by Romain Dillet | Jul 28, 2017 | Apple, Gadgets, Mobile, Nokia, patent, TC
After a quick fight, Apple and Nokia settled a patent lawsuit back in May. But the two companies didn’t comment on the value of this settlement. While terms of the deal are still undisclosed, Nokiamob first spotted that Nokia announced that it has received...
by Juli Clover | Jul 26, 2017 | lawsuit, patent, Patent lawsuits
U.S. District Judge William Conley today ordered Apple to pay $506 million to the University of Wisconsin’s Alumni Research Foundation for infringing on a patent related to computer processing technology used in its A7, A8, and A8X chips, reports Reuters. The...
by Juli Clover | Jul 18, 2017 | lawsuit, patent, Patent lawsuits, Qualcomm
Apple and Qualcomm have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle since the beginning of the year, and though the fight has escalated in recent weeks, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf today told Fortune that an out of court settlement is not out of the question....
by Mitchel Broussard | Jun 27, 2017 | Beddit, patent
A new patent filed by Apple in 2015, and published today by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, shines some light on what the company could be working on in regards to sleep tracking technology and its recent acquisition of Beddit. Called “Adjusting...
by Natasha Lomas | May 23, 2017 | Apple, Europe, Gadgets, Hardware, Health, Health tech, Mobile, Nokia, patent, TC, Withings
Well that didn’t last long. A fresh patent spat between Nokia and Apple which fired up at the back end of last year when Cupertino accused the former world number one mobile maker of making like a patent troll appears to have been resolved already. Read...
by Mitchel Broussard | May 11, 2017 | patent, Siri
A patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office today details a new Apple service where users could make inquiries and talk with the company’s AI assistant Siri through Messages (via AppleInsider). The new patent is similar to a...
by Tim Hardwick | May 2, 2017 | health and fitness, patent
Apple is exploring an electronic tagging solution to make it easier for Apple Watch users to track their calorie and nutritional intake as part of a healthy lifestyle, as shown in a patent newly granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Many of today’s...
by Mitchel Broussard | Apr 10, 2017 | AirPods, Apple Watch, iPhone 8, patent
A new patent filed by Apple last year, and published recently by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, details a future iteration of the AirPods charging case that could simultaneously recharge the wireless headphones as well as an iPhone or Apple Watch. In...
by Tim Hardwick | Mar 7, 2017 | iPhone 8, patent
Apple was awarded a patent today that details a method of detecting faces in a digital video feed through the use of depth information. Published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the document describes how face detection algorithms could identify the presence...
by Tim Hardwick | Feb 23, 2017 | iPhone 8, patent, Touch ID
One of the more contentious iPhone 8 rumors we’ve seen recently is the claim that with the removal of the home button, Apple will ditch its Touch ID fingerprint recognition technology and replace it with another form of bio-recognition hardware. While several...
