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| Sep 17, 2007 | Cognitive Code at TC40 | John Biggs just sent me a frantic Skype to look into Cognitive Code, a company he just discovered at TC40. After looking over its offerings, I’m forced to say that I’m sharing his excitement, albeit skeptically.
Cognitive Code is the develo... |
| Sep 1, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Biometric Cell Phone Developments | If Motorola or AT&T’s recent patents show, biometric controls are coming for cell phones. AT&T envisions a means to unlock your phone with your voice while Moto has begun developing a means to use a cell phone to deliver a shocking ... |
| Aug 25, 2007 | PatentMonkey: BIG Patent Changes are Here | While Congress takes a break for August on The Patent Reform Act, two competitors are stealing some of the thunder: the USPTO and the US Circuit of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).
Heads are spinning to keep abreast of the broad, rap... |
| Aug 18, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Apple Multi-Touch is the New FireWire | OOOOH, multi-touch: Apple’s going to a multi-touch laptop and mouse.. Think of the possibilities!!!!!
Remember FireWire? Apple poured tons of resources into a superior technology with hopes of driving an industry to see data transfer from d... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | PatentMonkey: AT&T Wireless Lockdown for iPhone? | Recent news that Apple had applied for a means to disable recharging on a stolen device, we now have learned that Cingular conceived an even broader concept: shutting down a wireless device when out of a communication with a WiFi zone.
Appl... |
| Aug 2, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Sony PS3 Down, Kicked with More Litigation | Sony PS3 has to work through a couple litigation suits and can now add the PS3 cell processor to the list. Sony is on the receiving side of a litigation suit that claims that the PS3 infringes an almost 20 year old patent (via the magic of ... |
| Jul 28, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Nokia's Karaoke Ring Tones | This week Nokia received a patent for more than just mere ringtones, but ringtones that can be modified with a secondary tone, or what they call “compound ring tones“.
Oh yes, get all your friends to record singing to your favorite song as ... |
| Jul 24, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Patent Reform More than Just in the Air | “May you live in interesting times”, or so they say. The USPTO and IP attorneys have been handed very interesting times indeed with recent Supreme Court decisions and Congressional alignment in pushing ahead the Patent Reform Act of 2007. H... |
| Jul 19, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Microsoft's Cell Phone with Touch Screen | What if the Zune was a cell phone? What if it had a touch screen on the back of it? What could you do with it? Microsoft slipped in a patent application covering a cell phone that can be used as a touch screen computer mouse for your PC. Af... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | APPLE IPOD SOON TO HAVE ZUNE-LIKE CAPABILITIES, ABILITY TO KILL NINJAS | I’ve been talking with PatentMonkey’s Cory about the latest breathless report of an Apple patent purporting to describe Zune-like sharing capabilities. Well, we’ve come to the conclusion that these patents don’t mean “Apple will make this i... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Sony Interoperability is in the Game | Sony’s seamless game system to mobile device published application has me thinking about the allure of the iPhone and the state of hype in the cell phone industry.
Throughout 2007, Sony has had a slew of platform crossing technologies leake... |
| Jul 4, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Samsung's One-Push Cellular GPS Directions | Getting home, to a hotel or to a friend’s house in the wee hours may get easier thanks to Samsung’s new patented technology covering a means for transmitting directions from where you are to a desired destination location using your cell ph... |
| Jul 3, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Local.com Proudly Announces Patent for "Enhanced Directory Assistance" | Local.com (NASDAQ: LOCM) announced today the issuance of a patented technology for paid search results provided in response to a request for directory assistance. The company hopes to tap into mobile and voice application paid search market... |
| Jun 24, 2007 | PatentMonkey: NEC Gets Cell Phone Smart File Downloading Patent | Apple notes it is the only player one of two players in WiFi enabled smart phones offering expanded reach when cell coverage is, well, not so good. This week, NEC was issued a related patent on wirelessly downloading files by selecting betw... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Will the iPhone be used as Apple TV Remote? | So genesis of the iPhone was sometime back in 2005, right? Interestingly, Apple happened to file a continuation on a patent application around that time covering a Universal Remote for controlling a number of home entertainment devices.
A t... |
| Jun 17, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Cell Phone Features Seen 'em Once, and Again | Sorting through this week’s cell phone makers’ issued patents, I found a couple examples of patented concepts (dating back to 2000-2001) that have found their way into the market more than once by means of “fast following”. In this post-KSR... |
| Jun 13, 2007 | PatentMonkey: USB Integrated Antenna on Cell Phone | Smart, simple and marketable. Samsung’s male adapter USB antenna for a cell phone is all of these things, yet, it is a feature not easily found. No losing a cord to charge my cell phone on the road, just a friendly USB connection to suck po... |
| Jun 8, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Microsoft to Take on Joost? | Two things show a company is getting ramped up to enter a business – filing for patents and lining up a trademark.
Microsoft has done both in the online video arena and could be in a position to take on Joost. A recently filed trademark ima... |
| Jun 7, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Microsoft Enhanced TV | Microsoft recently received a patent covering enhanced TV by streaming an interactive layer in conjunction with the broadcast content. One of many video related patents that they hold, actually.
While the Nintendo Wii has brought us one ste... |
| Jun 6, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Sony Motion-Sensitive Display Viewing | Sony has so many creative options. Case in point, while working on motion sensing camera image stabilization, Sony discovered a way to use the camera’s sensors to scroll the camera’s display around a stored image. This concept is kind of li... |
| May 30, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Microsoft Surface Not Just a Touch Screen | With the news of Microsoft Surface announced, we found detail behind how the technology might work.
During the Popular Mechanics interview, Microsoft noted that the display uses a series of IR sensors to detect objects on the surface provid... |
| May 25, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Sony Sued On Blu-ray Technology | Target Technologies has filed a patent suit against Sony stating that its Blu-ray technologies infringe on a Target Technologies patent covering Sony’s use of a less corrosive and less costly Silver based alloy layer for its Blu-ray discs.
... |
| May 24, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Nokia Two Screen Tablet with Removable Key Board | Nokia received a newly issued patent covering a laptop-style device with two touch screens and a removable keyboard. Nokia shows in this patent its development breadth towards the convergence of laptops and cell phones and has created this ... |
| May 24, 2007 | Breaking: Microsoft Preps Car Zune | Best graphic ever?
Microsoft this week received a patent that could have a profound effect on the car audio landscape. The newly minted patent covers a portable audio device that can be docked and/or integrated into a car stereo. The union ... |
| May 19, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Netflix Sued for Anti-Trust by Using Patents | Dennis Dilbeck, a Netflix subscriber, filed a class action lawsuit claiming that Netflix controlled the online DVD rental market by leveraging fraudulently obtained patents making for an unusual patent-based anti-trust case filed earlier th... |
| May 18, 2007 | Not Just A Series Of Tubes In DC | More than 250 bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists gathered at the premier DC night club MCCXXIII for drinks, fun, and socializing last night at TECH cocktail DC 1. In addition to free beer and wine (some... |
| May 17, 2007 | Patent Monkey: P&G Considers, Drops Robotic Cleaner | A fact about innovation is that ideas that are tried fail much more often than they succeed. Frequently, a team can shut down a dead project long before anyone in the market knows it was even attempted. In the case of companies like P&G... |
| May 14, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Timing Right for Vonage Asset Sale? | Vonage is fighting possible bankruptcy, need for a new CEO and investor frustration. While the potential for it to escape Verizon’s litigation grip has some hope, a more radical step by an aggressive buyer could just be the trick.
Vonage ha... |
| May 9, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Ericsson Multi-Layer Display Cell Phone | After covering Motorola’s multi-layer LCD solar display, Ericsson’s recently issued patent adds a feature in yet another direction: a multiple layered display. Ericsson has thought up a number of applications to fit more onto that tiny scre... |
| May 6, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Verizon Voice Activated Call Routing, Makes Mom Happy | , Verizon revealed a means for using not only time for call routing it currently offers, but also a name recognition routing system. Knowing your Mom wants to be sure you are safe, this is just the technology to be sure she reaches you.
Ver... |
| May 4, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Nokia Trying to One-Up iPod Scroll Wheel? | Nokia recently received a patent covering a new phone interface by using a frame that can be rotated and a series of input controls around a display that changes what the buttons control based on triggering the frame’s rotation spring (e.g.... |
| Apr 27, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Rock Your Body Headphones, Now with Surround Sound | uncovered a Sony application on using your body to transit a signal. Well, Sony has even more out of the box thinking for body transmitting wireless headphones by even more signals rocking through your body.
In a different recently issued p... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Mobile Social Networking Patent Sells for $2.6 Million | At the Ocean Tomo live auction last week, US Patent 6618593 sold for $2.6 million to an anonymous buyer making it a record for the purchase of a patent in a live auction.
Billed as a patent to bridge the online into the real world, the pate... |
| Apr 22, 2007 | Patent Monkey: LCD + Solar Cell = Smart | Cell phone battery life has been one of the top problems since its inception. Motorola was there at the beginning, and is at least exploring smart solutions.
Motorola recently received a patent for combining an LCD screen and a solar cell o... |
| Apr 19, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Fitness Week Edition | Barry Bonds will tell you: if you don’t take swings, you don’t hit home runs. In innovation, the same thing is rings true — you have to keep swinging until you hit a home run.
In honor of Fitness Week, we’ll take a look at some of the leadi... |
| Apr 10, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Olympus Wearable Displays for Real Life Gaming | Olympus has consistently launched pretty hot concepts and has kept their innovation track strong with 76 patents so far in 2007. Would getting into digital display eye wear be that much of a stretch from their experience in digital cameras?... |
| Apr 5, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Eye Tracking for Computers | In watching the growing interest in web tracking, with players like clickdensity combined with analytics to fine tune preferences, we thought Canon’s recently received patent covering the use of image data to track eye movement on a compute... |
| Apr 2, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Geographic Cell Messaging with SquareLoop | This week, start up SquareLoop won 1st prize at CTIA for its geocasting technology beating out Lucent-Alcatel’s GMS. The company started out in 2005 when it received the rights to patented technologies from tech transfer organization, MITRE... |
| Mar 28, 2007 | Patent Monkey: The Wireless Printer Pen | 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 into account the position of the pen on the paper.
Wit... |
| Mar 22, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Using PS3 Controller as Extension for Cell Phone? | 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 calling and answer it.
Sony Ericsson recently received a patent covering the proce... |
| Mar 21, 2007 | Rumor: Cingular to Launch Router and WiFi Switching Cell Phone Service | I have found the wifi + cell phone momentum quite interesting and covered two early patents leading the trend.
So I’m on a flight and a guy behind me, sitting next to someone worthy of being impressed, talks about what any guy would want to... |
| Mar 17, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Digital 3D Photography Preparing for Internet Viewing | This week, Pentax received a patent on a 3-D imaging system with distance controls while two individual inventors patented a means for viewing 3-D digital images on the Internet. The art of Stereoscopy has been around for a century, but wha... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Skullcandy Patents LINK between Cell Phone and iPod | Skullcandy has been creating some interesting products such as their headphones, MP3 watches and backpacks.
They were just issued their first patent on a personal portable integrator for a music player and mobile phone (US Patent 7,187,948)... |
| Mar 10, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Verizon Bills Vonage $58 Million for Infringement | Bubbly, nationally advertised Vonage may lose the right to offer VOIP services at the hand of Verizon. On Friday, Verizon won its patent infringement case against upstart Vonage by being awarded a 5.5% royalty for use of patented technologi... |
| Mar 8, 2007 | Emotiv Project Epoc: Sensory Gaming Developed Through Research on Schizophrenic Mice | Emotiv is a company I expect we’ll be hearing a lot more about soon. It made news yesterday with a formal announcement of its Project Epoc, a developmental technology that interpolates electrical signals emitted by the brain and converts th... |
| Mar 8, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Microsoft Stakes DRM Patent Claims | across devices and were curious about how much effort they have put into DRM.
In early 2001, Apple made a dynamic move signing major labels to deliver legitimate music downloads, albeit with a good amount of restrictions FairPlay. Fair enou... |
| Mar 3, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Nokia Wants You to Throw Away Your Wallet | Let’s face it, RFID has had a lot of hype in the past four years, but has failed to find its way into our everyday lives and pocketbooks. Case in point: Mobile Phones using RFID. Nokia announced its new JV, Venyon Oy, in hopes of becoming a... |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Digital Display Magic | In this week’s IP-Review on digital cameras and displays, we find a slick Konica Rollable LCD screen for digital cameras and found an “immersive theater” concept patented by Kodak.
What looks to be taken out of the movie Minority Report, th... |
| Feb 24, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Details on Alcatel's $1.5 B Win Against Microsoft | Here’s some added detail on the biggest patent litigation settlement in history: Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel $1.5 B based on its Windows Media Player infringing the French telecoms’ MP3 technology. The jury found Microsoft infringed th... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Amazing Nokia Cell Phone Screen and Game Time | Thanks to some newly minted cell phone patents, Nokia is getting the attention as a top player in locking up their technologies in the past couple weeks. Notably, Nokia has recently got a patent on a in-any-direction cell phone display and ... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Knight Rider Patent by Subaru | .
Last week, Fuji Industrial/Subaru, received the latest patent for an automatically controlled, GPS guided car. Subaru is joined most notably by Volkswagen in this field, and we take a quick look at autonomous vehicles on the news of Stanf... |
| Feb 18, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Sony GripMote in the works before the Wiimote? | on a Hand-Held Computer Interactive Device which details the controller.
Sony’s controller is designed to fit in the palm of the hand and work with the user’s fingers. As the user squeezes the device the pressure applied on the controller’s... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Yahoo Ready to Smash Up the Mash Ups | CrunchGear reports that Yahoo recently received a ‘Dynamic Page Generator’ patent that has the potential to impact business development, and the futures, of many similarly featured companies including Google, Netvibes, Rojo and many other W... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Yahoo Ready to Smash Up the Mash Ups | and is the focus of our IP-Review…
Yahoo received a patent that has the potential to impact business development, and the futures, of many similarly featured companies including Google, Bloglines, Netvibes, Rojo, Dapper, Pageflakes, NewsGat... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Cell Phones – Smart Switching Phones | This week’s issued cell phone patents reveal a bit more on smart switching between mobile phones and networks. NEC received an issued patent on a WiFi and cellular phone that uses proximity to determine which network to use while Sprint rec... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | Specialized Judges Could Mean Less Expensive Gear | The House of Representatives approved a bill to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges. The result could lead to faster resolutions for patent disputes, fewer appeals and less costly litigation, and hopeful... |
| Feb 11, 2007 | GPS – Heads Up 3D and Marking the Spot | In January, Denso received a smart patent on displaying GPS and navigation information on a heads up display while Alpine Electronics received a patent on marking a favorite spot using a GPS system.
Denso Corporation of Japan, primarily an ... |
| Feb 8, 2007 | Apple vs. The World: PatentMonkey IP-Review | Apple is greater than the sum of its parts. IP is important for any company today and Apple’s whopping $74 Billion market valuation shows that investors love Apple’s IP. Apple’s intangibles boil down to several primary focus areas: its OS, ... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Wifi Digital Cameras: Canon and Olympus Newly Minted Patents | Two newly minted patents to Canon and Olympus covering wifi image transfers for digital cameras hit in January are just the beginning…
Canon recently received an issued patent covering an external device, such as a PC, that triggers wireles... |
| Feb 4, 2007 | PatentMonkey: Superbowl Edition | We’ve got a few inventive thoughts rolling into the Super Bowl weekend:
Rocket-Laser Arm Checker
The networks show baseball pitch speed. I vote that they start showing throw speed in football, too. With so much emphasis on arm strength, let... |
| Feb 1, 2007 | Welcome to the Social: Zune Phone Style | With the news breaking about Microsoft responding to an iPhone announcement with a possible Zune Cell Phone, we wondered what feature they’d most want to have.
One of the most unique elements of the Zune is its ability to share music wirele... |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Patent Monkey: OQO Mobile Touch Screen as Laptop Accessory? | After being crowned by Bill Gates at CES as the “category-defining UMPC,” we’ve read up on a patent OQO holds. In a way, some patents filed are like dreams… Was it real? I just can’t remember. OQO created a device that could be right in-lin... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Patent Monkey: More on Netflix Internet Movie Streaming | . The Netflix goal “to get to every Internet-connected screen, from cell phones to PCs to plasma screens.” For now, they offer an applet with streaming video viewing in 10-15 seconds from starting up with higher quality based on the bandwid... |
| Jan 13, 2007 | Patent Monkey: AOL Online Music Sold to Napster | In news yesterday, AOL shed more of its business by announcing that they are selling their online Music NOw business to Napster. Napster, surprisingly, has a few patents in their pocket, while our analysis of AOL shows that they had very li... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Apple Faces Patent Infringment Suit On Nike+iPod | The Washington Post reported this week that:
“[Apple], the Cupertino, Calif.-based company also disclosed that PhatRat Technology LLC filed a lawsuit Oct. 24 alleging patent infringement. The Nike-iPod product in question, developed jointly... |