In a joint statement filed to a California district court on Monday, Apple and Samsung announced an agreement to participate in court-supervised mediation of their years-long patent dispute. Attorneys representing Apple and Samsung said in an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) statement lodged with the…
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Samsung Electronics has repeatedly said they are not entering the 3D printing market, but some might find they protest a little too much–especially in light of the recent patent awarded to them by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent, regarding multicolor ink…
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Don’t look now, but Facebook may get yet another way to track you: your camera. According to a new “image fingerprinting” patent filed by the company in January (that’s Patent Publication US 20150124107 to you), the tech Facebook is developing could identify the exact camera used to shoot…
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It will come as no surprise that Apple have plenty of projects hidden in the complicated system of the US Patent and Trademark Office. And one an patent published earlier this month assigned to Apple, Inc., it looks like future generations of MacBook could have…
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said Apple (AAPL.O) should have been awarded an injunction barring Samsung (005930.KS) from selling products that infringe its patents, handing Apple another victory in its ongoing smartphone fight with its biggest rival. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Imagine “jogging glasses” that find and highlight potholes or loose terrain Since Google Glass transitioned earlier this year from experimental Google X moonshot to viable idea, we haven’t heard much from the newly-formed department. The Explorer program was shut down when Nest alum Tony Fadell…
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Rumor has it Samsung is gearing up to release its first foldable smartphone, codenamed “Project Valley,” early next year. It may sound like science fiction, but a recent patent from the South Korean company spotted by Patently Mobile reveals how Samsung could pull it off. The theoretical design…
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The patent system our government has created over the last decade incentivizes stealing patent rights rather than engaging in an arm length negotiation. This is antithetical to basic, fundamental principles embedded throughout American law. The laws in the United States are supposed to be certain,…
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A new patent from Google published today has some fascinating insight into how the company thinks that production of self-driving cars of the future might take control from the drivers they’re shuttling around — and how they could give it back, too. The description of…
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When it comes to bendable displays and foldable devices, Samsung seems to have a very keen interest in that area. Just this year alone we saw patents filed by Samsung for foldable devices such as tablets, and now according to another patent filing, Samsung seems…
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