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Facebook Meta patents would fill the metaverse with ads
Sounds just like the Internet
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BlackBerry sells mobile and messaging patents for $600 million
The buyer, "Catapult IP Innovations," will have to monetize these patents somehow.
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Apple glasses could adjust lenses to match user's prescription
Apple Glass could potentially be used by people that need vision correction, with lenses that adjust to correct the wearer's vision. The concept of smart glasses runs into a problem when it comes to people who normally wear glasses to see. Those who can wear contact lenses could feasibly use a typical smart glasses setup without too much issue, but those who have to wear glasses can end up in trouble.
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Google Infringed on Speaker Technology Owned by Sonos, Trade Court Rules
The company will not be allowed to import products that infringe on Sonos patents, including smart speakers, video streaming devices and some computers and phones.
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The US Gov't Paid For Moderna To Develop Its Vaccine; But Moderna Wants To Keep The Patent All To Itself
The US government, and by that we mean "the US public," who mostly funded Moderna's COVID vaccine ... nearly $1billion ... and it was actually US government employees who did a lot of the important work.
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British Car Leasing Company Creates 'Apple Car' 3D Render Based on Patents
British vehicle leasing company Vanarama has taken a stab at imagining what the first Apple Car could look like, taking inspiration from iPhones, MacBooks, and other Apple products, and combining them with real Apple patents to come up with a 3D concept render that can be explored inside and out.
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Forget bendy screens—Microsoft patents “foldable mouse”
A newly published patent shows designs for a Microsoft Arc-like mouse that bends.
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Apple Invents a new method of detecting user ID and Presence to automatically awaken a Mac from Sleep Mode
Apple has been working on presence detection for Macs and a future TV since 2005 (published in 2009). Our cover graphic is from that patent. Over the years Apple's R&D teams have filed other patents covering user presence systems (01, 02, 03 and 04). On Thursday, the US Patent & Trademark Office published yet another patent application from Apple that relates to improved wake-up and authentication methods..
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Why Moderna won't share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid for its development
Moderna claims its scientists alone invented the mRNA sequence used to produce its COVID-19 vaccine. The US government, which helped fund the drug, disagrees.
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Covid-19: Pfizer to allow developing nations to make its treatment pill
US drug company Pfizer has penned a deal to allow its experimental Covid-19 treatment pill to be made and sold in 95 developing nations. The deal with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool not-for-profit could make the treatment available to 53% of the world's population. But it excludes several countries that have had large Covid-19 outbreaks, including Brazil.
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Drug Price Negotiation Is A Second-Best Fix. Here's What Will Really Work
As Democrats struggle to bring together 50 votes to pass the Build Back Better Act, a major sticking point with the legislation has emerged. That is, whether it should include provisions changing the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices...
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Apple’s patent reveals “special glasses” that only allow its users to view content on the iPhone
According to a new patent filed by Apple, the company may launch a new privacy feature that only allows the owner of an iPhone to view its content with special glasses. As reported by Patently Apple, the patent describes the “privacy glasses” that block out others from viewing your content.
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Apple loses bid for second bite at Qualcomm patents after license
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rebuffed for the second time Apple Inc's attempt to revive challenges to chipmaker Qualcomm Inc's mobile-phone technology patents. In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Apple couldn't bring the appeal because of the companies' 2019 resolution of a global patent dispute, which gave Apple a license to tens of thousands of Qualcomm patents.
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Russian court bars sale of Samsung phones over patent lawsuit -report
A Russian court has barred Samsung Electronics from importing and selling 61 models of smartphones in Russia over an intellectual property lawsuit pertaining to its Samsung Pay system, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
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A patented PlayStation feature allows players to pay to kick others from games
The patent, which is titled ‘Spectators Vote to Bench Players in a Video Game’, was filed in January 2020 and was granted on Tuesday. The described feature lets spectators vote to remove (or ‘bench’) players, send them messages to warn them to play better, or even pay to have them removed.
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Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment."
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Judge Says an AI Can’t Be Listed as an Inventor on a Patent
Don’t worry, humans—artificial intelligence systems aren’t taking over the world yet. They can’t even appear as inventors on U.S. patents. U.S. federal judge Leonie Brikema ruled this week that an AI can’t be listed as an inventor on a U.S. patent under current law. The case was brought forward by Stephen Thaler, who is part of the Artificial Inventor Project, an international initiative that argues that an AI should be allowed to be listed as an inventor in a patent (the owner of the AI would legally own the patent).
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Only 'natural persons' can be recognized as patent inventors, not AI systems, US judge rules
This isn't over says man pushing for neural networks' rights
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AMD files teleportation patent to supercharge quantum computing
AMD has proposed a patent for 'teleportation,' meaning things could be about to get much more efficient around here. With the incredible technological feats humanity achieves on a daily basis, and Nvidia's Jensen going off on one last year about GeForce holodecks and time machines, it's easy for us to slip into a headspace that lets us believe genuine human teleportation is just around the corner.
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New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient
Based on a multi-SIMD quantum processor architecture
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