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tit for tat | Patent Office Puts Another Nail In An Apple Patent’s Coffin
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has told Apple that it cannot enforce its famous “rubber banding” patent because the feature, as cool as it might be, is not a novel idea. The decision hands Samsung a small victory in ...
wired.com (1 month and 17 days ago)
Samsung's 3G patent ruled invalid in Germany
A patent that Samsung considers essential to the 3G standard was invalidated by the German Federal Patent Court that ruled in favor of Apple.Apple challenged the validity of the patent in suit that describes a technology that relates to a device and method for encoding and decoding channel data in a mobile communication system. The patent was declared invalid in its entirety...
pcworld.com (1 month and 8 days ago)
Apple Loses The Slide To Unlock Patent In Europe
This is an interesting little tale from the near interminable Apple patent wars. And it's an interesting guide to the way that patent laws really are not the same the world over. For it appears that a German court has invalidated Apple's slide to unlock patent: The Bundespatentgericht (federal patent court) in Munich ruled that the famous patent is invalid because European...
forbes.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
Apple Will Lose Friends And Markets With Its Patent Strategy
Overlooked in the persistent rumors around a new iPhone launch, the US Patent Office yesterday denied Apple most its patent claims on the rubber banding effect on the iPhone. In total the Patent Office rejected 17 claims in the patent but approved three. That follows an earlier decision that rejected all 20.
forbes.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
USPTO Rejects Apple's 'Bounce Back' Patent (Again)
The U.S. Patent Office has once again rejected the validity of Apple's "bounce back" patent, but as Apple noted in a follow-up filing, the decision it not yet final.
pcmag.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
Apple iWatch Coming This Year: Report
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The speculation surrounding the Apple iWatch is increasing by the day. Now we have a report that it could come as soon as this year. Citing people familiar with Apple's plans, Bloomberg reports the Apple-branded watch could arrive in 2013. According to the report, Apple has filed at least 79 patent applications which have the word wrist in it,...
thestreet.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
Apple slide-to-unlock patent gets invalidated by a German court
It seems Apple is going to lose its slide-to-unlock gesture patent, at least in the EU, since a German court has declared it invalid. Everything started last year when Apple won an injunction against Motorola Mobility and attempted to ban the sales of certain devices. Encouraged by its victory Apple tried to sue Samsung over the same technology, but the case was suspended...
gsmarena.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
Could Apple Lose The Patent To Siri?
This is a slightly worrying turn up for the books at Apple. They're being sued over the patent to Siri in China. And the case does seem to have some legs: A Chinese court has heard claims that Apple's Siri personal assistant infringes a patent owned by a local firm that makes similar voice-activated software for both iOS and Android, in just the latest setback for Cupertino...
forbes.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Does Apple's 'used content' patent spell disaster for the marketplace?
Apple has filed a patent for a system allowing people to resell or loan their digital content. The newly-revealed applications, lodged in 2011 and 2012, mean it could be possible for music, eBooks, films and games to be passed on to friends and loved ones without them having to buy their own copy.A similar patent was granted to Amazon back in January, though it restricts...
techradar.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
ITC: Samsung Feature Infringes on Apple Patent
Samsung was issued a setback this week in its patent battle with Apple, when the International Trade Commission (ITC) found that the Korean phone maker infringes on an Apple patent by using a text-selection feature in its devices.
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