Apple/USPTO Apple may cook up a pair of goggles for your own personal viewing pleasure. Published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, a patent application dubbed simply “Head mounted display” describes a head-mounted goggle system that could serve as your personal TV away from home. The device would display movies and TV shows …
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Apple and Samsung are feuding over patents in a San Jose, Calif., courthouse. Shara Tibken/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple on Friday rested its patent-infringement suit against Samsung after an expert detailed the $2.19 billion in damages the company says it’s due from Samsung. Samsung will kick off its defense later Friday with Google Android executive Hiroshi Lockheimer taking the …
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Apple was awared 46 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday. One stands out as a compelling, albeit outdated, idea. Apple last year filed for a patent on push-to-talk technology, similar to what Nextel offered before being swallowed up by Sprint and subsequently shuttered. The patent, which was awarded on Tuesday, describes a method by which …
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Apple and Samsung are battling in court. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple should receive about $2.191 billion in damages from Samsung for patent infringement, an expert for the iPhone maker argued Tuesday. Apple earlier said it wanted about $2 billion, but the testimony Tuesday marked the first time the company disclosed the precise total and the factors that went into …
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Greg Christie is one of the inventors of Apple’s slide-to-unlock iPhone feature. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple took great pains to make its first iPhone as simple as possible, a company engineer told a court here, as Apple sought to add weight to its patent infringement suit against Samsung. A key argument for Apple throughout its various trials involving …
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Apple and Samsung are battling over patents. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif.–Judge Lucy Koh late Thursday denied Apple’s request to talk about how it uses several of the patents at issue in an infringement suit against Samsung. Apple filed a motion Thursday asking a court here to let it present previously banned evidence and testimony. At issue is whether Apple itself …
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And so the Apple v. Samsung legal wrangling continues. In a California patent case, Apple filed a motion late Thursday asking the court to let it present previously banned evidence and testimony. At issue is whether Apple itself uses the patents it has accused Samsung of copying. Samsung’s attorneys, during their opening arguments Tuesday, said Apple doesn’t use them. But …
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Apple/USPTO Apple has moved a step further in a proposed invention that could more securely fasten different camera lenses to your iPhone. Granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday, a patent dubbed simply “Bayonet attachment mechanisms” describes a method of using a bayonet mount on your mobile device through which interchangeable camera lenses could be attached. Bayonet …
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Apple and Samsung are battling over patent infringement. CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung has nothing to do with Google, Apple attorneys argued Tuesday. “You’re…going to hear Samsung point the finger at Google and say — hey, this is Android software,” Harold McElhinny, one of the lead attorneys in Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, …
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James Martin/CNET SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple “vastly overstated the scope of its patents” and is asking for an unreasonably high amount of damages, Samsung argued Tuesday during its opening arguments in a court here. “The suggestion seems to be if you’re not asking for billions, you don’t take patents seriously,” Samsung attorney John Quinn said. Almost two years after …
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