Apple has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to do some new things with the iPad, including a dual-iPad notebook and a magnetic iPad stand for cars, treadmills, and more.
Interestingly, Sir Robin had publicly criticized Apple for what he thought was a lack of integrity.
As Steve Jobs went "thermo-nuclear" on clones, Tim Cook wanted to cool it.
Patents. Nothing gets technologists going quite like the subject of patents and when — if ever — they should be implemented in software.
Now, a federal appeals court is taking a sweeping look at the topic of software patenting, especially …
Rounded corners are not patentable in Holland.
For the 20th consecutive year, IBM has held its ground as the king of patents. And it will now devote considerable resources to big data and analytics technologies.
By expanding its patent agreement with InterDigital to cover 4G LTE, RIM is making a big investment in the future of the BlackBerry.
With these two latest private data reveals, this is turning into a unwilling corporate equivalent of an adolescent show-me-yours-I'll-show-you-mine.
Marvell Technology Group, best known for making chips for a wide variety of devices, is in hot water with Carnegie Mellon University
Apple's Christmas gifts this year (on top of loads of iPad and iPhone sales) included a few new patents.
Guest Post With the advent of the next phase of AIA affecting the definition of prior art, patent filing rules and patent quality determinations, the key for entrepreneurs and small businesses is preparation.
Going broke, Nokia and RIM would rather settle their patent differences than spend millions of dollars fighting over them.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reportedly invalidated one of the key patents in the Apple v. Samsung dispute.
The Kodak patent sale drama has finally reached its end.
You'll have to wait a bit longer to see the end of the FTC's Google antitrust investigation.
Korean electronics giant Samsung said today that it has dropped injunction requests against Apple products all across Europe, including in the U.K., France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Apple and Google have joined forces to offer more than $500 million for some of the 1,100 digital imaging patents from Eastman Kodak, according to Bloomberg, citing “two people with knowledge of the situation.”
If the report is accurate, the …
Judge Lucy Koh, is aiming to settle the issues between the two companies -- and potentially stop this recent wave of patent lawsuits.
I have the much-discussed Apple-HTC cross-licensing contract in my greasy little digital fingers. It’s a powerful document that has kiboshed upwards of 40 lawsuits between the two companies.
If only I could read some of it.
Here’s what I know …
Eric Schmidt seems perplexed by some of Apple's recent decisions, like the recent patent lawsuits against Android partners, and Apple's sudden removal of Google's YouTube app from iOS devices.
