You may or may not remember, around a year ago Apple was forced to switch off the push email function of its iCloud service in Germany. The reason being that Google/Motorola was suing Apple for infringing on its patented technology. It secured an injunction against Cupertino, forcing Apple to switch it off. Good news for the short term at least:…
Patent hoarder, Access, has announced that Apple and itself have agreed a deal to license some $10 million (1 billion Yen) worth of patents, many of which were formerly owned by Palm/PalmSource. Although it’s not exactly clear what exactly these patents cover, even reading the original news post over at MacoTakara in poorly translated English is enough…
Steve Jobs famously promised to patent absolutely everything after losing a high-profile legal battle in the mid-noughties. Sure enough, Apple stuck to his word, and virtually everything you see from Apple, be it hardware or software has a patent applied for it. One of the most contentious was the “rubber-banding” patent which the company has used…
Apple patents pop up every week, but very few come close to the sheer awesomeness of the idea behind the one showing up online today. This iPhone patent shows what our favorite fruit company is thinking regarding the use of curved glass and flexible displays. What you’re looking at in the image above is an iPhone which is rounded, seamless piece of…
You have to hand it to her, Judge Lucy Koh is certainly not cutting corners, despite the fact that she’d more than likely sick of the site of Apple and Samsung’s legal teams. She presided over the huge $1B patent case in the summer, and is still the judge in charge as the two companies seek to finalize the suit. Recently, she dropped the $1 billion…
Back in 2009, Nokia and Apple were seemingly bitter enemies involved in a patent infringement lawsuit. Fast forward four years, and the Finnish tech giant has now moved alongside Apple in a bid to get infringing Samsung devices banned in the US. Following the $1 billion decision against Samsung for infringing on Apple’s design patents, Cupertino had…
Virtually everyone on the planet is now aware of the huge battle going on between Samsung and Apple. It’s fair to say, it’s been going on a while. And, although Apple has seen some success in the States, it’s not had the same fortune internationally. In the UK it was forced to write an apology stating that Samsung’s Tab was not a copy of the iPad. In…
Since smart watches started hitting the scene a couple of years back, it’s been presumed that Apple would surely enter the market. The rumors have become ever stronger in the light of KickStarter backed projects like MetaWatch and Pebble. In the minds of many tech heads, this opportunity is too cool for Cupertino to miss. The latest patent…
It seems like there’s a new patent discovered every day by AppleInsider/PatentlyApple. The latest – filed in October 2012 – was published by the USPTO this morning. The “image capturing device having continuous image capture” patent essentially seeks to bring an end to “blurrycam” images. The way it works sounds quite simple, and it will be to the…
Apple has just received two design patents from he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; one for the nearly two year old Newsstand icon, and the other for the long-gone 4th generation iPod. The design patent for the 4th-gen iPod comes around nine years after the device’s first introduction, in 2004. Apple’s range of iPods is one of the biggest reasons for…
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