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0	Apple Is Now Suing Samsung Over Autocorrect [Lawsuits] The seemingly endless litigation between Apple and Samsung continues with a report that Apple filed a complaint against Samsung in federal court this week. More » 0 Published 4 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Will New Apple Displays Optimize Themselves According to Surroundings? [Rumors] Apple's most recent screen successes have centered around the Retina display. But a new patent suggests that Apple has been working on displays that can react to their surroundings to dynamically improve t... 0 Published 4 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Texas Jury Smacks Down Latest Shakedown Attempts of Infamous Patent Troll [Lawsuits] Tim "I helped invent the Internet" Berners-Lee testified before a federal jury earlier this week, tearing into the validity of a key patent Eolas Technologies' was exploiting to sue multiple web companies ... 0 Published 4 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	New Apple Patent May Indicate a Touchscreen iMac—Or Maybe Not [Apple] Patents are as meaningful as tarot card readings. You see one that might, maybe, possibly mean something and you see a ton of crap. But still, even if it's incredibly awkward and tiring to use a 27-inch to... 0 Published 12 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The EU Is Investigating Samsung Over Unfair Patent Lawsuits [Samsung] When Samsung went on a patent lawsuit spree last year in the European courts, they may have reneged on an agreement they gave the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to license any "essential p... 0 Published 14 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	It's Time for Apple to Stop Patent Trolling [Apple] Intellectual property is important. There's no denying that. But there's a line between protecting yourself and just trying to kill everybody around you. It's one Apple has already crossed, and it's not do... 0 Published 21 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Kodak refuses to go away quietly, sues Samsung over five patents Two weeks ago, we reported that Kodak was looking into filing for bankruptcy if it couldn’t sell off enough of its patents. Kodak licenses some these to companies like LG, Motorola, and Nokia. A week after that report, Kodak sued both Apple and HTC ... 0 Published 27 days ago in The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0	Nokia Just Sold Hundreds of Its "Essential" Wireless Patents [Nokia] Sisvel International, the notorious IP management firm that made headlines in 2010 by teaming with Apple and Siemens to call in a police raid at the CeBIT trade show, is rearming itself. The company announ... 0 Published 31 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple's Thinking About Making iOS Interaction Like Using a Kinect [Apple] Apple's been looking at Kinect-like 3D gestures for a while now, and now it's filed for a new 3D GUI patent that would make using an iPhone or iPad a lot like a cross between a portable little Kinect and a... 0 Published 33 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Some Dude Wants $60m For a Patent Protecting The Distribution of URLs via SMS [Patents] There are a lot of sad sites at CES. But Robert Sanchez telling an empty room about his plans to sell a patent, that details delivery of URLs via text message, for $60m has to be one of the most desperate.... 0 Published 33 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Flailing Kodak Throws Patent Punches Apple's Way [Lawsuits] There aren't many details available yet, but Bloomberg is reporting that Kodak is suing Apple over four patent claims. Is it a last ditch effort for the near-bankrupt company to keep its head above water? ... 0 Published 35 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Microsoft Patents Directions That Help You Avoid Scary Neighborhoods [Patents] Microsoft has just received a patent for a new way to give you walking directions that take into account the many hardships you encounter while using your feet to get from place to place. More &raq... 0 Published 41 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Future MacBooks Could Be Powered by Fuel Cells [Apple] The latest patent application to come out of Cupertino could allow for new Macbooks that are slimmer, lighter, greener and could provide power for days without a charge. What's the magic ingredient? Fuel c... 0 Published 54 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HTC Already Has a Workaround For Its US Ban [Android] Earlier this week we reported how Apple had successfully won a case to remove several HTC Android handsets from the US market. Turns out the engineers at HTC have already found a workaround. More &... 0 Published 55 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	If Apple Wins We All Lose [Video] Yesterday's news that courts had ruled against HTC in favor of Apple was a tidy little victory for Apple. But HTC is just an initial skirmish in a much larger fight. The real war is against Android, and i... 0 Published 56 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HTC Android Phones Are Being Banned from the US Next Year [Android] Whoa. Apple just won a big court victory against HTC that could force HTC to stop selling its Android phones in the United States. The United States International Trade Commission ruled that HTC was infrin... 0 Published 57 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Future Riot Shields Will Suffocate Protestors with Low Frequency Speakers [Police] It's not the first crowd control tool to use sound waves, but Raytheon's patent for a new type of riot shield that produces low frequency sound waves to disrupt the respiratory tract and hinder breathing, ... 0 Published 62 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is the Crap Tablet Apple Thinks Samsung Must Make [Apple] This image shows Apple lawyers' wet dream for a Samsung tablet. It demonstrates one thing: the Apple lawyers who described it are imbeciles and/or clueless mischievous snakes. Just as much as Samsung's pro... 0 Published 67 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Motorola Wins Europe-Wide Sales Ban Against iOS Devices [Apple] Apple just found itself on the receiving-end of some legal hurt. Motorola has successfully sued Apple in Germany, paving the way for a Europe-wise sales ban on basically all iOS devices. Better get those A... 0 Published 67 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Can Watson's Mega-Brain Help Rid the World of Patent Trolls? [Science] IBM's Watson is most famous for handing Ken Jennings his ass on Jeopardy, but since then the supercomputer's talents have been used to help doctors diagnose and treat disease. But Watson's greatest trick m... 0 Published 67 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Continues Working On Kinect-Like Tracking With Projected Controls and Glasses-Free 3D [Apple] File this under cool shit we probably won't see for a long time. Apple just recently filed filed an expanded patent application for a system that would detect hand/head motion around a computer and let you... 0 Published 68 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	US Court Rules That Samsung Can Keep Selling Galaxy Products... For Now [Patent Wars] Galaxy fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief as Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung has been denied. But while the judge's ruling allows them to continue selling their products... 0 Published 72 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Google Now Owns the Pattern Unlock Gesture [Android] Apple's already got their simple and boring swipe to unlock gesture so it's only fitting that Google has been awarded Android's sweet pattern unlock method patent. You know the one, the unlock method in s... 0 Published 88 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Might Have to Stop Selling Products That Use iCloud in Germany Because of Motorola [Lawsuits] Over in the busy courts of Germany, Apple just suffered a little loss in a preliminary hearing that might snowball into a huge one: iCloud is potentially infringing on patents owned by Motorola. The Germa... 0 Published 88 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Just Changed the Galaxy Tab's Design Because of the iPad (OMG SOO DIFFERENT) [Patents] Apple and Samsung have been battling in German courts about whether the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stole ideas from the iPad or not (among other things). So to avoid the injunction, Samsung went ahead and changed th... 0 Published 90 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Flatscreen TV in 1932? [TV] The Danish audiophiles at AIAIAI have what they say are the first ever sketches of a flatscreen TV—from 80 years ago. Beyond an amazing artifact, the drawing raises questions for today: can you real... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	PlayStation Games Might Know How Stressed You Are Someday [Games] Sony filed a series of patents recently that would add biometric sensors to PlayStation 3 controllers and to a handheld resembling the Playstation Vita. How will gaming change when your console knows how ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Will Force Jonny Ive to Defend Apple's Copycat Claims [Patents] Apple is engaged in a very public lawsuit with Samsung, alleging that Samsung has gone too far in mimicking their product designs. Now Samsung is putting Apple's design guru Jonny Ive on the stand to expl... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Microsoft Says Their Licensing Agreements Are the Solution to the Patent Wars [Patents] In an interview with the SF Chronicle, Microsoft Attorney Horacio Gutiérrez argues against Google's claims that the software giant is extorting money from companies such as HTC in the form of licensing ag... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Now Owns the Unlock Slide Gesture [Apple] Whether you're sliding a bar or pulling a puzzle piece across your smartphone screen, you're performing an action patented by Apple. Seriously, any "predefined gesture" used to unlock a phone is now cover... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	If You Can't Get an Organ, an Organoid Might Do [Science] The line waiting for organ donors is 112,381 people long and growing, and 18 people daily die waiting. To help patients survive the interim, scientists are working on "organoinds"—mini organs that w... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Says the Galaxy Nexus Was Designed By Them (And Not from Apple Patents) [Android] Samsung's mobile president, Shin Jong-kyun, had some interesting comments regarding their brand spanking new Galaxy Nexus and ongoing patent war with Apple. He said that the Galaxy Nexus was specifically ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Judge Denies HTC's Claim of Patent Infringement Against Apple [Apple] Your daily update on the patent wars: HTC just lost a point against Apple, with judge finding that Apple didn't violate four HTC patents for power management and phone dialing. Dear lord, when will this e... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Tireless Samsung Wants iPhone 4S Ban in Japan and Australia [Samsung] Quixotic patent commando Samsung continues its doomed crusade against Apple, pushing for more national bans against the sale of the iPhone 4S. This time? Japan and Australia, where Sammy's lawyers say Apple's stealing mobile tech. This is g... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Even Samsung's Lawyers Can't Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad [Apple] Apple says Samsung's blatantly ripped off its device designs. Not true, Samsung replies! Too bad its lawyer blew that argument harder than a hydrogen bomb blowjob: they couldn't tell the difference betwee... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Amazon Trolls, Apple Manuals, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Left Behind] So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Intellectual Ventures Is Now Patent Trolling Motorola [Patents] Intellectual Ventures, led by former Microsoft exec and Modernist Cuisine mastermind Nathan Myhrvold, has taken Motorola to court over mobile products it says infringes upon patents it holds, including on... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Trying to Ban iPhone 4S in France and Italy [Apple] Tim Cook's probably still riding high off last night's coke-and-hooker iPhone 4S after party, and Samsung's already trying to ruin the fun. Reuters reports the bitter patent ex-girlfriend is seeking a tot... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Microsoft Files for Body Scan Patent to Know When You're Ready to Watch Porn [Patents] This will either be a godsend or a creepy nightmare. Microsoft recently filed for a patent that would allow the Kinect to scan your body size and proportions to guess your age. The idea is it'll determine... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Like HTC, Samsung now Pays Microsoft to Put Android On Its Phones [Patents] Samsung now pays Microsoft for the privilege of selling Android phones. Of course, it's being called a "partnership." And yes, we've seen this before: Microsoft also strong armed HTC into giving them a cu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Has Been Denied the Multitouch Trademark [Apple] It's not hyperbolic to say that Apple introduced multitouch to the masses with the iPhone. Apple thought that they could trademark it. Unfortunately for them, the United States Patent and Trademark Office... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Microsoft's Latest Patents Show a Smartphone Future That's Modular [Microsoft] The chameleonic nature of smartphones is a big reason why we love them so much. They shapeshift to fit our needs. But the most recent patents from Microsoft take that idea one step further, introducing mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Handed The Motherboard of All Patent Lawsuits [Blip] Another day, another patent lawsuit. Today's below-bridge dwelling plantiff is Taiwanese company VIA. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Patent Troll Goes After Core PCI-Express Technology and Anyone Using It One of our contacts recently made us aware of a new round of lawsuits, which could apparently apply to every major company in the world of personal computers. The list of defendants at includes the following: Alienware Corporation Advance... 0 Published 100+ days ago in AnandTech: Profile, Details
0	Will the New Patent Law Help or Hurt Innovation in America? [Patents] President Obama signed into law the American Invents Act this past Friday with the intent of reforming the patent process in the U.S. But will it streamline the process or provide more fuel for the antics... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Already Trying To Ban the iPhone 5 [Apple] The next iPhone will be out soon, and Samsung's legal team is going to be nice and ready for it: the company's told the Korea Times that it's already working on a national sales ban. Somehow I doubt Apple... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Google Arms Itself With 1000 Patents From IBM [Blip] Google's on a patent buying spree to protect Android. The search giant recently grabbed Motorola, its hardware and 17,000 patents for a cool $12.5 billion and scooped up another 1,023 patents from IBM. G... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Wants to Halt All Motorola Patent Lawsuits [Patent Wars] One of Apple 3rd Reich's patent war fronts is Motorola. Out of desperation, Motorola sued Apple first; then Apple sued Motorola. Now, Apple has asked the court to halt all Motorola patent suits, alleging ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Wins Round Two Against Galaxy Tab in German Courts [Apple] Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement once, shame on you. Rule against the Galaxy Tab for patent infringement twice, well, that's when maybe Samsung's screwed for real. In Germany, at least.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HTC Arms Itself With Patents From Google, Strikes Back At Apple [Android] HTC isn't backing down in its legal battle with Apple. The Taiwanese handset maker obtained nine new patents from Google last week and is using them in a new offensive against Apple. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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