U.s. Patent And Trademark Office
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Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down'
News Software maker has been granted a U.S. patent on navigating paginated content in page-based increments; closing in on total tally of 10,000 patents.
Tags: Patents, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Patent, Page, software company, Mouse, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, software, keyboard
Apple planning a laptop with a camera latch?
News A patent application the company filed in March 2004 hints at a new Mac laptop feature.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets
U.S. may revise Net patent process
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Internet watchdog challenges VoIP patent
News The civil liberties group says it has found a prior patent and reference material to invalidate a bogus voice over Internet Protocol patent.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Patents, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Phone, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent system, Patents, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony
Microsoft asks for stay of Word injunction
News Software maker also asks court to quickly hear an appeal of the order, which threatens to halt sales of Microsoft Word in its current form.
Tags: Business applications, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, software company, Microsoft Office, Best Buy Co. Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Word, XML
Dell battles over 'Netbook' trademark
News The PC maker asks the USPTO to cancel Canadian gadget maker's trademark, saying Psion doesn't make a product that actually uses the term.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Acer Inc., U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Psion, ASUS, Dell Inspiron, mobile computer, Dell Computer Corp.
TiVo sues AT&T, Verizon over DVR patents
News TiVo alleges AT&T and Verizon are violating three of its DVR patents, in a repeat of the tack it took against Dish/EchoStar.
Tags: DVR, Verizon Communications Inc., Patent, intellectual property, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc.
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News Linux Defenders is asking the open source community to help find examples of prior art to fend off action based on poor-quality patents.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, IP, Linux Defenders, Linux Defenders Effort, prior art, software, Linux Community
Apple, CBS sued over 'Mighty Mouse' device
News In patent dispute, Maryland-based company says it manufactured a mouse of the same name before Apple released its device.
Tags: Patents, Keyboards and mice, Apple Inc., CBS Corp., Mouse, Computer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Maryland, peripheral company, News.com
Apple granted patent on Mac OS X Dock
News The trademark application launcher in Mac OS X is now covered by a patent.
Tags: Mac OS, Patents, Apple Inc., Patent, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, CEO, News.com
Dell loses 'cloud computing' trademark bid
News The company has been given a further six months to convince the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to grant a patent on the term "cloud computing".
Tags: Patents, Utility computing, Officer, Cloud Computing, computer hardware, Environment, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, RFC, blog, data center
US patent ruling bodes well for tech
News A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals should weed out trivial patent lawsuits, but will require companies to be more specific about what process they have invented.
Tags: Patents, Patent, Computer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Hardware, software, Computer & Communications Industry Association, technology company, News.com, industry
Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?
News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?
Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea
Apple files 'swipe-gesture' patent application
News Technology lets touchscreen users perform certain common functions, such as inserting a space or backspacing by swiping across the key area rather than tapping a particular key.
Tags: Patents, Handhelds, Apple Inc., touchscreen keyboard, Touch Screen, intellectual property, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, keyboard, News.com, Apple iPhone
AT&T wins round in patent case
News Federal court sided with AT&T over one aspect of a complex patent lawsuit it filed against Microsoft.
