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Microsoft pips Apple to iPod patent
News While Microsoft has struggled to challenge the iPod in the market, the software giant's lawyers have managed to slow Apple Computer's attempt to patent its digital music technology. Apple will continue to pursue this patent application, as well as...
[August 15, 2005, 10:15]
Apple tries to patent iPod interface
News Apple is trying to patent the interface for its iPod music player. In its patent application 20040055446, published on Thursday, Apple describes a graphical user interface "and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player".
[March 29, 2004, 14:40]
Apple tries to patent iPod interface
Talkback Patent Application stands very little chance of being approved as there are Mobile Phone based Services in Europe that have adopted very similar, if not identical, structures. Apple Computer's iPOD U.I.
[April 1, 2004, 19:06]
iPod crash protection patent published
News The company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable computing device to detect when it is falling and then stop reading or writing to the hard drive. The portable computing device protects its disk drive by monitoring for...
[December 24, 2004, 8:50]
Apple tries to patent iPod interface
Talkback Why not patent also size and weight ?
[March 30, 2004, 8:58]
Microsoft pips Apple to iPod patent
Talkback Good Lord man, a simple Google of US Patent law would reveal that Microsoft's patent is PENDING approval and will definately be denied due to "prior art". The story should read "Microsoft tries to patent Apple technology.
[August 15, 2005, 22:32]
Microsoft pips Apple to iPod patent
Talkback I expect that after several years of back and forth, ultimately, the MSFT patent will be revoked as frivolous. Apple was very likely first to invent here, since the iPod was on the shelves before the MSFT application was filed.Even if MSFT was...
[August 15, 2005, 17:58]
Microsoft pips Apple to iPod patent
Talkback Did you know you can now get insurance, that protects you against is litigation by microsoft over core linux technology patent infringement? Thank god the European Patent Directive got thrown out! "All your patents are belong to us!
[August 15, 2005, 11:00]
Apple tries to patent iPod interface
Talkback Whatever next, a patent app for the colour of the screen, for the type of buttons used on the case. And you cannot patent a method. Or I shall apply for a patent for the method in which a device is switched on and I'll sue every electrical...
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
Apple pays $100m to end Creative battle
News The patent applies to portable media players, which includes devices such as the iPod or mobile phones that have the ability to play music, he said. The $100m, to be paid by Apple, grants Apple a licence to a Creative patent for the hierarchical...
[August 24, 2006, 9:00]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
News I'd be the first to say that the patent system can always be tuned -- including the US patent system. Gates spoke with ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com on the eve of his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to discuss...
[January 6, 2005, 12:20]
Patent and event reignite iPhone rumours
News A newly published Apple patent application has reignited rumours of the almost mythical "iPhone", on the eve of a press event in San Francisco. Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March...
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
Patent Rules
Downloads This application allows you to browse the Patent Local Rules for five federal judicial districts with your iPhone or iPod Touch. No network connection is required, but if you are connected you can mail any rule or subsection using your device&apos...
[February 7, 2009, 11:20]
RealNetworks muscles into iPod
News Boston patent attorney Bruce Sunstein said courts have issued mixed opinions on how much reverse engineering is allowed for purposes such as making compatible products. RealNetworks is expected to announce on Monday that it has unlocked some of...
[July 26, 2004, 8:55]
Musical tribute to iPod and Treo
News Women's shoe brand Nine West also has a trademark on Treo for use "in the field of shoes and of accessories, namely handbags, belts and hosiery", according to the US Patent and Trademark Office's Web site.
[December 6, 2001, 15:27]
Apple's misplaced Creativity
Leader Still Creative claimed the patent, and went to war on the back of it. That patent was granted in 2001, more than 20 years after Xerox had shown how to integrate data with interfaces and three years after the first portable MP3 hard disk player with...
[August 24, 2006, 15:05]
Apple headphone DRM - what are these people on?
Blog Apple cannot (please God, there is so much prior art and it is so utterly obvious) have a patent on whatever it is, so there's no reason people can't reverse engineer it if they fancy. Take Apple's latest Shuffle iPod music playing thingy.
[March 15, 2009, 15:39]
Apple files for touchscreen Mac patent
News Apple appears to be working on the concept of a touchscreen Mac, based on a recent patent application. A number of Mac sites on Thursday pointed to a US patent application granted for what would appear to be the much-rumoured Mac tablet.
[August 29, 2008, 9:19]
InterTrust to protect tunes on Sanyo device
News Sonicblue's Rio digital audio players, including the Rio 600 and the Rio 800, support DRM software offered by Microsoft, which has been battling InterTrust in a high-profile patent dispute. In addition, some powerful new machines do not support any...
[January 11, 2002, 11:21]
SAP slams open source 'socialism'
Talkback There are no doubt patent lawsuits ready and waiting on both sides. Look at the hundred or so iPod ripoffs. "We all talk about how great Linux is," Agassi reportedly said. But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is...
[November 16, 2005, 4:29]
