A defunct navigation company called WebMap Technologies is suing 15 different major companies in what might be the most bloated and fatuous IP lawsuit in recent memory. And it just might pay off.
WebMap's principals are claiming that ...READ»
A new Apple patent filing suggests the company might want subsidize the price of its computers with a complex advertising program that maintains the attention of the user and can lock the computer if the user spaces out.
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Obama is hoping for some big climate handshakes in separate talks with China and India next month--including the announcement of India's first cap-and-trade scheme. While the big talking point will be setting CO2 limits at levels ...READ»
Dean Kamen's Segway has been a modest success, but it certainly hasn't become "to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy," as the inventor once predicted. Still, that hasn't stopped Kamen from continuing to ...READ»
Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears as a principal applicant on a patent published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the concept in question isn't computer-based; it's an electromagnetic combusion engine. The ...READ»
Despite all of its various reinventions the basic design of the mouse hasn't changed very much--it's still the same old pointing device we know and love. But Moixa's newly patented Sphere is such a radical rethink, melding mouse and ...READ»
The next iPhone could be the center of a sophisticated in-car navigation system, if a recently revealed Apple patent is taken to logical extremes. We've mentioned Apple's extensive patenting of GPS technology before, but that's ...READ»
At the end of February, Microsoft [MSFT] brought suit against GPS company TomTom [TOM2] for several patent infringements pertaining to TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation software. Now the Linux community is preparing for a fight, ...READ»
Fri, February 06 Process
It wasn't the sexiest of races, but, wow, was it important. In the 1950s, the rush to make the first functional integrated circuit was on. The unfortunately named Geoffrey W.A. Dummer, who thought up the ...READ»
The Macintosh turned 25 years old this past weekend, and Apple seems to be celebrating the occasion by unleashing its blood-lusting attorneys on Palm in a potential patent infringement suit.READ»
While there's no telling if patents will ever lead to actual devices, an interesting one was discovered this week, filed by Creative [OTC:CREAF]. The diagrams show something a great deal more capable than a normal PMP (or portable ...READ»
