By Adriana Lee |
Torrenters and other piracy fiends, take note: Software security firm McAfee has patented a technology designed to discourage people — possibly even block them — from getting hold of illicit torrent files and ripped movies or music. According to the patent filing titled “Detect and…
By Adriana Lee |
G.E. is doing something that’s unthinkable for other companies: It’s opening up a windfall of its patents so other inventors can take those ideas and run with them. Well, okay — not exactly run. But close. The corporation is joining forces with Quirky, the hub for…
By Adriana Lee |
Google’s commitment to open-source got a boost today, thanks to the company’s newly posted Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) pledge. The OPN pledge outlines Google’s passion and commitment to open-source, and promises not to instigate a lawsuit against any parties that use open-source software based on…
By Adriana Lee |
The patent system is busted. Litigious companies suing over vaguely worded claims, tying up courts and throwing obstacles at each other, preventing consumers like you and me from getting our tech goodies, make that perfectly clear. That fact isn’t lost on the U.S. Patent and…
By Brandon Russell |
A partially censored document with details of that tireless Apple vs. Samsung war has hit the ITC, revealing the presiding judge’s initial determination. Judge Thomas Pender proposes that, after siding with Apple back in October, an import ban on the infringing products and a posting…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia has reportedly asked a California court to step in and prevent RIM from selling some of its BlackBerry products. The Finnish phone maker and Research In Motion have yet to agree on the patent royalty rates that RIM will pay Nokia and, until the…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple on Friday added six new Samsung devices to its lawsuit in California, just a few days after the Korean company added the iPhone 5 to its own list of infringing devices. It’s quite obvious neither company is willing to back down from its claims,…
By Brandon Russell |
Samsung’s head of mobile and IT believes that, without some of the company’s wireless patents, there would be no iPhone. That’s a pretty substantial statement, especially considering Samsung was found to infringe upon plenty of Apple patents in a $1 billion case earlier this year.…
By Sean P. Aune |
As opposed to the ongoing fights between Apple and Samsung, it seems that the Cupertino company and HTC have settled their disagreements. Apple and HTC have agreed to a ten-year license agreement that extends to current and future patens held by both companies. Beyond that there isn’t…
By Adriana Lee |
A lot of eyes may be on Amazon right now, to see if it will introduce a new smartphone to the market, but Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO, has his eye on something else — the drama-filled patent wars being waged all over…
By Todd Haselton |
iPhones with freakin’ laser beams! Maybe not quite, but Apple recently received patents for laser microphones, flexible iPhone displays and more. The company’s patent describes a flexible touchscreen that would allow the screen to “react to sound vibrations,” UnwiredView explained. In other words, the display itself…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! It looks like the Apple vs. Samsung legal dispute is all but over. Samsung has retaliated by suing Apple for their recently released iPhone 5 – apparently Apple’s infringed on some of…
By Brandon Russell |
In the other case between Apple and Samsung — the one dealing with the Galaxy Nexus — the Cupertino company has allegedly amended its hitlist to include the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note. Will it never stop? Not likely, at least in our lifetime.…
By Adriana Lee |
Samsung sucks. The TouchWiz-ard steals other companies’ concepts and designs, and puts out inferior products with them. Apple is a thwarter of openness, a hypocritical dictatorship built on hipster iTwits and claims of greatness, while putting out — you guessed it — inferior products. If…
By Brandon Russell |
After many weeks of testimony and countless looks behind the iron curtain, the jury overseeing technology’s biggest ever lawsuit reached a verdict on Friday. The enormously complex case, according to The Verge, needed “some 700 individual decisions” to align in order for the jury to…
By Sean P. Aune |
Who has time to follow all of the Apple Vs. Samsung court shenanigans? This is the age of the Internet, can’t someone just sum it up for you in a handy infographic? Yes, they can. The folks over at Joy of Tech decided to have…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple may want to consider making the courtroom its permanent residence. Not long after wrapping up closing arguments in its infringement case against Samsung, the Cupertino company is being taken to task by Motorola Mobility. And for what? Patent-infringement. Motorola is claiming Apple was unwilling…
By Brandon Russell |
Samsung on Thursday attempted to turn the tables on Apple by saying the Cupertino company owes the Galaxy S III maker $421.8 million for infringement. Apple has already stated its case, and believes Samsung is responsible for paying out $2.5 billion for blatant copying. Those…
By Mark Hearn |
Another day, another docket of hired expert witnesses in the Apple v. Samsung (who copied what). First up was Apple’s hired-expert Kent Van Liere testifying that many consumers aren’t able to tell the difference between Samsung phones and the iPhone or between iPad and Samsung…
By Mark Hearn |
Mobile app maker Vringo announced on Thursday that it will acquire a portfolio of more than 500 worldwide patents and patent applications from Nokia, including 109 issued U.S. patents. “Thirty one of the 124 patent families acquired have been declared essential by Nokia to wireless…
By Mark Hearn |
Microsoft announced, on Tuesday, that it is licensing its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology to Sharp for use with its Android handsets. exFAT is a successor of Microsoft’s FAT32 file system and is commonly used across multiple consumer electronics and software platforms such as…
By Todd Haselton |
Kodak is currently auctioning off about 1,100 digital imaging patents in an effort to pull itself out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but the bids offered by both Apple and Google are far below what the patents are reportedly worth. Both firms bid between $150 million…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon shares his thoughts on the line of Google Nexus devices, and what we might see with the next generation series of Nexuses.. Nexus’.. Nexi? Not…
By Mark Hearn |
The vicious battle between Samsung and Apple raged on Monday when Apple shared evidence that suggests Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface copied its iOS icons. The graphics in question are icons used for access to contacts, phone, pictures, music, settings and notes. Apple’s lawyers claim that…
