royleban | Shared With: Everyone - May 13 2008 | design, news, apple, trademarks, patents
Quoted: On Jan. 8, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple Inc. a trademark for the three-dimensional shape of its iPod media player.
This was more than a recognition of an innovative product design. It also was Apple's capping piece in a multiyear marketing and legal campaign that pushed intellectual-property rights to new competitive advantage for the company.
- royleban | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2006 | patents, blackberry, news
I know Geoff and remember when he was working on RadioMail. Definitely ahead of his time.
Quoted: Geoff Goodfellow came up with the idea of wireless e-mail, but he will never see a penny of the $612.5 million payday that has resulted from the technology.
- royleban | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 15 2006 | patents, search, google
I haven't read this, but saw it mentioned in a tech blog.
Quoted: A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.
- royleban | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 30 2006 | patents, news
Quoted: The Supreme Court debated the rights of inventors Wednesday, weighing in on a dispute between eBay and a small Virginia patent holder.
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