All the stories tagged with: patent
HTC And Nokia Patent Claim Dismissed By German Court
04/24/2013, HTC has had it pretty rough in the past few days, and thankfully, they are able to participate in a breather of sorts when a judge in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, threw out a patent claim which had [...]
ITC: Motorola Patent Not Infringed By iPhone
04/22/2013, It was earlier this morning when the legal eagles over at Apple managed to score another victory over Motorola, Google’s subsidiary, concerning an alleged patent infringement. The thing is, the ITC ruled in favor of Apple, and this marks a [...]
HTC Patent Reveals Smartphone With Dual Displays
04/17/2013, While the Kyocera Echo was an interesting phone, sort of like the Nintendo DS or Android smartphones, we guess it never really took with customers. Interestingly though, it seems that at one point in time HTC did consider something similar [...]
Google Patent Allows Camera Settings To Change Dynamically Based On GPS And Weather
04/01/2013, Google recently filed for an application with the USPTO, where this application is meant for a “Device, System and Method for Image Capture Device using Weather Information”. Sounds like a mouthful, but when you decide to break it down, it [...]
Google Project Glass Patent Gets Part Deux
02/24/2013, Google’s Project Glass is certainly an experiment that will bear fruit sometime later this year, and hopefully, it will be ready for the mass market at the upcoming Google I/O conference that will be held this May. Having said that, [...]
Future iPads Could Come With Laser Keyboard According To Patent
02/05/2013, We’re sure you guys have come across iPhone concept videos which shows the iPhone projecting a laser keyboard onto the table, making typing a much more comfortable experience compared to the cramped virtual one. While it seemed like a mere [...]
Apple Patent Scales Content According To Face Distance
11/15/2012, Apple and patents go hand-in-hand, especially when you consider how the company intends to have a monopoly on design in their recent court tussle with Samsung. Having said that, it seems that Apple has a rather interesting take on viewing [...]
Apple agrees to pay Motorola for licensing its patents, but only if it doesn’t cost them more than $1 per iPhone
11/01/2012, As some of you guys are aware by now, Apple is embroiled in a legal dispute with various companies over alleged patent infringement, with some accusing Apple of infringing on their patents, while Apple is alleging that other companies are [...]
Apple seeks to ban 8 Samsung phones
08/28/2012, It looks like Apple intends to fully press their advantage in the recent court ruling which favored Apple over Samsung, where the latter was ordered to pay the former whopping $1 billion in damages. Well, the latest word from Apple [...]
Google Patent Indicates Slider Keyboard for next Nexus Smartphone?
04/30/2012, A patent application that was filed by the online search giant Google brings about the speculation that either the next or an upcoming Nexus device will have a slide-out keyboard. The patent filing contained the name of Android chief Andy [...]
Sony Patent Suggest Xperia Play with Dual Keyboards
04/30/2012, A patent that was filed back in 2010 got the green light from the folks over at the USPTO with regards to plans for a Xperia Play like phone with two different keyboards; one QWERTY-based and the other being a [...]
Samsung Registers Even More Galaxy Names
04/02/2012, Samsung has gone crazy over the last couple of months filing trademarks for potential names for various devices, some of which carry the prefix ‘Galaxy’ belonging to additions to Samsung’s successful range of Galaxy devices. Recently, we have seen the [...]
Samsung Request to Trademark 3 More Galaxy Names
03/28/2012, Talk Android (via Phandroid) spotted three requests for name trademarks made by Samsung. The names most recently spotted are Galaxy Accelerate, Galaxy Express and Galaxy Thunder. While there is a tiny chance that Samsung could imitate Apple’s actions with going [...]
