IPNews® – After a 6 year wait, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was finally awarded a patent for his invention governing, of all things, privacy settings.
Patent number 8,225,376 covers technology that enables Facebook users to customize the way their profile appears to other users. The patent was originally rejected for being obvious, but after much
IPNews® – Jury selection begins today in the Apple v. Samsung, iPad v. Galaxy, patent war.
With Apple scoring a victory in the European Union, and Samsung scoring a similar victory in the United Kingdom, the decision in the U.S. could clearly go either way. Check out a very interesting article by Martha C. White
IPNews® – This week, Apple announced that it has been granted an injunction in the European Union against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7.
German Courts determined that Samsung had copied Apple’s 2004 designs and consequently banned distribution of the Galaxy Tab 7.7. However, Samsung obtained a very different outcome in a case decided in the
IPNews® – Apple recently announced that it has been granted 25 new patents, including one that is being described as the “mother of all smartphone patents”.
The most important of the recent patents is patent number 8,223,134 which covers the graphical interfaces that Apple designed for use with its iPhone and other multi-touch applications. The
IPNews® – Titan Medical announced this week that it has been granted a patent for a snaking robotic arm with moveable shapers.
Patent number 8,224,485 applies to technology designed to assist medical professionals with surgical procedures that might create a high degree of risk, or might not otherwise be possible. The newly patented technology cements
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