
Motorola gets in on the fun and sues Apple over six products
So it seems that the fight is no longer just Apple vs. Samsung. Rather, Motorola Mobility wants to snatch up a piece of legal leverage....
Apple wins patent ruling vs. HTC, could affect all Android phones
The U.S. International Trade Commission handed down a ruling Monday that certain features of HTC’s Android phones infringe upon a patent owned by Apple. The...
Motorola succeeds where Samsung has failed in patent lawsuits against Apple
In a ruling pronounced today by the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany, Motorola Mobility has won an injunction against Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit....
Apple 3D imaging patent is reminiscent of Xbox Kinect
Apple brought touchscreen technology to the masses, but a recent patent suggests they may be moving into a whole new domain of computer interaction. However,...
Turns out, Apple is willing to license certain iOS technologies
You can take that to the bank patent office! Apparently, IBM and Nokia have licensed Apple’s “Scrollback” patent. You know, that patent that gives users...
Steve Jobs gets an exhibit at the USPTO
Steve Jobs is currently being honored at an exhibit in Alexandria, Virginia, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The exhibit consists of 30 giant...
Apple given patent for magnetic securing system, drawings show tablet-like device with magnetic connector
Patently Apple is reporting that Apple has been given the patent for a “magnetic securing system” like what is used in the MagSafe power connector....