Posts Tagged ‘patent and trademark office

A veritable treasure trove of documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show some of the different ways that Apple is looking to integrate location, travel and commerce into future versions of iOS. Patently Apple has uncovered some of the latest developments, which include additions to the iTravel app that surfaced back in April, [...]

NTP, the patent holding company best known for developing wireless email, has filed lawsuits against Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola, for infringing on eight of its patents related to the delivery of electronic mail over wireless communications systems. Donald E. Stout, NTP’s co-founder, said, "Use of NTP’s intellectual property without a license is [...]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.” Amazingly enough, the description of the patent sounds, well, pretty much like any social network we’ve seen over the years, including Facebook. The description of the patent is as follows: “A networked computer system provides various services for assisting [...]

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has introduced an initiative aimed at gathering public input and reviewing the connection between privacy policy and innovation in the Internet economy. Locke also announced the formation of an Internet Policy Task Force to identify public policy and operational issues impacting the private sector’s ability to realize the potential for [...]

A number of social networks may be in a significant amount of trouble.  Facebook has managed to patent the idea of "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network." This is no rumor or joke; the paperwork is all in order.  Facebook filed for what the United States Patent and Trademark [...]


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