Tagged: Patents
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Wearable tech player Jawbone acquires BodyMedia for US$100m News
30.04.2013 Wearable tech and audio equipment maker Jawbone has acquired health technology player BodyMedia for an estimated US$100m. At the same time, Jawbone has unveiled its new UP... -
DCU reveals new fast track patents for entrepreneurs – plans to take 1pc of royalties News
26.04.2013 To coincide with World Intellectual Property Day, Dublin City University (DCU) is embarking on a fast-track DCU Licence Express Scheme to make selected patent innovations... -
Ireland is No 1 in Europe for enjoying economic effects of innovation News
26.03.2013 Ireland is the top of the EU league table for making knowledge and innovation work for the real economy. Despite this achievement, the EU’s Innovation Union Scoreboard placed... -
Microsoft Xbox cleared of infringing Google’s patents News
23.03.2013 The International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 games console doesn’t infringe patent rights belonging to Google’s recently acquired Motorola... -
Twitter succeeds in securing broad patent for message distribution platform News
20.03.2013 It’s official, Twitter is now a patented product and co-founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone are its named inventors. Despite the far-reaching terms of the patent, which was...Categories: Social Media, Intellectual Property -
Review: Dyson Hot+Cool Air Multiplier (AM05) News
19.03.2013 They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. And while the technology industry outdoes itself in its quest to come up with the shiniest, smartest and most...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Development, Design, Consumer Tech -
Google to cut 10pc of workforce at Motorola Mobility unit News
08.03.2013 Google is to cut 1,200 jobs at its Motorola Mobility unit, it has emerged. These layoffs follow 4,000 jobs that were cut last August at Motorola Mobility. -
Back to the trenches – Apple and Samsung to return to the courts News
04.03.2013 Apple and Samsung are set to return to the courts to fight over the ownership of patents concerning smartphones and tablet devices after Judge Lucy Koh shaved US$450m of the...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Peripherals, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Computers -
EU ministers sign patent agreement to help boost European innovation News
19.02.2013 At a signing ceremony in Brussels today, ministers from 24 EU member states have signed an international agreement on the Unified Patent Court to pave the way for inventors to... -
PS Vita price drop in Japan fuels rumours of new handheld console News
18.02.2013 It is being widely reported today that the price of the PlayStation Vita handheld console has been cut by about a third in Japan, adding fuel to rumours that a new handheld...Categories: Games/Entertainment -
Google sues BT over four patents News
14.02.2013 Internet search giant Google has launched lawsuits against telecoms company BT in the UK and US, claiming BT has infringed several of its technologies. The lawsuits follow the... -
Facebook is being sued over patents for its ‘Like’ button News
11.02.2013 Social networking giant Facebook is being sued by Rembrant IP Management for allegedly infringing patents related to its ‘Like’ button, its status update system and other such...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, R&D, Intellectual Property, Digital Media -
Apple vs Samsung: Judge’s post-trial ruling declares infringement wasn’t wilful News
30.01.2013 In post-trial rulings handed down yesterday, US district judge Lucy Koh denied both Samsung and Apple their request for a new patents trial and decided that the damages awarded...Categories: Intellectual Property, Computers -
Nokia and RIM settle patent dispute News
21.12.2012 Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has agreed on a patent-licencing deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), which will see the two handset makers settle all existing... -
Samsung abandons Apple injunctions in Europe News
18.12.2012 In the latest twist in the patent wars between the two companies, Samsung is to drop its patent injunction applications filed against Apple for standards-essential patent...Tags: Android, Smartphones, Brand Identity, Tablet Computers, Smartphone, iPhone, iPad, Apple, Patents, Samsung -
Weekend news round-up: Apple television just a fantasy; end in sight for patent wars? News
10.12.2012 In our trawl through some of the top tech stories of the weekend, former Apple insider, venture capitalist and blogger Jean-Louis Gassée says the rumour mill is worked up over...Tags: Mapping, Google, Zynga, Patents, Smartphones, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Tim Cook, Dell, Microsoft -
Samsung adds iPad mini and iPad 4 to patents battle against Apple News
22.11.2012 In the latest predictable salvo in the never-ending patent wars, Samsung has added the iPad mini to the list of product infringements it alleges Apple has committed. -
Next Generation Innovation Policy Reports
13.07.2011 The future of EU innovation policy to support market growth. -
Apple to pay out US$368.2m to VirnetX in VPN FaceTime patent trial News
07.11.2012 A federal jury in Texas has ruled that Apple’s FaceTime function infringed four patents belonging to a company called VirnetX. As a result Apple will have to pay US$368.2m in...Categories: Unified Communications, R&D, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
French med-tech company Biom’Up raises €6.8m News
25.10.2012 Biom’Up, a French company that specialises in the manufacture of re-absorbable medical devices based on collagen technology, has raised €6.8m in financing from existing...