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New Apple patent points to a social exercising technology

Apple is not known for "being" a social type company, far from it really, but that doesn't stop it from recognizing potential for making money but incorporating the new social world within its products. We saw this ... continue

Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal With LG, VP Taunts Google

Patent wars over smartphones, especially over the last several years, have been at an all time high. Microsoft announced that they signed a patent-licensing deal with LG, a number two maker of smartphones. As much as Google would ... continue

M-Case Sues Amazon, Says Company Squeezed Them For Profits, Stole Patented Design

Amazon Kindle case designer M-Edge has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for what they claim is anti-competitive attempts to silence a rival. The company claims in the filing that Amazon used unfair competition and false advertising along with ... continue

Could fuel-cell-powered MacBooks be on the Apple horizon?

Apple is always filing, and being granted all kinds of patents some of which are obviously intended for a looming battle in the mobile space with Android but not all of them are meant for the battlefield ... continue

Could Apple’s latest patent spell big trouble for competitors down the road?

Like all tech companies Apple is a giant collector of patents and they have never shown any fear in using them when they see fit, either as a basis for a lawsuit or as a threat to ... continue

Future Crowd Control Shields Will Suffocate People With Sound

Gizmodo is reporting that recent patents filed with the US Patent office by Raytheon's show a new type of riot shield that uses low frequency sound pulses to disrupt breathing and render someone unconscious. There are already loud ... continue

Apple Scores Small Victory In HTC Patent Lawsuit

Apple on Monday scored a small victory in their patent infringement lawsuit against HTC. A US trade commission ruled that HTC would be required to change the way they use phone number and date information within emails. In ... continue

Another patent awarded to Google. This time for autonomous cars

Google made a bit of news earlier in the year when it was testing driver-less cars and now it seems that it has been awarded a patent for their work. Officially called Transitioning a Mixed-mode Vehicle to ... continue

Apple To Appeal Motorola Patent Win In Germany

Apple revealed in a statement on Friday that they will challenge Motorola's imposition of a German ban on iPhones and iPads. Executives from the company said they will file the appeal "right away" while pointing out that holiday ... continue

Mobile Industry Goes On Offensive With Increasing Patent Wars, Cross-Licensing Deals

A war is waging in the mobile industry and unlike patent battles of previous years this new battle isn't about patents company's have invented but rather patents they have purchased, sometimes for billions of dollars. The battle started ... continue

Samsung Sues Apple To Block iPhone 4S Sales

Samsung on Monday filed new patenting lawsuits against Apple in the hopes of blocking iPhone 4S sales in Japan and Australia, those suits join ones already filed in France and Italy. In each country the patent in question ... continue

WiFi users violating our patent says patent troll but home users safe – for now

It seems that we are all infringing on the patent of a company by the name of Innovatio IP every time that we use WiFi and while they have been concentrating on suing everyone from coffee shops, ... continue

U.S. Government Denies Apple Request For Multitouch Trademark

While the Apple iPhone ushered in the age of multitouch devices many other products now offer "multitouch" technology and that fact has led the United States Patent and Trademark Office this week to deny the company's trademark claim. The ... continue