Apple has reportedly filed another crazy patent, this time catering to digitizing tickets for concerts and events. This new patent will be applied to the iPhone and the iPod Touch and was filed last September, 2008. The system would near field communications technology where your iPhone or iPod would be swiped allowing you entry to [...]

Here is something weird. Normally you would think that Apple would be doing all the suing from a little-known company for some infringement or patents violations. This time it is the other way around. A Chinese company called Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co. is reportedly suing Apple for the iPad design, a patent …

Apple has filed a new patent and this time it has something to do with solar cells. These solar cells will be chiefly responsible for maintaining the power requirements of the iPhone or the iPod to make sure that the Apple device doesn’t conk out on you when you are using it to make important [...]

Patent issues seem to be growing in numbers and there is one between Motorola and VTech. The issue involves six Motorola patents asserted against VTech but it seems that both parties have settled the patent issue after entering a Settlement and Licensing Agreement. This ends their pending patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas. [...]

We have heard of text-to-speech technology but what about image-to-music? All it takes is a software program to make it happen and if rumors are true, we may just see some pixels belching out some kind of note or tune soon. But surprisingly, some group has claimed that it has been around and even has [...]

Samsung and Kodak have been fighting a long and hard battle — not to mention costly battle — over patents. Now the two firms have agreed to end the fighting, and have reached an agreement which includes a technology cross-license, allowing each to access the other’s portfolio. We got the full press release after the [...]

While Nokia and Apple are fighting hard in the courts over a patent case, Nokia has gone even further, and has filed a complaint with the Internal Trade Commission, where it alleges that Apple’s iPhone infringes on several patents ranging from user interfaces to cameras, antennas, and power management as well. The Internal Trade Commission [...]

RIM and Motorola have reportedly been sued by Klausner Technologies for infringing patents related to visual voice mail on mobile phones. It seems that the cat was let out of the bag the moment the Blackberry Bold 9700 hit the market. And apparently, it looks like a number of Blackberry and Motorola handsets are affected [...]

Nokia has sued Apple for infringement rights on certain Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN standards. The complaint was officially filed at Federal District Court in Delaware where Nokia claims that their patents were infringed by all Apple iPhone models since 2007. Nokia has been a known leader in GSM development and has [...]

Apple has been sued by Taiwan based manufacturer Elan Microelectronics Corp. for reportedly infringing two of its patents for touchscreen technology. The lawsuit, filed in a US District Court here on Tuesday, accuses Apple of infringing on Elan patents in its iBook, PowerBook and MacBook portable computers, the iPhone smartphone and the iPod Touch digital [...]