NEW YORK, April 4, 2017, EyeLock LLC, a leader of iris-based identity authentication solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 9,613,281. The patent broadly covers the linking of an iris image with a face image acquired in sequence (during the same transaction) and represents [...]
Microsoft Technology Licensing, the company's patent-licensing arm, has signed a new agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. The seemingly strange piece of this April 3 pact? The agreement between the two "includes broad coverage for smartwatch technologies," according to the Microsoft press release. Microsoft is believed to have exited completely the fitness band market [...]
In the bid to reduce patent litigation, Google has introduced new agreement called PAX, that aims to reduce patent infringement woes. All the member who sign up for PAX, essentially allows others to use their patented property for free. Google feels that this free sharing of patents will notably reducing lawsuits, create less trouble [...]
The provision of the America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C, was touted originally as a check against patent challenges using inter partes review (IPR), proceeding to attack patent serially on same or similar ground. That provision precludes an IPR petitioner, or the real party in interest or privy of the petitioner, from asserting invalidity challenges [...]
There was a time when professional film critics would review a film and inform the awaiting audience if it is a good or a bad film, do the actors perform well in it or if it is a film worth to spend money on along with a subtle hint about the plot. Such reviews [...]
How long should proceedings before EPO ideally take? Admitted this is a tricky question because various stakeholders’ will usually have different interests and thoughts so as to what the “right” or ideal “speed” is. Let us tackle this question by beginning with a simple distinction. In ex-parte proceedings, the main stakeholder is the applicant [...]
