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RIM patents slide-out QWERTY

1:27 pm PST • February 29, 2008

We haven’t covered patents in quite some time, simply because companies patent everything and that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll ever produce them, but this patent filed by RIM seems to…

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Sprint and Vonage settle for $80 million

3:30 pm PDT • October 8, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Sprint ordered Vonage to cough up almost $70 million plus 5 percent of future revenue for patent infringement damages. Today the fiasco…

A recently published patent filed by Apple shows that the next iPod or iPhone may have a new way of displaying song lyrics. The patents shows that text displayed would…

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LG Sues Hitachi

10:52 am PDT • June 18, 2007

I really wanted to use the title “Big Trouble In Little China” but this showdown is taking place in both South Korea and the US. LG has filed suit in…

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Vonage May Skirt Patent Horrors

3:52 pm PDT • May 11, 2007

Another day, another Vonage store. It seems that there are some workarounds that Vonage is planning on using to let users call landlines over VoIP. For those not in the…

There’s an old episode of The Simpsons where the designers of Barbie stand-in Malibu Stacy are gathered in their smoky room trying to come up with a killer app to…

Donkey Kong – Post-It Note Edition iRobot Plunges Into the Depths (of Your Backyard Pool) History of Spy-Cam Watches DiscEraser: One Swipe For Total CD/DVD Data Destruction Patent Monkey: Olympus…

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Patent Monkey: The Wireless Printer Pen

9:54 am PDT • March 28, 2007

This week, Ericsson received a wireless printer-pen patent that can transfer hand writing to electronic text to send emails and receives content and can print it to special paper taking…

Can’t get to your cell phone when playing College Hoops 2K7? This new feature would allow you to use your game controller, PS3 and flat panel TV to see who’s…

Highlighted yesterday in the Washington Post, as well as covered more extensively by IP blogger Dennis Crouch at Patently-O, is the forthcoming new prototype of an open patent review process…

and is the focus of our IP-Review…

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Nokia Working On Diamond Casing

11:19 am PST • January 23, 2007

We’ve all seen an old movie where a burglar breaks into a home or store by cutting a window with a diamond. Thus, we should all know by now that…