Topic: Patents

Twitter Just Got a Patent for Twitter, Swears It Won't Be Abusive

Reuters

Five years after Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone filed the application, the government granted issued a shiny new patent to the two cyber-inventors on Tuesday. Their invention? Twitter, of course. 

By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 13, 2013

Hunting for Clues to the Galaxy S IV in Samsung's Trademark Filings

While Samsung has been tight-lipped about the new Galaxy S IV it will unveil tomorrow, they've been especially busy in recent weeks and months filing phone-related trademarks, brand names that maybe give us a peak inside the products they're planning to bring to market.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Feb 20, 2013

Trimming the Times

Norwegian Wood, Charleston's Cruise Ships, and Granola

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 30, 2013

Samsung Just Can't Stop Beating Apple

Samsung has won the latest round of its neverending patent war with Apple — and at just the right moment in its cultural ascendance, giving the Korean gadget giant another notch on its "better-than-Apple" belt.

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By Connor Simpson

Nov 25, 2012

Apple Throws a Tantrum After Being Ordered to Tell Samsung Their HTC Secrets

The legal war between Samsung and Apple is going really well and they're both behaving like civil, reasonable adults. Ha, no, not really. Apple just threw a tantrum because they were ordered to tell Samsung a bunch of secrets that could potentially help Samsung keep their products on the shelves.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2012

Apple Takes the Sass Out of Its Samsung Apology

Only because it had to, Apple has complied with a U.K court that didn't appreciate its tone in its apology to Samsung and has revised its formally too sassy sorry-note.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 1, 2012

Court Didn't Find Apple's Non-Apology Apology to Samsung Very Cute

Apple continues to look like a sore loser in its U.K. patent suit loss to Samsung as a judge has ordered Apple to re-write its apology that read more like a diss published on its website last month. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 26, 2012

Apple's Apology to Samsung Is More of a Diss Than an Apology

Apple isn't taking its loss to Samsung in U.K. court like an adult, using its enforced apology as another place to mock its gadget-making rival.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Oct 18, 2012

Apple Loses Another Round In Its Patent Battle with Samsung

A UK court has handed Apple another defeat in one of its many legal fights with Samsung, forcing the iPad maker to prepare ads admitting that their rival did not copy their designs.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Oct 8, 2012

Trimming the Times

SNL, Car Washes, and Dartmouth

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Connor Simpson

Sep 22, 2012

$1 Billion Wasn't Enough for Apple in Samsung Case

Unsatisfied with the $1 billion settlement a jury awarded in August, Apple has requested a California judge reconsider the winning ruling in their case against Samsung to give Apple almost twice as much, and to enact a wide-ranging ban that could include the iPhone's biggest competitor.

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By Jen Doll

Sep 12, 2012

The Very Not Zen Battle of the Yoga Pants

The yoga business can be as cutthroat as any other, and the battle de jour this time is over pants. Specifically, Lululemon is accusing Calvin Klein of having ripped off a signature waistband. 

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By Connor Simpson

Sep 1, 2012

Apple Wants Samsung's Galaxy S III Off the Market

Following their $1 billion legal settlement, Apple listed eight Samsung products they want taken off the market. Now, still unsatisfied, Apple's adding two of Samsung's biggest products to their kill list. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 28, 2012

Samsung's Plan to Keep Its Phones on the Market

Following its patent lawsuit victory, Apple might want to take your Samsung device off the market, but Samsung has vowed to take "all necessary measures" to prevent that from happening.

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By John Hudson

Aug 27, 2012

These Are the Samsung Products Apple Wants Banned

Is your smartphone in danger of being taken off the market? You can find out now as Apple has listed the Samsung devices it wants banned from the U.S. market following its sweeping legal victory over the South Korean electronics manufacturer. 

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By Esther Zuckerman

Aug 27, 2012

Trimming the Times

James Holmes, Zoos, and Fringe Festivals

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 24, 2012

Jury Decides Samsung Owes Apple Over $1 Billion

The court has reached a verdict in the Apple Samsung patent trial after just one day of deliberation.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 15, 2012

Is the New Samsung Tablet Different Enough from the iPad Now?

Right in the middle of its design patent lawsuit fight with Apple, Samsung has released a new tablet that looks different from an iPad, but not different enough—at least by Apple's standards.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 6, 2012

Facebook and Yahoo Decide to Play Nice

A happy ending for the patent war Facebook entered with Yahoo earlier this year, with the final settlement including an expanded partnership between the two companies, sources tell AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.

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By Connor Simpson

Jun 27, 2012

Samsung Has Lost Its Patent Fight with Apple, For Now

A judge has ruled in favor of Apple in its quest to halt the sale of Samsung's Galaxy tablet, so Apple can make arguably its biggest competition go away for $2.6 million dollars. 

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By Eric Randall

May 23, 2012

Google Triumphs Over Oracle in Patent Suit

The jury has handed Google a major win in its case with Oracle over whether the search giant violated patents by using some of Oracle's code for its Android apps, The Next Web reports.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 9, 2012

AOL Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Money

AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.

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By Jeff Roberts, PaidContent

Mar 26, 2012

How Chicago, Not Silicon Valley, Is Controlling the Patent Debate

A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 8, 2012

Dear Apple: Please Stop Suing Bankrupt Companies

We're starting to think that Apple is nothing but a big, rich bully.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 29, 2012

We're Dreaming of a 3D iPad

The fanboy blogs are abuzz with thinly sourced reports about what Apple will unveil at next Wednesday's new product party in San Francisco, but after reading some of Apple's recent patent filings, we have one of our own: iPad 3D. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 3, 2012

Germany Banned the iPhone and the World Did Not End

Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten to block sales of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S. Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten blocked the sale of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S -- for a few hours.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 19, 2011

HTC Isn't Fazed by Its Android Phones Being Banned in the U.S.

In the increasingly fierce smartphone patent wars, HTC is an underdog, and now that Apple's successfully won a ban on several HTC phones beginning on April 12, 2012, some wonder if the South Korean company can survive another fight.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 16, 2011

The Irony of Apple Buying iPhone Chips from a Samsung Plant in Texas

In an "exclusive" Reuters reports that Samsung makes Apple's iPhone chips in a Texas plant which is two parts surprising: first, the two companies have been spatting for months over patents and Apple is known mostly for manufacturing its iThings in Chinese factories where labor conditions don't exactly meet American conscience standards.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 28, 2011

How the Patent Wars Work in Microsoft's Favor

Team Windows just signed Samsung up for a patent licensing deal. It's also a good reason for them not to use Google's OS

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 9, 2011

Patent Reform Won't Create the Kind of Jobs Obama's Looking For

The bill passed as a job creator, it doesn't really do that

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Google's Already Using Their Motorola Patents to Sue Apple

But they're being sneaky about it by transferring rights to their partners

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 7, 2011

Nintendo's Getting Sued Over the Wii

The makers of the Wavit Remote claim they patented the technology first

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 24, 2011

Samsung Seems Happy to Play Victim to Apple

The Korean company is oddly optimistic about a new ban on selling Galaxy smartphones

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 24, 2011

Samsung Suggests Apple Stole the iPad Concept from '2001'

The patent battle over tablet design is getting weirder and weirder

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 16, 2011

Tables Turn for Apple's Rep as Patent Bully

Apple's competitors seem like they're tired of getting picked on

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 15, 2011

Google's Motorola Purchase Was a Patent Power Play

Motorola's patent portfolio is four times thicker than Nortel's

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By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 4, 2011

Silicon Valley's Billion-Dollar Patent Blogfight

A very dry topic turns into a Twitter slap-fight between Google and Microsoft

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jul 29, 2011

Why Google's Scrambling to Catch Up in the Patent War

Google just bought over 1,000 patents from IBM, but they'll probably need to buy more

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