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• in Gadgets
  Apple's Roadmap: The Future of Glass?
  The evolution of the iPad/iPhone belies Apple's relationship with Corning's futuristic glass vision.
  by ecoleader / on Mar 24, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “uspto”

 

• AMP v. Myriad: Getting Beyond the Hype and Hyperbole*

  
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  By holding that Myriad’s claimed cDNA was patent-eligible, Thomas’ opinion reaffirms the major holding in Diamond v. Chakrabarty that claimed subject matter which truly only the “hand of man” can make (not simply snipped out of “mother nature”) will make it to the patent-eligibility zone. (Whether that ...
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• USPTO Reverses Course, Confirms Apple’s ‘Overscroll Bounce’ Patent – The Mac Observer

  
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  The Mac Observer USPTO Reverses Course, Confirms Apples Overscroll Bounce PatentThe Mac ObserverApple & the USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) reversed a "final" ruling from April that invalidated key claims in Apples "overscroll bounce" patent. The USPTO informed Apple that it would be issuing a ...
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• USPTO Instructs Examiners to Reject

  
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  USPTO to Examiners: "As of today, naturally occurring nucleic acids are not patent eligible merely because they have been isolated. Examiners should now reject product claims drawn solely to naturally occurring nucleic acids or fragments thereof, whether isolated or not, as being ineligible subject matter under 35 ...
  6 days ago

• Did the PTAB Just Kill Software Patents?

  
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  Under what authority does the PTAB ignore specifically recited structure? The authority that the PTAB seems to be relying on to ignore claim terms is unclear and not explained in the opinion in any satisfactory way. It does, however, seem that the fact that the invention can be implemented in any type of computer ...
  1 week ago

• Update on Post-Grant Design Patent Challenges

  
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  Interest in design patents is increasing, in part, because they can be obtained relatively inexpensively and quickly. Dennis Crouch recently reported that from 2010-2012 the majority of design patents issue within 12-months of their filing date (see "Design Patents Are Still Relatively Quick" by Dennis Crouch, ...
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• Microsoft to Patent a New Kind of DVR

  
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  As a constant developer of new technologies, Microsoft is seen often as an assignee on a great many U.S. Patent & Trademark Office patents and applications every week. This week on Companies We Follow, IPWatchdog is taking a look at this corporation’s more intriguing patents as of late, including many of those ...
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• Google patents new facial recognition technology to let users unlock phones with a wink and a smile

  
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  Google first implemented face-unlock in ICS , and since then, theyve been hard at work improving the feature and acquiring new IP related to it. Last fall, the search giant patented a way for multiple users to use face-unlock on a single device. This week it obtained a new patent for a method that requires users to ...
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• University Patents, Licenses Cattle Feed Supplement

  
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  (Agricultural Research Service, USDA) Kansas State University in Manhattan received a patent and licensed a nutritional supplement for cattle feed developed by one of its faculty members. Research by animal sciences professor Jim Drouillard led to development of a supplement that improves absorption of omega-3 ...
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• Will Facial Gesture Unlocking Give You the Right to Act Weird in Public?

  
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  Will Facial Gesture Unlocking Give You the Right to Act Weird in Public? is a post by Chuong Nguyen from Gotta Be Mobile . Google had debuted a key security feature called Face Unlock on the Android 4.0 software release, but users eventually found out that holding a picture of the owner’s phone up to the ...
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• Boeing Patent Application to Help Detect Infectious Disease

  
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  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is often publishing applications and awarding patents to Boeing for their technological developments for aircraft. This week on IPWatchdog’s Companies We Follow series, we take a look at some of Boeing’s most intriguing recent patents and applications. Two patent applications ...
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• World’s Five Largest Intellectual Property Offices (IP5) Meet in Silicon Valley

  
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  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a meeting of the heads of the world’s five largest intellectual property offices in Cupertino, California.  Known as the IP5, members include the USPTO, the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent ...
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• Apple files ‘iMoney’ patent for virtual currency, digital wallet, and … free stuff

  
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  July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Who needs money when you can have iMoney? Apple has applied for a patent on a combined virtual currency and digital wallet technology that would allow you to store money in the cloud, make payments with your iPhone, and — just maybe — ...
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• USPTO and KIPO Announce Launch of Cooperative Patent Classification System Pilot

  
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  The pilot between KIPO and the USPTO marks a major first step towards KIPO classifying its patent collection using the CPC. For the pilot, KIPO will apply the CPC classification to patent documents in particular technologies, namely, technologies for which filings have been especially active at KIPO. KIPO will work ...
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• Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 Modifies U.S. Design Patent Law

  
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  While much attention has been given to the recent, significant changes in U.S. patent law arising from the America Invents Act (“AIA”), lesser attention has been given to patent law changes brought about by further congressional action. Specifically, the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act (“PLTIA”) ...
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• Obama administration takes aim at patent trolls with legislative changes

  
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  After spending last week under the hot lights of Congressional investigators about its taxes, Apple hopes to switch gears and ask for government help fighting so-called patent trolls. Among the iPhone maker’s potential allies: U.S. President Obama, who reportedly plans to limit such costly legal nuisance lawsuits. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Patent Predicts the Presence of NFC on New Apple Devices

  
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  The USPTO published a new Apple patent regarding the use of NFC in mobile devices – or not – of the company for the transfer of data, like the S-Beam technology, integrated on some models of Samsung Galaxy. A big lack of iPhone 5 is the absence of the NFC module for the transfer of data or [...] The post A New ...
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• Obama administration comes out swinging against patent trolls

  
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  Justin Sloan / flickr The signs are clear that so-called "patent trolls," companies that do nothing but threaten and litigate over patents, are doing serious damage to the economy. After more than a decade in which patent abuse has shot up to new heights, the problem has finally reached the attention of ...
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• Obama on Patent Trolls – Much Ado About Nothing

  
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  There is no doubt that the Obama position will be loved by Google and other Silicon Valley technology giants that despise the patent system. Given the revolving door between the Obama Administration and Google, the long-term close relationship between President Obama and Google (see here, here and here), and the fact ...
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• Obama administration announces initiative to target patent trolls, protect consumers

  
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  The White House announced an initiative today to curb the use of patents by patent holders as a tool for "frivolous litigation," and to protect "Main Street retailers, consumers and other end-users of productions containing patented technology." The initiatives inception is composed of legislative recommendations to ...
  2 weeks ago

• White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues

  
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  Today the White House announced major steps to improve incentives for future innovation in high tech patents, a key driver of economic growth and good paying American jobs. The White House issued five executive actions and seven legislative recommendations designed to protect innovators from frivolous litigation and ...
  2 weeks ago

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