IPNews® – Carfax announced this week that it received a Notice of Allowance for a new patent to assist the insurance underwriting industry.
Carfax data contains over 10 billion records of cars from 34,000 data sources. If granted, the new patent would utilize Carfax’s existing databases to create a “system and method for insurance underwriting
IPNews® – In a year of setbacks for the beleaguered Blackberry manufacturer, Research in Motion was found guilty of patent infringement last week after a three-week trial and a week of jury deliberations.
The decision, handed down last Friday in the Northern District of California, resulted in an award of $147.2 million in damages, approximately
IPNews® – Apple was recently awarded a patent for its noise-canceling iPhone cases, which incorporate a “windscreen” that reduces wind or any other background noises that may affect call quality.
According to the patent application, originally filed in January 2011, the case will be formed from plastic, acrylic, polycarbonate, silicon, or rubber, and the screen
IPNews® – The patent for Microsoft’s latest rendition of its famous Xbox was recently published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The look and feel of the new Xbox will be closer to a desktop computer with the addition of two smaller gaming consoles that are combined for single use and an upgradeable
IPNews® – Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has two patents for its K-Cup technology expiring in September 2012.
However, despite the dire predictions of industry experts that there will be a glut of cheap K-Cup imitations in the marketplace soon, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters claims that its filters have since been replaced with newer technology. The
IPNews® – Apple was awarded a patent this week for a head-mounted display device that projects an image in front of the viewer’s eyes and is designed to enhance and augment reality.
Patent number 8,212,859, designed to compete with Google’s new Google Glass, could be incorporated into a helmet, glasses or a visor. The newly
IPNews® – Yahoo and Facebook both released statements this week that they have agreed to drop their patent infringement litigation and license patented technology to each other.
The initial lawsuit, filed in March 2012, alleged that Facebook infringed on multiple important Yahoo patents and was followed by a counterclaim by Facebook also alleging patent infringement.
IPNews® – Apple and its subsidiary based in Shanghai were recently served with a lawsuit for patent infringement by Zhizhen Network Technology, also based in Shanghai.
Zhizhen, a voice application developer, is accusing Apple of using its patent for “a type of instant messaging chat bot system” in its iPhone 4S. According to Zhizhen, the
IPNews® – According to a recent study from Boston University, patent trolls are costing United States companies billions of dollars a year in damages and court costs.
The study, conducted by two Boston University professors, investigated the impact of non-practicing entities, or patent trolls, on business. Some argue that patent trolls are funneling money away
IPNews® – Qualcomm, the world’s leading cellphone chipmaker, has recently announced its plan to form a fully owned subsidiary in an effort to protect its patents.
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (QTI), Qualcomm’s newest addition, will include the services, product, and semiconductor divisions as well as its research and development. Meanwhile Qualcomm Incorporated will handle the majority