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. Here is the process for obtaining a utility patent. Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. View the different types of patent applications. 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. No. 11/322,549, filed Dec. 23, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,657,849 which application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,550, titled “Indication of Progress Towards Satisfaction of a User Input Condition,” filed Dec. 23, 2005, which application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. The disclosed embodiments relate generally to user interfaces that employ touch-sensitive displays, and more particularly, to the unlocking of user interfaces on portable electronic devices.
Touch-sensitive displays (also known as “touch screens” or “touchscreens”) are well known in the art. Touch screens are becoming more popular for use as displays and as user input devices on portable devices, such as mobile telephones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The RF (radio frequency) circuitry 112 receives and sends electromagnetic waves.
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): BMO's Keith Bachmann: Battle Royal.
The $1 billion in awards would add approximately 1% to Apple's cash balance.If Apple is able to obtain injunction so that Samsung is not able to sell devices in the US, Apple could see some share shift. Wedbush's Scott Sutherland: Battle Far From Over. Jefferies' Peter Misek: Key Takeaway. 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. Xerox PARC was the innovation arm of the Xerox Corporation. It was, and remains, on Coyote Hill Road, in Palo Alto, nestled in the foothills on the edge of town, in a long, low concrete building, with enormous terraces looking out over the jewels of Silicon Valley.
To the northwest was Stanford University’s Hoover Tower. Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. An engineer named Larry Tesler conducted the demonstration. Xerox began selling a successor to the Alto in 1981. “If Xerox had known what it had and had taken advantage of its real opportunities,” Jobs said, years later, “it could have been as big as I.B.M. plus Microsoft plus Xerox combined—and the largest high-technology company in the world.”
This is the legend of Xerox PARC. 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. " This famous quote by Picasso lingers on the screen at the beginning of the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley as a twisted summation of the whole film. Trigem is the principle instigator behind the US front company eMachines, maker of the iMac look-a-like PC, eOne. Picasso hardly meant that great artists steal popular designs whose original source is known to everyone. Picasso and his chums did as much with West African art by noticing the genius inherent in African totems and fetishes found fading in the museums of Europe. When the movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, used Picasso's famous quote, they implied that the Apple engineers were the good artists and the Microsoft engineers the great artists.
Apologists for Microsoft point out that the Apple engineers, led by Mr. Father of the Mouse: Doug Engelbart. An exclusive interview in SuperKids Software Review. Many people mistakenly believe that the mouse was invented by Apple. Others believe that Steve Jobs stole the idea from Xerox, where the mouse was used on an early office PC called the Star. But in truth, the mouse was first conceived of by Doug Engelbart in the early 1960’s, then a scientist at the Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, California. SuperKids recently visited with Doug in the offices of his current venture, Bootstrap, Inc. SuperKids: What were you working on when you came up with the idea for the mouse? Or you could give the mouse a push and lift it off the desk, and watch the cursor continue moving while the disc was spinning. 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 Steve Wozniak discussed the film on the letters portion of his official website stating: "I liked Triumph of the Nerds.
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview[edit] The original interview that Jobs gave to Cringely for Triumph of the Nerds lasted about 70 minutes. 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. “Stop, Dean,” Hovey recalls Jobs saying. Hovey was dumbfounded. Jobs told him about an amazing computer, code-named Alto, he had just seen at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Just one problem: a commercial mouse based on the Xerox technology cost $400, malfunctioned regularly and was nearly impossible to clean. They did. When Hovey-Kelley was asked to design the Apple mouse, the firm was a two-year-old start-up. Fail? 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.”
Meanwhile, in Apple’s press release yesterday, Steve Jobs explained why Apple is suing HTC: We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. So what’s the verdict, folks? Or are we totally missing the thrust of what Jobs is getting at? To figure that out, we’ll first have to drill down and figure out what exactly Picasso was trying to say.
Many artists have interpreted Picasso’s quote to mean that to copy a painting, for example, is to simply copy what you see without bringing your own perspective and original ideas to the table. 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. The trial's complexity has left even industry experts mixed on how the ripple effect will play out, but here's what you, the consumer, need to know: Related story: Apple-Samsung case is 'far from over' 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. From Samsung's point of view, this is a fight to the death, and Samsung is unlikely to give up any time soon. The Good Apple's victory is a victory for every inventor and innovator. Several of my learned colleagues have admonished that Apple is a huge company and its overt use of lawsuits as a competitive tool is unwarranted, unsportsmanlike and unnecessary.
The Bad Samsung offers some extraordinary alternatives to iDevices. Don't get me wrong. 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.
Chicago (CNN) -- In the wake of Apple's patent infringement victory over Samsung, many are asking: "What are the practical implications and repercussions of the verdict? " For now, the verdict should be viewed as a victory for consumers, industrial designers, design rights and the patent system in general. Christopher V. Apple vs. 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. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.
Consumers have the right to choices, and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products. For its part, Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton told The New York Times: Apple injunction hearing against Samsung phones set for Dec. 6 - Tech Talk. The next phase of the Apple-Samsung patent infringement saga has been scheduled for December 6. That is the date on which Lucy Koh, the presiding judge in the closely-watched trial, will hear Apple's motion for an injunction against eight Samsung mobile phones, as well as the South Korean electronics giant's expected motion to have the jury's verdict set aside. "Having considered the scope of Apple's preliminary injunction request, the additional post-trial motions that the parties have already filed and will file, and the substantial overlap between the analysis required for Apple's preliminary injunction motion and the parties' various other posttrial motions, the Court believes consolidation of the briefing and hearing on the post-trial motions is appropriate," Koh said today in a court filing (PDF).
Following Friday's unanimous decision in favor of Apple's patent claims against Samsung, Apple yesterday detailed which Samsung devices it wants banned from sale in the U.S. 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 Ελληνική (Greek)adj. - αντίστοιχος, ανάλογος, ομοιόμορφος Italiano (Italian)congruente, compatibile, corrispondente Português (Portuguese)adj. - congruente, congruente (Mat.), adequado, harmonioso Русский (Russian)соответствующий, конгруэнтный Español (Spanish)adj. - congruente Svenska (Swedish)adj. - överensstämmande, kongruent 中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))适合的, 符合的, 一致的 中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))adj. - 適合的, 符合的, 一致的 한국어 (Korean)adj. - 일치하는, 조화하는 日本語 (Japanese)adj. - 合同の, 一致する العربيه (Arabic) (صفه) متطابق, موافق, ملائم עברית (Hebrew)adj. - מתאים, חופף, יאה If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.
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