Breaking report from ZatzNotFunny! reveals the recent filing by TiVo seeking $1 billion in contempt sanctions from DISH/EchoStar in the patent dispute involving DVR technology.  Last fall, EchoStar announced they were finally going to pay up the $104 million jury award to TiVo since the Supreme Court denied their petition for certiorari.  The contempt sanctions now sought stem from the injunction granted against EchoStar and the infringing DVRs.  Think EchoStar wants to hit rewind?

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was awarded a patent issuance on U.S. Patent 7,559,085 on July 7, 2009, for a method and system of detecting deceptively similar domain names.  Watch out DN spoofers! You may be added to a table in a system.

(hat tip: domainnamewire.com)

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Apple recently filed three new patent applications leading to rumors of iPhone 4G features.  Here is the patent application related to haptic feedback technology.  For more on haptics, see this Wiki entry.

Macworld has an interesting article about three new Apple patent applications that are generating rumors about possible new features in a next generation iPhone release. Advanced haptic technology, biometric scanning, and RFID capabilities . . . there’s an app for that too.

The Americans with Disabilities Act was designed to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination and provide them with equal opportunities.  And here is one patent that ensures that legislative goal for indviduals who are wheelchair bound and yet still wish to wield a firearm with sufficient range of motion.  Gun Aiming Device for a Wheelchair