Apple and Samsung are set to meet in court again early next year to argue over the amount of damages due to the iPhone maker. CNET Apple and Samsung will have to wait awhile before they can again duke it out in court over their seemingly neverending patent battle. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy …
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An iPhone with built-in smoke detection could not only identify the smoke’s source but also pinpoint the location of people in the home or building. Apple/USPTO Your iPhone could one day function as a portable smoke alarm if an Apple patent filing ever comes to fruition. An Apple patent application dubbed “Wireless device networks with smoke detection capabilities” published by …
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — We’ve all been there: After clicking or tapping a YouTube link, we’re greeted with a long wait, then video marred by blurry details and distracting blocky patterns. Google has been trying to improve the situation with technology called VP9 that compresses the video data so they can move across networks faster. And with a successor called …
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Enlarge ImageA look at Apple’s wireless headset with untethered earbuds. Apple via USPTO Apple has applied for a patent on bone conduction technology for voice communications, the US Patent and Trademark Office revealed Thursday. Apple’s patent application, filed in February 2014 but not published till Thursday, describes a method of improving voice quality in a wireless headset with untethered earbuds …
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Samsung scored a big victory against Smartflash, pushing down the road their pending patent battle. CNET Samsung has won an important victory against patent holder Smartflash that may ultimately save the company hundreds of millions of dollars. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Thursday that the lawsuit Smartflash has filed against Samsung alleging patent infringement …
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Amazon and Netflix want you to watch their streaming-video services using next-gen video technology that enables superhigh resolution. But a new patent-licensing organization has announced a new fee that could put a damper on such efforts. To enable the next-gen high-resolution video, the computing industry had largely settled on the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard to compress video down …
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Apple has invented a way to move objects onscreen by tapping the side of your device. Apple/USPTO Do you sometimes find it frustrating trying to move your cursor and other small objects on a mobile device screen using your finger? An Apple patent may have a solution. A patent application dubbed “Fine-tuning an operation based on tapping,” which was approved …
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Samsung has some major backers in its ongoing battle with Apple over patents. Josh Miller/CNET Some of the technology industry’s biggest companies have filed a motion with a US court to support Samsung in its ongoing patent battle with Apple. A coalition of companies led by Google, Facebook, eBay, and PC makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard filed a brief with the …
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LG has become the first company to license Nokia’s mobile portfolio since the Microsoft sale. Nokia is still making money on smartphones — just not its own. Nokia Technologies and LG have agreed to a smartphone patent licensing agreement, the companies announced on Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, LG will pay royalties to Nokia for use of its …
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Could trackpads one day be obsolete? Apple/USPTO Your future Apple MacBook may not need a trackpad for you to move around the screen. Published on Tuesday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a patent dubbed simply “Fusion keyboard” describes a keyboard with keys that can both insert characters as well as deploy touch gestures. Why create a laptop …
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