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- Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection
- Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detectionAre we for or against patents this week?I can never remember whether this is the week that we are for patents or if this is the week we are against patents. Or was our feeling towards patents more based on the...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection
- A patent application filed by Apple in February 2008 for multi-touch display screen with localized tactile feedback indicates that the company is researching haptic feedback for possible inclusion in the iPhone and iPod touch. Most telling is a line in the application about the competitive advantages of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Nintendo wins Wii patent case
- Wii-maker touts early dismissal of infringement suit regarding parental controls on DVD video playback...which the Wii doesn't have. This is just one of 15-patent-related suits. Since the launch of the Wii, Nintendo has been the subject of no fewer than 15 patent-related lawsuits. While many of those suits are...
- News items 2009-06-12
- Apple patent details iPhone media sharing
- Apple patent details iPhone media sharinglooks like an IM featureif you replace the phone with the IM messanger on your desktop, you'll see that this is nothing new.Just what we need, another BS patent.This isn't something new. Several IM, SoftVoIP and Vid Conference packages offer similar functions (Whiteboard, WinddowShare, deskshare,...)...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Apple patent details iPhone media sharing
- Ever wish that you could share the music or video that you're enjoying on your iPhone with the person on the other end of the phone? Today, that would require hanging up and emailing the person a music or video file then calling them and attempting to watching them in...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Supreme Court to hear patent case with broad implications
- Weather-based risk in commodities trading. Is that too abstract for a patent? Maybe not. While the question may seem arcane, it actually has big import for high-tech. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the patent on the so-called business method patent because it...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Germany Patents PDF Downloader 1.12 (Windows)
- Germany Patents PDF Downloader makes it easy to download PDF copies of Germany patents. Users can download up to 20 copies one time no limit for super version. Both English and German version are available. Version 1.12 adds a timer to control download.
- Software downloads 2009-05-21
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement
- Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringementPretty frivolous patent hereAbout on the level of Microsoft's Page Up/Page Down patent.Live by the patent sword, die by the patent swordMicrosoft are 'disappointed' that once again they have been caught out stealing other people's ideas, incorpoarting those ideas into their own branded...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademark
- Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademarkSo now...The Russian Mafia can turn up your heat. Cool!RE: Microsoft files 'magic wand' trademarkYou know the Intergalatic Union of Fairy Princesses will not be pleased to read this...and you don't want to get them pissed off! :DLearning from Apple?I wonder who will...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Google Books powered by patented scanning technology
- Google Books powered by patented scanning technologyPossibly not unique, eitherI find it odd that the Google "technology" is getting treated as if it were totally unique.Xerox has been using software and hardware to basically do the same things - scan books, recognize the text curvatures and deskew the result, performing...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Microsoft sends mixed patent message
- Microsoft sends mixed patent messagesame oldplain unsubstantiated M$ FUD.RE: Microsoft sends mixed patent messageThe message seems pretty clear. Its basically telling linux to watch its back and that their patents are not just a free for all. Microsoft has spent a lot for R&D on patents and its...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Google wins floating data center patent
- Google wins floating data center patentDoes it really make sense?Surely the economical and ecological cost of building and maintaining the ships to house all these would outwiegh the savings?Why collocate the data centres - we have extensive electrical grids to pump power from point of generation to point of use...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Google wins floating data center patent
- Google has been awarded a U.S. patent for its floating data centers that are powered by waves and cooled by sea water. The patent award was spotted first by SEO by the Sea. As noted previously, the floating data center idea is quite novel and makes a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents
- The Open Invention Network is making good on its pledge to try to overturn the Linux-related patents that were contained in Microsoft's recently settled litigation against TomTomNV. OIN announced today that three patents in the lawsuit -- including those the deal with the creation of long and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- The Microsoft defense brief
- The Microsoft defense briefDoes fit the known factsBut it doesn't sound much like a defense. RE: The Microsoft defense briefI don't think your description of Matt Asay's response is accurate; it was not an incendiary as you indicate. Asay has been exploring two themes the past few...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-11
- HP files appeal in Cornell patent dispute case
- Hewlett Packard said today that it has filed an appeal in a patent dispute case with Cornell University and the Cornell Research Foundation. Statement Last month, the U.S. District Court reduced the amount that an earlier jury imposed from $184 million to $53 million in favor of...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Microsoft patent loss: It's about activation not validation
- Microsoft patent loss: It's about activation not validationWhy notMicrosoft sueing the Patents Troll for a completly uneffective.Windows WGA is most pathetic and easy to bypass illegal DRM evermade.Live by the bogus software patent lawsuit . . . . . . die by the bogus software patent law suit.Conficker 'Windows' patents...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent
- Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patentThat was my first reaction tooBut then I saw this case went all the way back to 2003. I figure somewhere it would have been tossed in the six years hence. A lot of docs were sealed in the case file...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent
- A Rhode Island jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $388 million in damages for infringing on an anti-piracy patent owned by Uniloc, a company that makes software that ensures licensing rights and security. The jury decision almost ends a lawsuit that dates back to September 2003. The...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
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