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Walmart Patents Design For Heart Rate Shopping Trolley
Walmart Patents Design For Heart Rate Shopping Trolley Shopping is an experience that rarely gets my heart racing. Well, except perhaps when people decide to congregate in the middle of an aisle to discuss the current weather, the price of food or the health of some obscure friend/relative. It seems,…
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Blizzard Granted Patent For Overwatch’s POTG System – Update
Editorial Update 26th June 2018 21:22 pm. Since the article was written we have been contacted to state that the patent has not been officially granted yet. The source material was incorrect and there are concerns raised about the unnecessarily proliferation of it. Instead, as a point of clarity Overwatch’s POTG…
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Blackberry Sue Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram
Blackberry It’s certainly been a rough 10 years for Blackberry. For a time their market share rivaled that of Nokia, then Apple came along and destroyed them. I must admit, I have always been a closet fan of their products, particularly their tablets which were admittedly bulky, but had some excellent…
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Samsung Patents Personal Flying Display Device
Samsung’s Hands-Free Innovation Samsung is a massive company with plenty of products under development. However, their latest patent reveals an interesting “hands-free” concept for a tablet. In fact, it is straight out of a science-fiction movie. Discovered by a Dutch tech website Let’s Go Digital initially, US Patent 9,891,885 is…
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Activision Battling Dog Poop Removal Service for Patent
Activision is enjoying the success of their newly launched Call of Duty: WWII. The game takes players back to World War II after the company’s recent efforts focusing on more modern battles. However, Activision is in the midst of a battle in real life as well. It is a legal…
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Dutch Courts Rule Against Asetek in Patent Suit vs CoolerMaster
Dutch courts have ruled against Asetek‘s patent claim against Cooler Master in the EU market. Although they have had success filing lawsuits against their competition in the US , the European courts believe otherwise. The ruling states that damages worth 113,000 Euros must be paid to Cooler Master for compensation.…
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Nintendo Switch Getting Sued Over Controller
Nintendoes well! Since it’s release in March, the Nintendo Switch has been the best-selling console so far this year. Easily blowing the PS4 or X-Box figures out the window, the success has far exceeded anyone’s expectations. With success though, generally comes law suits and in this instance, Nintendo is being…
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Nokia and Apple End Patent Claim Battle
After of a lot of legal wrangling and threats, Nokia and Apple have finally settled their patent legal actions. A ‘business agree’ has officially been reached to settle Nokia’s claim that Apple had infringed on their patents. What was the patent claim regarding? Nokia had taken legal action against Apple…
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NetFlix Sued Over Offline Download Feature
A company out of Delaware called Blackbird Technologies who owns US Patent No. 7,174,362 has filed a lawsuit against NetFlix, the streaming service giant, over their newly added offline download feature. This new feature was added less than two months ago, allowing subscribers to save some of the movie and…
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AMD Levels Patent Complaint For Graphics IP Infringement
Most of the time, patents and their associated licensing agreements fly under the radar. Sometimes, exceptional cases come up and parties end up battling it out in court. AMD is the latest to join the fray, leveling patent infringement complaints to the United States International Trade Commission. According to the complaint,LG, MediaTek, VIZIO…
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South Korea Hits Qualcomm With Record $850M Fine
Every now and then, regulators take a good hard look at a companies practice. Other than the usual targets like Apple and Microsoft, Qualcomm has been facing various investigations from different countries. In a recent development, the South Korean KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission) has fined the American firm a massive…
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Amazon Unveils Plans for Giant Warehouse Airships
Amazon is hoping to launch a series of massive airships which contain fully-stocked warehouses from which it can launch a fleet of drones to make super-fast deliveries. Revealed in a patent filed back in 2014, which was recently discovered by CBInsights analyst Zoe Leavitt, Amazon’s plan involves launching “airborne fulfilment…
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Nintendo Switch Underclocked in Handheld Mode?
A leaked patent has revealed some juicy titbits about the Switch, Nintendo’s forthcoming home/portable hybrid console, prior to its public unveiling in January 2017 and its subsequent release in March. The patent revealed that Nintendo is considering a VR headset for the Switch, but buried further down is the suggestion…
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BT Are Suing Valve Over Steam
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, we like to surprise you. Now it would seem that a company in the UK, British Telecom (more commonly known as BT) is looking to surprise everyone except Valve after claiming that they are now taking the company to court over patents…
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Disney Files Patent for ‘Real’ Lightsabers
It looks like the research team at Disney is cooking up something pretty special, as their Star Wars team wants to bring to movie to life with an “Audience Interaction Projection System,” which will allow visitors to get hands on and use real-life lightsabers, albeit in a safe and completely…
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