Monthly Archives: July 2012

Wireless push email inventor strikes patent deal with all big players

Samsung, Apple, Motorola, HTC but also Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the big American carriers will start paying for a license to use wireless email patents by patent troll NTP. The original inventor Tom Campana died well before the first deal … Continue reading

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Galaxy SIII crippled in the US to avoid clash with Apple patent

The universal search, the possibility to search on Google and your own phone in one go, has been removed last night from American SIII´s. An early move by Samsung to avoid a sales ban request by Apple which claims to … Continue reading

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Apple ´cool´ but a copycat, says UK High Court: design patent fails

#AppleCool will no doubt be trending today as blogs jump on these two sentences in an important High Court verdict in the UK. The real thing however is not the ´coolness´ but the blow to Apple that its design patents … Continue reading

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Oh no, after patenting the rectangle Apple now got the wedge shape!

No kidding. The US patent office has given them ´CLAIM The ornamental design for an electronic device, as shown and described´ see pic below. So every ultrabook manufacturer now needs to tread carefully because Apple didn´t specify anything more than … Continue reading

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Apple Loses “Slide-to-Unlock” Patent in Britain: Now What?

Apple lost its court case claiming a patent on the unlocking method. The judges accepted that an old 2005 Neonode phone, a Swedish ‘smartphone’ with a sort of touch interface used the swipe to unlock the phone feature identical to … Continue reading

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