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...
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
In the wake of the recent death of Michael Jackson, many worldwide are remembering his music, his dancing, and the early years in the Jackson 5. But how many remember him as an inventor and patentee? Perhaps the attorney who drafted the patent application, or Examiner Patterson, who recognized the inventive novelty during prosecution. I’ll venture to guess few even knew Michael Jackson also wore the inventor hat in addition to that cool fedora. Read more here.