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Cyrus Farivar writes via Ars Technica: In a unanimous decision, an appellate court has resoundingly rejected the legal claim that sovereign immunity, as argued by a Native American tribe, can act as a shield for a patent review process. On July 20, the… Continue reading Native American Tribe Can’t Be a ‘Sovereign’ Shield During Patent Review, Says Court
Walmart has patented an audio surveillance system which can be used to listen to conversations between employees and customers at checkout. From a report: The “listening to the frontend” technology, as its called, is one of many futuristic ideas Walmar… Continue reading Walmart’s Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns
New patents suggest Facebook’s going to soon know when you’re asleep, when you’re awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you’re going to die. Continue reading Are you happy with this technology that Facebook’s developing?
The triode vacuum tube might be nearly obsolete today, but it was a technology critical to making radio practical over 100 years ago. [Kathy] has put together a video that tells the story and explains the physics of the device.
The first radio receivers used a device called a Coherer as a detector, relying on two tiny filaments that would stick together when RF was applied, allowing current to pass through. It was a device that worked, but not reliably. It was in 1906 that Lee De Forest came up with a detector device for radios using a vacuum tube …read more
Continue reading The History and Physics of Triode Vacuum Tubes
Rob Riggs writes: Jarek Duda, the inventor of a compression technique called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), dedicated the invention to the public domain. Since 2014, Facebook, Apple, and Google have all created software based on his breakthrough. Go… Continue reading Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nikola Tesla invented alternating electrical current. Nikola Motors is a mobility company working on a hydrogen-powered semi truck. Tesla makes fully electric vehicles and last December unveiled its EV Semi. Nikola … Continue reading Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla
According to a patent application made public on Thursday, March 8, Apple could be developing a new MacBook keyboard designed to prevent crumbs and dust from getting those super-shallow MacBook keys stuck. “Liquid ingress around the keys into the keybo… Continue reading Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple a patent titled “dual display equipment with enhanced visibility and suppressed reflections.” The documentation for what is patent numbe… Continue reading New Apple Patent Imagines an OLED Screen As a Keyboard For MacBooks
Marco Arment: App developers sometimes ask me what they should do when their features, designs, or entire apps are copied by competitors. Legally, there’s not a lot you can do about it: Copyright protects your icon, images, other creative resources, an… Continue reading ‘Nobody Cares Who Was First, and Nobody Cares Who Copied Who’: Marco Arment on Defending Your App From Copies and Clones
New submitter jabuzz writes: Unless you live in the Philippines or Malaysia, then MPEG-2 has now joined the likes of MP3 and AC3 and gone patent free with the expiration of US patent 7,334,248.
Read more of this story at Slashdot. Continue reading MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired