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Apple’s iPhone 4S antenna may violate Samsung patents

Published on: 30th October, 2011

The new iPhone 4S antenna is expected to eliminate antenna issues suffered with the first handset version, but it may violate patents. Gert Frolund Pederson, a Danish professor, along with other colleagues at Aalborg University, spoke to ComON and said that Apple may face a legal battle from Samsung as a further counter to Apple’s [...]

Cordance sues Apple and PayPal over one-click shopping patents

Published on: 16th March, 2011

On March 14, 2011, Cordance sued PayPal, Apple and Victoria’s Secret for supposedly copying its one-click shopping technology. The Delaware-based complaint, made with the help of the formerly unknown exclusive licensee (which could likely be the Efficient Online Purchasing company) accused the three companies of violating a patent for an object-based online transaction infrastructure. Moreover, [...]

Judge dismisses Kodak’s patent complaint against RIM and Apple

Published on: 30th January, 2011

Kodak has received a major blow to its hopes after the international Trade Commission has rejected its patent complaints against Apple and Research in Motion. Judge Luckern rejected the complaint related to the patent in question, for low resolution moving previews, as being too obvious a version of an earlier patent and not being usable [...]

Lens with both electronic and manual zoom patented by Nikon

Published on: 30th December, 2010

Nikon has registered a patent in Japan on June 3, 2009, which was published on the 16th this month and describes a lens that can zoom both electronically and manually. The functions are to be controlled by a zoom button placed on the camera body. The lens is intended to solve the problem encountered by [...]

Nokia sues Apple in Netherlands, Germany and UK again

Published on: 23rd December, 2010

Nokia refused to back off in its dispute with Apple over some patents and sued the American firm in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The complaints in The Hague, Düsseldorf and London accuse Apple of violation of 13 extra patents added to the other 24 already invoked in the United States complaints. This [...]

Microsoft patent to force touchscreens make keyboards and tactile objects

Published on: 15th December, 2010

A new patent filing recently published by Microsoft could force touchscreens to change shape and create keyboards as well as other tactile objects. Called “light-induced shape-memory polymer display screen”, the technique is supposed to send ultraviolet light above each pixel of a plastic layer to change its topography. As far as different ultraviolet wavelengths are [...]

Fingerprint ID, RFID readers, haptic screens are the new Apple patent applications

Published on: 14th July, 2009

Apple is considering as a possibility for the iPhone or the iPod touch, an application that includes a “multi-touch display screen with localized tactile feedback”. A grid of piezoelectric actuators that can be activated at will to provide a vibration feedback when you touch the screen is what the new Apple’s application is about. Apart [...]