What Kim Kardashian and Apple Have in Common Both are suing over alleged infringement of intellectual property rights having to do with look-a-likes. Apple claims the new Galaxy tablet is a mimic and that Samsung "copied...
Clone Lawsuit Alleges Cloning! Ah, the irony. A Chinese company by the name of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co is preparing to sue Apple if the iPad enters the Chinese market. This company...
The North Face Sues The South Butt A popular outdoor product company, The North Face, is suing a student-founded start-up company, The South Butt, for trademark infringement. The North Face complaint includes...
Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement A Texas-based company called TechRadium filed suit against Twitter Tuesday, August 4, 2009, in the Southern District of Texas, alleging patent infringement. TechRadium is...
Microsoft Emotiflag Patent Microsoft managed to land a patent grant for emotiflags this past week despite well-known prior usage. The IP team member at Microsoft who received the Notice of Allowance...
A company out of Nebraska, Prism Technologies LLC, has sought an import ban on the Blackberry Curve model claiming patent infringement. The Curve model is one of the iPhone’s fiercest competitors. Read more here.
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.