Posts Tagged ‘Patent’

This little filing, although far from being made (and surely far from being a patentable idea) is worth a look. It shows MacBooks with pico projectors,
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Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for the design of the iconic “cold worked” stainless steel bezel seen on the iPhone.
Originally applied for on July 10, 2008, U.S. Patent No. 7,688,574, entitled “Cold Worked Metal Housing for a Portable Electronic Device,” was formally granted on Tuesday, March [...]

Amazon’s patent on one-click shopping has been scrutinized by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The USPTO declared its intent to issue a reexamination certificate confirming the validity of Amazon’s amended version of the patent.
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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, [...]

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 [...]

A ‘Patent’ is a set of exclusive rights granted by the national government to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention. As per the Indian Patents Act, 1970, invention means any new or useful art, process method, apparatus or machine.

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