by Robert Triggs, 1 week ago

Patents are a great way to find out about future products, and although they’re not necessarily representative of a final product, they do give us a small glimpse at what technology companies are working on…

by Nate Swanner, 2 weeks ago

Credit: James M Phelps, Jr / Shutterstock.com The realm of mobile technology has a lot of nuance. Whether it’s HTC trying to rebuild their brand, Huawei leaving the US market, or Samsung continuing to steamroll…

by Mike Stenger, 3 weeks ago

Titled “Panoramic images within driving directions”, Google’s interesting new patent involves overlaying objects that users are familiar with in today’s navigation systems. Utilizing 3-D models, live video feeds, 360-degree video and images, your route could…

by Andrew Roach, 1 month ago

Patents offer a nice window to see what kind of innovative and quirky ideas manufacturers have for new devices. Sadly, many of these don’t come to fruition, sometimes due to lack of practicality or marketability….

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

The Apple vs Samsung patent clash has been making the headlines the most in the past year or so, but that’s not the only seemingly endless legal dispute starring some of the big tech companies…

by Brad Ward, 2 months ago

When you think of a touch screen you think of the front display. With that display you interact with your device by swiping up, down, left or right. In the future we may not be…

by Mike Andrici, 2 months ago

In the ongoing global legal war between Samsung and Apple, the latter has recently won a minor battle in the UK, as Judge Floyd from the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

“You’ve got a friend in me,” Nokia seems to be telling Apple when it filed its amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in support for Apple’s patent claim against Samsung, in particular Apple’s…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 2 months ago

With legal wars escalating and patent trolls running amok, technology companies often recourse to patenting even the most outlandish ideas, in a bid to gather as much intellectual property as possible. In many cases, the…

by Conan Hughes, 3 months ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling for a change in the software patent system, requiring any submission to come with working code. This simple yet elegant proposal will help thwart patent trolls who, in…

by Danny Standen, 3 months ago

Last year, Intel signed a multi-year, multi-device strategic relationship with Motorola Mobility and they’ve  since struck a deal with Google/Motorola to acquire “patents and patent applications’’ along with “tangible assets of the company located in the US”…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 3 months ago

In a bid to improve its intellectual property portfolio, Samsung intends to ramp up its mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity in order to develop — or acquire — new technologies and find new growth markets….

by Joe Hindy, 3 months ago

The patent wars have kind of ruled the mobile world for awhile now. If it’s not Apple suing over some silly design patent then it’s OEMs battling for their various patents with one another. These…

by Andrew Grush, 3 months ago

Intrigued by the idea of a smartphone camera featuring multiple LED flash bulbs onboard? Apparently so is Google. In September of 2011 the company filed for such a patent, and it has now been granted…

by Nate Swanner, 3 months ago

The much anticipated and often imitated (but not quite replicated) Google Glass is having a few hackathons in the coming weeks. At these hackathons, developers will get their first opportunity to check out the newest Google…