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Report: New Apple Technology Can (Theoretically) Read Your Hand Gestures
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 11:22am | 195Read More...Apple Insider reported on Tuesday that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was granted a patent for a "machine vision system capable of recognizing human hand gestures." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple U.S. Patent No. 9,002,009. Officially, Apple's patent covers "...
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Digital Ally Files For Breath Analyzer Patent, Shares Move Higher
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 12:56pm | 207Read More...Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) were trading higher Thursday by more than 2 percent after the company filed for a patent related to a "breath analyzer, system, and computer program for authenticating, preserving, and presenting breath analysis data." According to the...
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Report: 'Apple Electric Car, Inc' Shows Up In Granted Patents
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 - 10:12am | 215Read More...According to Patently Apple, there was an "odd-ball" entry in Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) granted patent list. Patently Apple on Tuesday discovered a granted patent associated with the name Apple Electric Car, Inc. However, Apple and car enthusiasts shouldn't get overly excited just yet as the...
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Shares Of Straight Path Communications Surge Following 8-K Filing
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 11:07am | 159Read More...Shares of Straight Path Communications (NASDAQ: STRP) were trading higher by more than 10 percent Tuesday morning following an 8-K filing. Straight Path Communication is an intangible asset monetization company with two segments. The first segment, Straight Path Spectrum holds leases and sells...
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Google And Others Join Forces To 'Troll-Proof' Their Patents
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 3:38pm | 594Read More...That old saying, “strength in numbers” rings true, especially when those numbers include the likes of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). To that end, Re/Code reported, the tech giant, along with Canon (NYSE: CAJ), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), Newegg, Dropbox and Asana have all joined forces to...
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Celgene Shares Respond To Word Of Markman Opinion Release
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 2:23pm | 526Read More...Shares of Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) are volatile following the report of the Markman opinion on a patent dispute over five claims covering six patents with defendants Natco Pharma Limited, Arrow International Limited, and Watson Laboratories seeking approval to market a generic version of Revlimid...
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Merck Sues to Stop Generic NuvaRing
Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 5:50pm | 216Read More...Merck (NYSE: MRK) is suing Actavis (NYSE: ACT) in an attempt to keep a generic version of its profitable NuvaRing birth control device off the market, Bloomberg reported. Merck is accusing Warner Chilcott, a division of Actavis, of violating its patent on NuvaRing. Actavis has announced that it...
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Generic Version Of Viagra To Launch In 2017
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 2:11pm | 887Read More...Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has come to a settlement with Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE: TEVA), that will allow Teva to to launch a generic version of the anti-impotency drug Viagra in late 2017. While most of the agreement's terms remain confidential, Pfizer says Teva will pay a royalty...
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The Reason Nokia Kept The Patents (NOK)
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 12:19pm | 557Read More...Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sold its handset business to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). What it did not sell to Microsoft, or anyone else, is its patents. And Nokia has a bunch of them. The reason? Income, according to Reuters. In technology, patents are like gold. And if there is one thing Nokia knows, it’...
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Will Apple Earn Another $1 Billion from Samsung After Patent Victory? (AAPL, SSNLF)
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 9:21am | 533Read More...In the United States, the price for violating Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) patents has proved to be enormous. Last summer, Samsung was ordered to pay $1 billion dollars for infringing on a number of patents owned by the iPhone maker. Samsung worked hard to reduce the penalty, but it could rise again...
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Google is Getting Sucked Into Apple and Samsung's Patent Dispute
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 4:25pm | 450Read More...Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) lawyers may have been apprehensive about attacking Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) over the creation of the Android operating system, but it might have found a way to slowly pull the company into court. According to Bloomberg, Apple has asked a judge to "force Google to turn over...
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Takeout Possibilities in the Mobile Ecosystem
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 8:36am | 1336Read More...On the heels of the pending transaction between Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Palm (PALM) as well as announced Google (GOOG)-AdMob and Apple (AAPL)-Quattro Wireless, we are left wondering what other players are potential takeover targets for either strategic reasons or opportunistic ones. Little...
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IPR Emphasis Continues to Grow in the Mobile Ecosystem
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 12:17pm | 1009Read More...This morning there is news out that the U.S. International Trade Commission examine whether or not Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone infringes intellectual property belonging to Kodak (NYSE: EK). This underscores my view that intellectual property, patents and related assets will be a...
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Verichip shares treble on grant of exclusive patent related to virus detection
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 2:26pm | 120Read More...Shares of Florida-based medical equipment firm Verichip Corp (CHIP) nearly trebled during intraday trading on Monday after the company announced the granting of an exclusive patent that would be helpful in the detection of various viruses, including H1N1 virus, and other biological threats. Patent...
