Qualcomm is taking its legal battle with Apple to the companies who actually build the iPhones and iPads. On Wednesday, the mobile chip giant said it's suing four Taiwan-based Apple contract manufacturers -- Foxconn, Compal, Wistron and Pegatron -- for not paying royalties to Qualcomm for its patents on smartphone technology like cellular modems. [...]
Filed in September 2015, the concession is the ability to use Apple's Pencil, or more generally a stylus with all the sensors of the pencil of Cupertino, with a wide range of devices, including iPhone and even the touch pad of the MacBook. The possibility that Apple Pencil arrivals on the iPhone is not [...]
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 [...]
Aylus Networks, Inc. (“Aylus”) owns the ’412 patent, which “provides systems and methods for implementing digital home networks having a control point located on a wide area network.” The patent teaches various network architectures for streaming and displaying media content using combinations of networked components. These networked components include: (1) a media server (“MS”); [...]
The USPTO has lost it again. Every now and then the EFF points out “Stupid Patents” (of the month) and the above certainly merits the title. It only got press attention because the media is obsessed with (and paid by) Apple. It’s a symptom of a problem which we also see at the EPO. [...]
Apple’s complaint is being adjudicated by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court, in order to successfully argue its case, Apple will have to prove that at least 50% of consumer associate “think Different” with apple branding. Apple is being represented by Zurich law firm Lenz & Staehelin, which filed concurrent but unsuccessful complaints with Swiss [...]
