According to Lux Research, investors have invested $4.3 billion into the development of sensors over the past ten years. However it’s the pattern of the 28,927 sensor patents that were given since 1975 that actually unveils the value and potential of these patents. Lux Research studied patent trends for five...
When looking towards a big company like Samsung, you keep expecting for crazy things to come out of their R&D centres frequently. A patent to go with them is something that we have seen companies being accustomed, to safeguard their ideas. A recent patent application from Samsung goes hand in...
The technological race is a relentless one. Every manufacturer and software provider on the quest for that unique implementable idea that can capture the consumer mindset and they climb the market share ladder. Now there are a few Samsung patent filings that show what they believe their Gear watches...
Wearable tech is an exciting place to be with tech companies trying their best to innovate the Next best thing. Large retailers like Currys and Best Buy now have dedicated stands for your wearable life. Samsung is spending a lot of money in R&D and has now become the...
According to a patent application at the United States Patent & Trademark Office, Samsung has applied for a patent for what is seen as a "next-generation" dual-OS notebook, which also has a phablet dock. The dual-OS notebook, with the ever important phablet dock, will allow a phablet like the...
Last year fitness devices and trackers really took off. Tech companies saw the opportunity that that the ability to track / monitor fitness had to offer. Samsung have their own fitness tech such as the Gear Fit and Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and the current flagship...
We are all looking for the next thing in tech and manufacturers are not so different from us. Something that is innovative, might catch on, and they can quickly patent !!! In this case Samsung has a new design patent awarded to the company that shows a round smartwatch...
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, you cannot legally patent laws of nature, natural phenomena or abstract ideas. Especially if those abstract ideas are a generic implementation of doing something “on a computer.”In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court invalidated a class of software patents that cover what it...
Every once in a while a company comes along that completely changes the world. Google is one such company, making the Internet accessible and meaningful to billions of people. So is Facebook, which increasingly connects those billions of people. And then there's Apple, which has set the standard for what...
The tangle of patent litigation between two of the world’s top tech companies appears to have just straightened out: Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility have agreed to stop suing each other over smartphone technology and “work together in some areas of patent reform,” Reuters reported Friday.It’s not clear what that...
Your next MacBook might be powered by the sun—at least partially. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published 31 new patents to Apple Inc., some of which could lead to the creation of a truly futuristic computer. According to Patently Apple, which examined the multitude of technologies included in just...
Samsung has announced a new Patent Licensing deal with Google, where both companies will have access to, not only each others existing Patents, but also any Patents that either of them will file over the next ten years that cover "a broad range of technologies and business areas." Google's...
You may worry about the number of horses, cylinders or doors but what really matters isn't under the hood but under the CPU box. Cars will be more of a computer with wheels than even before and software developers are scuttling around to get as many patents as they can...
Google has patented plans for software that learns how you behave on social networks and can automatically generate suggestions for "personalized" reactions to tweets and Facebook posts.Originally noted by the BBC, the ostensible goal of the software is to help users keep up and reply to all the interactions they...
Apple has again bested Samsung in a California patents court, wrenching another $290 million from its Korean rival in a retrial to determine damages from the dramatic showdown the two company's had last year over patent infringement, according to reports. The retrial was set to determine damages Samsung owed Apple after...
This may have been the day that IBM actually started to look desperate.In an update to its S-1 filing prior to its initial public offering some time this week, Twitter somewhat casually revealed that IBM has notified the social media company that it is infringing on three of IBM's patents.The...
Google’s Android operating system may be the rock star of mobile world, but it has another group of rock stars that are trying to knock it from its perch.Google, Samsung, HTC and basically every major Android hardware manufacturer have been hit with a patent lawsuit from the Rockstar Consortium, a...
Nokia, the once-"burning platform" mobile devices company, is now seen to be a looked-upon savior for Microsoft. Late Labor Day evening, Microsoft announced it would be acquiring the handset and services business of Nokia, as well as licensing Nokia's substantial patent portfolio.The all-cash deal shakes out to be €3.79 billion...
No one but patent trolls—entities seeking to profit from patents they don't actively use in making products—likes the current US intellectual property regime. Inefficient and outdated, the US patent system, in particular, frustrates innovation more than it fosters it.Things may be on track to get change, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told ReadWrite...
The White House has decided that it wants to have a say in the in the ongoing patent wars that have waged between smartphone manufacturers over the past several years. This weekend, the Obama administration vetoed a ruling from the International Trade Commission that called for an import ban on older...
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