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- Apple sues power adapter knockoff maker
- Gah!!!Our patent system is a mess. "I patent supplying 20V DC to your laptop!!! muwahahahahaha!!!!"If you follow the link...backwards about 5 times, you'll find the patent in question:[u]http://www.google.com/patents?id=h7cOAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false[/u]It's a design patent, which covers the [i]look[/i] of the adaptor.Check this out, and see what you think:[u]http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=326&imageID=136&articleID=221901168[/u]I stand correctedOther stuff is still...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Patent Grabber 5.6.1 (Windows)
- Patent Grabber makes it easy to download U.S. patents EP patents and published applications, and PCT published applications for free from public patent archives. Instead of going to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or European Patent Office web site and loading and printing patent or application pages one at...
- Software downloads 2009-09-14
- Apple files patents for object and facial recognition for the iPhone
- MacRumors notes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published "several dozen" patent applications this morning including an interesting one that covers object and facial recognition, messaging, and voice modulation. Unwired View took a closer look at one patent filed on March...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- News to know: Congress; Newser; Apple; VMware; High-speed rail
- Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Intel joins Dell in fight against 'netbook' trademark
- Intel has joined the fight against Psion over the "netbook" trademark, arguing that the public already uses the term in a generic manner to represent "extensions of the notebook category, smaller computers purpose-built for mobile Internet access," according to the Courthouse News Service. Intel also pointed out...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Microsoft awarded 10,000th U.S. patent
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Microsoft its 10,000th U.S. patent for surface computing technology. The invention, U.S. Patent No. 7,479,950, outlines how users can place real objects â€" anything from cell phones to their own fingers â€" on the computer's tablelike display and the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Former Microsoft employee accused of spying
- Microsoft is suing a former employee for applying for his job under false pretenses and using his role at the company to gain access to confidential data related to patent litigation he is now waging, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Miki Mullor was hired by Microsoft in November...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- IBM is U.S. patent king in 2008; first to 4,000 patents
- Talk about a lot of brainpower. IBM said today that it became the first company ever to win more than 4,000 U.S. patents in a single year, citing a new report from research firm IFI Patent Intelligence, Reuters reports. Big Blue said it...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Patent wars: EchoStar cheers reexamination of Tivo patent; Tivo scoffs
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will reexamine the claims of Tivo's "Time Warp" patent--again--at EchoStar’s request. EchoStar, which recently lost a lawsuit against Tivo over the patent, requested the reexamination. Tivo won an injunction against EchoStar and asked the U.S. District Court to hold the satellite...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up
- RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Apple's 3D OS X interface unveiled
- A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make "better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements," according to AppleInsider. The most...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Apple's 3D OS X interface unveiled
- A series of Apple patent filings reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements. The most extensive of the filings, titled "Multi-Dimensional...
- Image galleries 2008-12-11
- File your open source code with Linux Defenders
- All you need do is register your code with the site and the OIN members will get that information to IP.Com, a database the folks at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office themselves use to determine whether something has been invented. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the (TM)
- Feel free to approach a co-worker at the Red Bull station this morning and casually ask: "So, did you do any cloud computing over the weekend?" OK, maybe that ice-breaker won't get you invited to happy hour with the cool crew from HR, but it also won't get you into...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Weight Tracker - set your weight and monitor progress (BB) (Mobile)
- Measuring your weight can help you and your doctor choose the correct diet and/or drug regiment to control such disorders as congestive heart failure. Body weight measured in the doctor's office may be higher than at other times. The use of home scales can more accurately measure one's overall, or...
- Software downloads 2008-03-04
- Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped
- A new website entitled End Software Patents is attempting to galvanize public support to accomplish that goal. Here's the core of their argument: Patents differ from copyright in one key manner: independent invention is a valid defense against claims of copyright...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Big patent law reform on the way?
- Two news stories this week indicate a real change to the patent law may be in the works, eliminating key legal roadblocks to open source and Internet innovation. First, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy tapped out a column in The Washington Times, alongside his Republican counterpart, Orrin Hatch. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data
- The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than 7.9 million full text and drawings of U.S. patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. In addition, Medline, an indexing service for research in medicine and related fields provided by...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
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