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Apple wins patents for Smart Covers, iTunes Store, Time Machine and more
Posted On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: apple store, iTunes, patent, smartcovers, the-end, time machine, timemachine, tuaw
Patently Apple reports that Apple had acquired a number of new patents to its arsenal today.

Samsung envisions wireless brain implants for medical monitoring
Posted On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 By admin. Under BoyGenius Tags: boygenius, imd, implanted medical device, legal, patent, samsung, science, uspto
The United States Patent and Trademark office recently published details surrounding a patent from Samsung regarding a technology that strategically implants electrodes into the human brain called Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs). The South Korea-based company states that an IMD may be implanted into a human body and be used to help monitor primary organs such as the heart and brain itself, PatentBolt reported on Wednesday
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ITC judge: Apple infringes on Motorola mobility patent
Posted On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 By admin. Under TUAW Tags: frand, infringement, ipad, iphone, itc, patent, the-end, tuaw
In a setback for Apple, the International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday that Apple infringes on one of Motorola's patents. The patent describes a "method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise sequence for processing a code division multiple access signal." ITC Judge Richard Pender also said Apple did not violate three other patents Motorola included in its original complaint
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Samsung claims Apple is infringing on eight patents in California documents
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: fosspatents, lawsuit, legal, patent, patent infringement, patentinfringement, the-end, tuaw
Executives from Samsung and Apple may be sitting down to discuss patents and infringement, but the legal battle between the two companies is far from over. According to a report from FOSS Patents , Samsung accused Apple of infringing on eight patents in a California lawsuit filed last Wednesday. Rather than target only mobile devices in this suit, Samsung took out the big guns and is aiming at iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TV, iCloud and iTunes.
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HTC says its touchscreens don’t violate Apple patents in UK court
Posted On Thursday, April 19, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: apple, apple legal, applelegal, htc, lawsuit, london, patent, patent infringement, patentinfringement, patents, the-end, tuaw
Apple and HTC are exchanging blows in a London court case over claims the Taiwanese manufacturer infringes on four Apple patents, says a Bloomberg report . These patents cover various multi-touch gestures, photo zooming and scrolling, slide-to-unlock and the use of a multilingual alphabet when sending text messages. HTC argues that it does not infringe on these patents because "We are dealing with extremely simple implementations of commonly known techniques." This is one of several lawsuits between the two companies, and a win over Apple in the UK could help HTC in these other cases.
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Apple allowed to intervene in Lodsys patent case
Posted On Friday, April 13, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: app-store, apple, appstore, ios, iphone, lawsuit, legal, lodsys, patent, suit, the-end, tuaw
Last year, patent holder Lodsys filed lawsuits against iOS developers including James Thomson, Patrick McCarron, IconFactory, Combay, Rovio and more.
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Patent for advanced authoring tool from Apple looks like what iWeb should have been
Posted On Friday, April 13, 2012 By temp. Under TUAW Tags: apple, authoring, content, multimedia, patent, the-end, tuaw
Anyone remember HyperCard ? I sure do. I miss HyperCard, an "authoring tool for the rest of us" that allowed mere mortals to make simplistic programs by ordering and linking "cards" and packing them up for users to try out on the Macs -- back in the 1980s, anyway.
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Qualcomm, Intel provide source code in patent battle
Posted On Friday, April 6, 2012 By admin. Under TUAW Tags: intel, lawsuit, mobileprocessors, patent, patent infringement, patentinfringement, qualcomm, source code, the-end, tuaw
Apple has some unusual bedfellows, Intel and Qualcomm, in a patent infringement case that it's fighting with Samsung in Australia. According to a Bloomberg report , Intel and Qualcomm agreed to provide the Australian court with source code that'll prove Apple isn't infringing on patents held by Samsung. The trial is slated to begin July 9 and will run through October 12
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Apple drops alert patent in Chicago litigation against Motorola
Posted On Friday, April 6, 2012 By admin. Under TUAW Tags: apple, chicago, infringement, lawsuit, legal, Motorola, patent, the-end, tuaw
Apple and other handset manufacturers are involved in so many lawsuits that it's difficult to keep up. Earlier this week, another infringement lawsuit in Chicago that's been around for a while resurfaced because Apple dropped a patent from the lawsuit
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