Patents. What is a patent?
A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted. There are three types of patents. Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Patent US8046721 - Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image - Google Patents. This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser.
Apple v. Samsung: What the analysts are saying. FORTUNE -- Because the jury didn't deliver its verdict in the big Apple v.
Samsung patent infringement suit until after the markets closed Friday -- and because Wall Street tends to take the weekend off, especially in the summer -- we had to wait a couple days to hear from most of the Apple (AAPL) analysts. But now their reactions to the verdict have started to pour in, and they're all over the lot. Meanwhile in Seoul, Samsung's shares took their biggest one-day hit in four years, falling roughly 7.5% on the Korean stock exchange.
In New York, Apple opened at $679.99, up $16.77 (2.5%) from Friday's close. Excerpts from the analysts' notes below (newest items on top): Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse. In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC.
He was the co-founder of a small computer startup down the road, in Cupertino. His name was Steve Jobs. The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader-Piracy Against Apple, It's A Cultural Thing. Piracy Against Apple, It's A Cultural Thing August 23rd, 1999 "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
" Alan Kay, Group Leader Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1972 "Good artists create. Great artists steal. " Father of the Mouse: Doug Engelbart. An exclusive interview in SuperKids Software Review. Many people mistakenly believe that the mouse was invented by Apple.
Triumph of the Nerds. Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires is a 1996 three hour American PBS documentary film that explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from WWII to 1995.
The title,Triumph of the Nerds, is a play on the 1984 comedy, Revenge of the Nerds'.[2] Cringely followed the series with Nerds 2.0.1, a history of the Internet to 1998 (the year of its debut). In 2012, Cringely released the full interview that Steve Jobs gave in 1995 for Triumph of the Nerds as the film Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. Partial cast[edit] Reception and influence[edit] Triumph of the Nerds was a successful series and Cringely noted in a 1998 interview that it was "a stalwart of [PBS] pledge drives all across America. Mighty Mouse - March/April 2002. In 1980, Apple Computer asked a group of guys fresh from Stanford's product design program to take a $400 device and make it mass-producible, reliable and cheap.
Their work transformed personal computing. Dean Hovey was hungry. His young industrial design firm, Hovey-Kelley Design, had been working on projects for Apple Computer for a couple of years but wanted to develop entire products, not just casings and keyboards. Hovey had come to pitch Apple co-founder Steven Jobs some ideas. But before he could get started, the legendary high-tech pioneer interrupted him. Hovey was dumbfounded. What did Steve Jobs mean when he referenced, “Good artists copy, Great artists steal” The following video of Steve Jobs, shot during the 1996 filming of “Triumph of the Nerds” has been getting a lot of traction today in light of Apple’s lawsuit against HTC for allegedly infringing on 20 of Apple’s patents.
In the video below, Jobs references a quote from Picasso and states, “Good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Press Info - Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement. 4 ways the Apple-Samsung verdict affects your phone - Aug. 27. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) On Monday, Apple requested an injunction against eight Samsung devices, including multiple variations of the Galaxy S and S II, the Droid Charge and the Galaxy Prevail.
A California jury on Friday found that those smartphones violated patents including pinch-zooming, bounce-back scrolling and the appearance of icons on the screen. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh will consider the injunction on Sept. 20, and if she grants it, Samsung could be forced to take those gadgets off the market.
The case was between Apple and Samsung only, but the ruling could force other major smartphone companies to make big changes. "There are so many patents in a single phone, and these patent wars are raging every day in courts around the world," said Mike Carrier, professor at Rutgers Law School. Shelly Palmer: Apple v. Samsung: The Good, The Bad and The Sad. The first round of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit is over and Apple has emerged victorious. In case you haven't been following it, Apple sued Samsung for $2.5 billion for infringing on seven of its patents.
Samsung countersued for approximately $400 million because it needed to save face. It took the jury less than three days to find in favor of Apple for just over $1 billion in damages and, just to stick it to Samsung, they threw out Samsung's countersuit. I'm calling this the first round because Samsung will most likely file an appeal. Apple verdict: Set to stifle or spur innovation? After Apple's patent infringement victory over Samsung, many are asking: "What next?
" Lawyer Christopher Carani: The Apple verdict is a victory for consumers, design rights and the patent systemApple's competitors, including Samsung, will now need to steer clear of Apple's designs Carani believes the best way to compete with Apple's designs is not to emulate but to out-design Editor's note: Christopher V. Carani is a partner at Chicago-based intellectual property law firm McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
He is a leading voice on intellectual property law and an expert in design law. He is chair of the American Bar Association's Design Rights Committee. Apple and Samsung Respond to Verdict in Patent Case. Samsung and Apple have both issued statements regarding the jury's verdict in the long-running patent dispute. The jury found that Samsung willfully infringed on many of Apple's design patents and awarded the Cupertino giant $1 billion in damages. Samsung, understandably, is unhappy with the decision. In a statement, the company didn't pull any punches, saying: "Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. For its part, Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton told The New York Times: "We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we were thrilled to be able to finally tell it.
Apple injunction hearing against Samsung phones set for Dec. 6 - Tech Talk. Double standard. Congruent. Dansk (Danish) adj. - overensstemmende, kongruent Nederlands (Dutch) overeenstemmend, congruent Français (French)adj. - correspondant, adéquat, (Math, gén) congru (à) Deutsch (German)adj. - übereinstimmend, deckungsgleich. Define Injunction at Dictionary. Define Patent at Dictionary. Word Origin & History. In Technology Wars, Using the Patent as a Sword. For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on writing software to allow computers to understand human speech. In 2006, he had co-founded a voice recognition company, and eventually executives at Apple, Google and elsewhere proposed partnerships. Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement. S Korea bans some Apple and Samsung products - Business.
Apple and Samsung have been banned from selling some of their products in South Korea, after a court ruled that they both infringed on each other's patents on mobile devices. The court ruling on Friday comes as the two firms are locked in a bitter patent battle that could determine their fight for supremacy in the global smartphone market.
Apple And Samsung Swap Patent Violations In South Korea - Galaxy Nexus, iPhone 4, And Others Banned. South Korea Court Banned Sales of Apple's iPhone 4, iPad 2 and Samsung's Galaxy S, SII and Nexus.