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The American patent system was designed initially to stimulate innovation, but the dynamics of the patent system have changed in recent decades. Some citizens argue that it’s actually hurting innovation, limiting access to technology, and promoting unethical areas of research and innovation. Public health activists have filed lawsuits stating that patents create monopolies that make good health unaffordable and inaccessible for many. […]
Enlarge / Nothing like cartoony smiley faces to break down how smartphones, local networks, and TV devices could join forces to trigger microphones and listen to advertisements’ audio. (credit: US Patent + Trademark Office) As Facebook tries to get ahead of public pressure about what the service does and doesn’t track about its users, a […]
Enlarge / Under the Federal Circuit appeals court, patent law swung from software patent skepticism in the 1970s to extreme permissiveness in the 1990s, then started to swing back toward skepticism with stricter Supreme Court oversight. (credit: Federal Circuit Historical Society / Aurich Lawson) Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, […]
Tesla’s solar roof tiles are revolutionary because they look like regular shingles. They cut out the need for unsightly solar panels while delivering about 98 percent of the efficiency of normal solar panels, which is quite the feat. Now, thanks to Electrek‘s discovery of Tesla’s patent application for these tiles, we have a better idea […]
Sony may have given fans an insight into one of the big new features for the PS5. A recent Sony patent suggests the company is looking at new DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology. Instead of the unreliable method currently employed by certain companies, the proposed DRM solution will use blockchain technology. “Many current digital rights […]
Anybody familiar with Nintendo’s hardware history knows better than to expect the company to rest on its laurels. Sure enough, as the company’s Switch continues racking up sales, a hint at its next portable system has already arisen in the form of a patent that is too bonkers to ignore. Patents, after all, can be […]
Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor is built on stolen tech — that’s what a lawsuit filed against the company is claiming, at least. A Michigan-based health startup called Omni MedSci is accusing Cupertino of using technology on the Watch that infringes on four of its patents, all of which reference the use of a light […]
When Apple unveiled its 2015 MacBook, reviewers quickly discovered its keys were flatter than ever, with single-digit millimeters of travel between their pressed and unpressed states. At first, we heralded this as a miraculous accomplishment in ever-thinner laptop computing, which carried over virtually unchanged into the next years’ models. But all was not well. The […]
Enlarge / This is a screen grab from the forthcoming Clicker Heroes 2. (credit: Playsaurus) Playsaurus, a small Los Angeles-based game studio that makes Clicker Heroes and the upcoming Clicker Heroes 2, has recently been threatened with a lawsuit if it doesn’t pay $ 35,000 for a patent licensing fee to cover a patent for “electronic […]
While you might have been too busy considering the leisure possibilities inherent in autonomous vehicles, Ford Global Technologies was not. The division that owns, manages and commercializes patents and copyrights for Ford applied for a patent for an autonomous police vehicle (APV) in 2016. Said vehicle is a long way off, but should it ever […]
