I-mate was one of the pioneers of the smartphone segment, no doubt about that, but at some point they were claiming that they created the first Windows Mobile phone, a title disputed by many companies. Last we heard, they weren’t doing so well, because of some financial and internal issues, but now word’s out that they were bought by HTC. The...
Believe it or not, the folks of Cupertino, who were recently sued by Nokia for infringing a bunch of patents with the iPhone have decided to sue the Finns, for a couple of patents of their own. 13 to be more precise, each more complex than the other… Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell went out and stated that Nokia “stole” the Cupertino...
If you thought that the patent for Nokia Cseries devices was big news yesterday, wait till you hear this: turns out that there’s also an Xseries coming, plus various other new brands, like Nokia Money and Booklet. All the info was leaked with Finnish blog Puhelinvertailu, who managed to have a look at Nokia’s trademark database. Taking...
We knew that Nokia was readying a couple of new Maemo devices for this Fall, but now it turns out that the Finns are also preparing a new series of devices, under the Cseries branding. That’s the brand name recently registered by Nokia with the Finnish Patent and Trademark Office. This application was filed on April 14th, 2009 and we’re...
Samsung has just patented a new rear keyboard system, that uses two folding half QWERTY keyboards hidden in the body of the phone. Thanks to this new design, the screen will be larger and provide more viewing space. Will this affect text entry? Sure it will and the picture above makes it look quite uncomfortable. One would need pretty big keys and...
We’ve seen lots of Androids before Google’s OS came up, but nothing important enough to trigger a trademark lawsuit… until now. Erich Specht, software developer and Internet app service provider in the Village of Palatine, Illinois owns a company called Android Data, for which he got the trademark back in 2002. Meanwhile, Google first...
HTC faces legal action, because patent holding company IP-Com, together with US private equity fund Fortress have attacked the creator of Touch Diamond for it patents regarding the UMTS implementation on some of its new smartphones. Turns out that the technology troubling these companies is used on the baseband chipset supplied by Qualcomm and it infringes...
Saxon Innovations patent holdings firm filed a complaint to the US International Trade Commission, that recently voted the investigation of some electronic devices. The issue? According to the patent firm, section 337 of the Tarrif Act of 1930 was violated, as it states that certain electronic devices can’t be imported and sold in the US, because...
An American inventor claims that he owns the intellectual property rights to iPhone-like web browsing on mobile phones, so he sued Apple to prove his point. Elliot Gottfurcht is the name of the man who filed a lawsuit against the iPhone’s maker and calls them to the Texan court. It’s all got to do with the inventor’s company, EMG technology,...
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