Thursday March 14, 2024 4:29 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Apple registers many patents most of which never see the light of day as consumer products – officially, that is. One burgeoning knock-off merchant in China has apparently taken cues from an idea...
Apple was granted 2,536 patents in the United States last year, surpassed by only six other companies, IFI Claims reports.In its rankings of the top 50 U.S. patent assignees in 2023, IFI Claims...
An official Apple Vision Pro cover has emerged in new design patent filings from Hong Kong, revealing the first-party headset accessory for the first time.Apple was granted 70 more design patents in...
Thursday October 12, 2023 12:45 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple and its Wi-Fi chip supplier Broadcom have reached an agreement with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), putting an end to a years-long legal battle over wireless communication...
Friday October 27, 2023 3:32 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Thursday ordered a ban on Apple Watch imports into the country after finding that Apple violated pulse oximetry company Masimo's patents with the...
Apple and Nokia have signed a long-term patent license agreement that will give Apple access to patented Nokia inventions in 5G and other technologies, Nokia announced today.The two companies had a...
Tuesday February 20, 2024 2:45 pm PST by Juli Clover
The United States Supreme Court today said that it will not hear the VirnetX vs. Apple patent case, putting an end to a 14-year-long legal battle and ultimately saving Apple $502.8 million.As...
Thursday August 10, 2023 4:19 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Apple supplier LG has reportedly purchased multiple patents that could help it produce the displays for Apple's rumored next-generation Apple Watch Ultra model with a microLED display. The Elec...
Health technology company AliveCor has praised the International Trade Commission (ITC)'s ban on sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the United States.AliveCor, like...
Monday December 18, 2023 9:05 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Apple today said it will be pausing sales of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S. later this week due to an ongoing patent dispute with medical tech company Masimo related to...
Tuesday January 10, 2023 10:57 pm PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple infringed on one of medical technology company Masimo's pulse oximeter patents when it launched Apple Watch models that use light sensors to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood, an...
Friday December 9, 2022 8:34 am PST by Eric Slivka
Ericsson today announced it has reached a patent license agreement with Apple that will settle a long-running dispute between the two companies over patents related to cellular technology.The dispute...
Monday January 15, 2024 10:27 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Apple has readied modified Apple Watch models that "do not contain pulse oximetry functionality," medical technology company Masimo said in a document filed today with the U.S. Court of...
Friday December 2, 2022 2:18 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apple today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AliveCor, a company that has developed the ECG "KardiaBand" designed for the Apple Watch, among other ECG-focused products. AliveCor...
Apple has patented a possible next-generation Apple Pencil that can sample colors from the real world and then input that same color onto an iPad, as well as other features, including the ability to...
Wednesday February 22, 2023 12:31 am PST by Tim Hardwick
The Biden administration has declined to overrule a U.S. International Trade Commission decision that the Apple Watch infringes patents from medical device company AliveCor, potentially paving the...
Apple has settled an AirPods-related patent infringement lawsuit with audio manufacturer Koss, according to a court filing submitted on Saturday that was highlighted by Reuters. Koss had accused...
Tuesday December 6, 2022 3:51 pm PST by Juli Clover
The United States Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board today invalidated a trio of AliveCor patents that AliveCor used in a complaint with the International Trade...
Apple has filed for and published a total 248 automobile-related patents since 2000, according to research conducted by Japanese news site Nikkei and Tokyo analytics firm Intellectual Property...
Apple has been granted a patent that could well hint at a new design direction for the controversial Smart Case that comes with Apple's AirPods Max (via Patently Apple).When Apple unveiled its...
Apple has won a patent for a dual monitor stand that appears to be based on the "Pro Stand" design option for the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR.The patent filing first surfaced in 2020,...
Thursday March 30, 2023 3:11 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple has been embroiled in a patent dispute with VirnetX for well over a decade, and the company today won an appeals verdict that could ultimately save it from having to pay VirnetX $502.8...
Apple and its supplier Broadcom today convinced a U.S. appeals court to reject a jury verdict that required them to pay $1.1 billion for infringing on Wi-Fi patents that belong to the California...
Tuesday January 18, 2022 4:11 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Telecom giant Ericsson has filed another set of patent infringement lawsuits against Apple in a long-running dispute between the two companies over royalty payments for the use of 5G wireless patents...
Apple was granted 2,541 patents in the United States last year, surpassed by only six other companies, IFI Claims reports.In its rankings of the top 50 U.S. patent assignees in 2021 (via Patently...
Saturday March 20, 2021 3:01 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay around $308.5 million to a local licensing firm for infringing a patent related to digital rights management, reports Bloomberg.Following a...
Monday October 18, 2021 7:58 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Following the last-minute rumor that Apple's upcoming new MacBook Pro models could feature a notch at the top of the display, much of the online discussion has involved concerns that such a notch...
Friday December 10, 2021 3:29 am PST by Tim Hardwick
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...
Lawyers representing Apple have suggested that the company could exit the UK market if the terms of an ongoing patent dispute are "commercially unacceptable" (via This is Money).UK patent...
Apple has been granted a patent for a temperature sensor suitable for the Apple Watch, just weeks before the company is expected to unveil the Apple Watch Series 8 with body temperature sensing...