Reeling from an 88% drop in its stock value last year, Kodak is looking to its expansive patent library as a source of recovery cash to mount a comeback. Today, the 131-year-old imaging company sued Apple and HTC over imaging patents while, yesterday, Apple’s stock hit an all-time high. FOSS Patents lays out the particular...
This morning The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patent number 7657849 which grants Apple the rights to the familiar Slide to Unlock gesture. The unlock gesture has become synonymous with iOS devices, and now, any company that uses a gesture that’s similar will have to pay royalties, or be charged with patent...
When Apple debuted the iPhone in 2007, the demo of Multi-Touch was something we had never seen before. This is how Apple explains Multi-Touch and how it works: Multi-Touch control. With its large Multi-Touch display and innovative software, iPhone lets you controleverything using only your fingers. Type using the predictive keyboard, glide through albums with...
The New York Times takes a look at the 313 patents attached with Steve Jobs' name, and they range from product design for Macs and iPhones down to details in packaging and power adapters and glass staircases. It's an interesting look at various patents for products that came into fruition and some concepts that didn't....
It's always interesting to note the potential future concepts coming from Apple, as revealed each time they submit a patent to the US Patent & Trademark Office. The latest, as noted by Patently Apple, shows future iPhones and other iOS devices will sport integrated projector systems. They note the significant detail within these applications hint...
Nortel, the former Canadian telecom titan, has announced the completion of its sale of patents and patent applications to a consortium consisting of Apple and other companies, such as RIM, Sony, and Microsoft, as stated in a press release below: TORONTO - Nortel Networks Corporation [OTC: NRTLQ] announced that it,its subsidiary Nortel Networks Limited (NNL),...
You might have heard about Nortel's (RIP, our dear old Canadian friend) patent portfolio being sold to the highest bidders, with approximately $4.5 billion spent by a consortium of companies that consisted of RIM, Ericsson, Microsoft, Sony, and Apple. According to Reuters, Google made strange bid amounts of 'pi' and lost. Robert Cringely notes the...
3D has made a small comeback in the movies, TVs (barely), and the Nintendo 3DS. What about your future iPhone? That's what AppleInsider has dug up, according to some patents filed to the US Patent and Trademark Office by Apple. The application refers to Apple's approach as a "paradigm shift from the known software-based approaches."...
