Posts Tagged ‘IP’

An Australian online start-up called Groggle has received a legal letter from Google’s lawyers requesting it cease trading and hand over its domain name groggle.com
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The world’s leading microchip maker, Intel Corporation, has moved the Bombay High Court challenging a decision by the trademarks registry to renew the company’s trademark — Intel — in favour of a Mumbai-based firm.
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iPOTT, the Bangalore based software search company has been granted trademark of its brand name “iPOTT”. With this grant, the name iPOTT is now protected by trademark rules in India and can now use ® along with its name. It took nearly 3 years to be granted the trademark from the date of application. [...]

Millions of people use Google’s search engine every day but don’t realize that the balance inherent in U.S. copyright law helps enable it to exist.
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Nokia, the mobile phone maker has developed a self-charging phone. The devise is designed to use the kinetic energy created when a person moves around. The patent application was filed with the USPTO. The new device could power a phone; however this technology could be used in any portable electronic device like a music player, [...]

When countries around the world are finding out ways to protect their intellectual property, Japan and China have inked a memorandum on copyright protection.
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On March 14, 1985, if one wanted to visit a commercial company’s Web site, he needed to know the string of numbers which made up its IP address. But a day later that changed.

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The USPTO has approved an application from Kaspersky Labs for a hardware based antivirus solution. This new hardware-implemented anti-virus (AV) module has its own CPU and memory and can effectively combat rootkits. Kaspersky Lab is a leading developer of secure content management solutions.
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What’s the patent, exactly?
What Google now has with the awarding of this patent includes:

Using location as a factor to decide whether an ad should be served or not (targeting and relevancy)
Tracking the performance of an ad using location (metrics and [...]

Could this patent affect social networking sites such as MySpace, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn that use a news feed system?
The Palo Alto based social networking company Facebook, Inc. has been awarded a patent bearing Patent No. 7,669,123 for “dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network.” Facebook applied for the [...]