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Patent talk: Making car pillars seem transparent explored by Toyota

(Tech Xplore)—Big pillars may be a safety benefit for cars but what about driver visibility? "Since cars were first invented in 1886, the A-pillars have become wider, to help protect the cars in the instance of a crash. ...

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Aug 17, 2017
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Patent talk: Car can respond to potential collision by altering car surface rigidity

(Tech Xplore)—Google has already emblazoned brand recognition to the phrase "driverless cars" but what about a new twist in soft driverless cars if and when applicable for safety sake?

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Aug 15, 2017
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Patent talk: Microsoft looks at how to thwart laptop thieves

(Tech Xplore)—Oh no you don't. Laptop thieves cannot get far if a Microsoft patent proposal has any say in the matter.

Consumer & Gadgets

Jun 27, 2017
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Patent talk: A system to guide price-touring shopper back to base

(Tech Xplore)—As if Amazon did not garner enough of the recent headlines with its $13.7 bill move to rope in Whole Foods, there is now a patent headline to digest. With the patent news, the drums are getting louder to signal ...

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Jun 20, 2017
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Facebook patent explores smartphone camera emotion detection to deliver relevant content

(Tech Xplore)—Think about it, that so-important entity in your life, Facebook, getting to know your emotional state and delivering content suited to how you feel.

Internet

Jun 09, 2017
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Samsung patent application explores watch rim for second display

(Tech Xplore)—The word small in digital gadgetry usually gets a bad reception. Small screen, small fonts, small display, are descriptives that usually draw frowns if not apologies. Samsung is another story.

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Mar 28, 2017
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Laptop to smartphone: I feel like an empty shell without you

(Tech Xplore)—In patent news, what are all these Apple-centric headers about this week? Something about turning an iPhone and iPad into a laptop? A phone-powered modular MacBook? A superdock?

Consumer & Gadgets

Mar 25, 2017
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Sony patent application talks about method for wirelessly juicing up devices via NFC

(Tech Xplore)—Wirelessly charging your phone using your friend's phone? You have to hand it to Sony for bright ideas. James Milne, True Xiong and Charles McCoy are named as the inventors on a Sony patent application published ...

Energy & Green Tech

Mar 17, 2017
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Patent talk: Could an Apple device offer charge boost by winding?

(Tech Xplore)—Such a concept. Adding extra battery life to your Apple Watch simply by winding up the digital crown.

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Feb 19, 2017
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Apple patent for display panel with IR diodes refuels rumor mill over next iPhone

(Tech Xplore)—Heard all the rumors about the iPhone home button? Your future handset might have you groping for that home button that is no longer there, according to the rumors. And fingerprint scanners will go to work ...

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Feb 17, 2017
20
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Apple files patent presenting vaporizer concept, tech watchers explore possible use

(Tech Xplore)—Apple to the core of the public's brand recognition is primarily phones, laptops, tablets and their varied accessories. So why did Apple file a patent application in July last year, and released on January ...

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Jan 31, 2017
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Amazon looks at airships as fulfillment idea in patent filing

(Tech Xplore)—Amazon has come up with a neat idea. Whether the idea will ever come to pass as a real move is not certain. However, CB Insights noticed a patent filing where Amazon was suggesting the AFC approach to deliver ...

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Dec 30, 2016
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Apple patent application shows ideas for capturing info to identify device thieves

(Tech Xplore)—Some consumers as we know are brand-crazy, or in more polite terms, brand-conscious. Apple has done a magnificent job over the years to build its name as a coveted brand. Small wonder that many people scream ...

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Aug 28, 2016
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Patent talk looks at Disney audience interaction idea involving lightsabers

(Tech Xplore)—A lightsaber to deflect lasers? And you? In a special room where you can do battle? What kind of stairway to heaven is this? For Star Wars fans, divine news: there has been a patent filed which focuses on ...

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Aug 22, 2016
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Patent patter: Tanks not on Apple's to-do list

Did an error serve a military vehicle patent to the stylish company that brings you phones and featherweight PCs to cry for if not die for? Lawyers said a vehicle patent assigned to Apple was in error, reported Patently Apple ...

Engineering

Aug 11, 2016
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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.

The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements. Typically, however, a patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must be new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. In many countries, certain subject areas are excluded from patents, such as business methods and mental acts. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention without permission.

Under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, patents should be available in WTO member states for any inventions, in all fields of technology, and the term of protection available should be minimum twenty years. Different types of patents may have varying patent terms (i.e., durations).

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