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Apple patent talk: Keyboard users can have their work and muffins too

Dust and crumbs: Two keyboard imps that could make you a victim of a stuck key just when you need to finish work most.

Hi Tech & Innovation

Mar 11, 2018
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Why blockchain challenges conventional thinking about intellectual property

Cryptocurrencies are getting a lot of attention, but finance is only one of many applications of the blockchain technology behind it.

Business

Feb 27, 2018
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Samsung patent talk: Flying display right before your eyes

A display that can fly and be controlled by your eyes: Can the idea fly its way into a product of the future? Think drone with display that can detect a person's face, pupils, hand gestures and position.

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Feb 22, 2018
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Ford's patent application puts focus on autonomous police vehicles

Drivers thumbing their nose at speed limits may one day get a surprise when the police car springing out to nab them is driverless, if a concept from Ford were to be realized. The automaker filed for a patent for an autonomous ...

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Jan 27, 2018
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Designs on a foldable mobile phone cast spotlight on LG

Smartphone watchers are wagging tongues over what could possibly be up with Korea-based LG in what looks like bright ideas for a foldable phone.

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Jan 22, 2018
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A 360-degree rotation hinge design teases hopes for Microsoft phone win in 2018

Remember when Microsoft was actually aspiring to be mobile phone players? It seems like yesterday—but actually it was not so long ago. With the rise of the iPhone and flashy Android launches, the world got used to unsightly ...

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Dec 28, 2017
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Patent talk: Apple looks at voice assistance in whispers

(Tech Xplore)—Tell us another one. If you are at all like the rest of us, you wish the Siri-caller conversation could just stop, because you are working in the next cubicle or trying to read and re-read a paragraph in a ...

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Dec 16, 2017
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Google patent talk: laptop hinge and auto-align display convenience

(Tech Xplore)—Google-patent news this week is all about its patent application first filed back in 2013 calling for a motorized laptop hinge. That is where you have the luxury of opening and closing your little machine ...

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Nov 30, 2017
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Patent talk: Amazon looks at drones juicing up electric vehicles

(Tech Xplore)—Electric vehicles inspire a key question for a prospective buyer, and that is, what's the deal with battery life? Range? How far do I sit back in the car without leaning forward to fret over where and how ...

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Oct 19, 2017
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Patent talk: Apple offers strap solutions for satisfying fit

(Tech Xplore)—Not all wrists were created equal and the smartwatch that satisfies must not only work but feel comfortable. Otherwise, a "wearable" is a word that in and of itself does not fit. Apple thinks it has a solution ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 16, 2017
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Apple patent talk: Ultrasound-based force and touch sensing

(Tech Xplore)—Apple's patent filing addresses an ultrasound-based force and touch sensor, according to AppleInsider. This could lead to a thinner, less obstructive 3-D Touch mechanism, said the report.

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Sep 28, 2017
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Tesla patent talk: A battery-swapping system

(Tech Xplore)—Tesla has filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office, titled "Battery Swapping System and Techniques."

Energy & Green Tech

Sep 19, 2017
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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

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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