Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has announced it will purchase 1,500 of Microsoft's patents, many of those related to mobile software, as it marks the next step in its pursuit of Western expansion. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. While the Android maker dominates its home market with an intimidating 26% share of the fast-growing [...]
Snapchat’s patent, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, talks about seamlessly integrating Augmented Reality (AR) in real world scenarios. The technology uses GPS or similar system to determine a user’s location. After they’ve clicked a picture of a real world scenario (park for example), the technology then matches these images against its [...]
Patents from 1950's to 1960's, NASA and other contributors are deep into advanced technologies well beyond what they show us, there is much more going on than we can imagine, some of these patents are decades old, anti gravity tech has been around since the late 1800's, delve deep into the patents on artificial [...]
The legal team of Hindustan Unilever last month made a presentation on issues related to intellectual property rights to a rather unusual audience 14-year-old students from St Xaviers School in Bhandup, a central suburb of Mumbai. The country's largest consumer products company is keen to involve its future consumers in its fight against counterfeit [...]
Section 3(k) of the Patents Act excludes the following inventions from patentability: mathematical or business method; computer programs per se (by itself); or algorithm. What is confusing about the patentability of computer programs under section 3(k) is the use of the phrase ‘per se’. Until 2015, there was no uniformity among the four patent [...]
Supreme court agreed to hear about the another case of the America Invents Act: SAS institute's vs. Lee. The inter partes review focuses on whether the AIA permits USPTO to partially institute IPR proceedings as it has been always doing. SAS argues instead that the statute requires a full up/down vote on a petition [...]
