Patent Search and Filing

Energizer Wins Injunction In Spectrum Patent Battle (Fox News)
Energizer Wins Injunction In Spectrum Patent Battle

EU patent board to decide whether to allow software patents (Ars Technica)
The European Patent Office Enlarged Board of Appeal will soon be reviewing the legality of software patents in an effort to provide clarity to judges. Read More…

Verizon Settles Patent Suit with Klausner (Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
US wireless service provider Verizon has settled a visual voicemail patent infringement suit with Klausner Technologies. Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed but Verizon has now signed a licensing agreement with Klausner so it can use Klausner’s visual voicemail technology in its Verizon Wireless Visual Voicemail service.

Inventors navigate long patent process for reward of protecting their product (BizJournals)
Inventor Gene Owen has two words of advice for anyone hoping to patent an idea: Be patient.

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BioSolar Files Comprehensive Patent for BioBacksheet(TM) Photovoltaic Solar Cell Component (Centre Daily Times)
BioSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: BSRC) announced today that it has filed a patent application to protect the novel inventions and processes behind its proprietary bio-based backsheet, a protective covering for the back of photovoltaic solar cells traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film. The comprehensive patent application, filed earlier this week, is expected to give BioSolar full …

News: Apple patent points to short-range communications bridge (iLounge)
Apple is working on a way to provide wide-area wireless communications to devices offering only short-range communications, according to a new patent application. The application describes a system in which wireless modules, offering both long-range and short-range wireless communication, are embedded in common objects such as cars, purses, t-shirts, tennis shoes, and more, and facilitate …

Fractal Firm Discloses Patent Filing on Wideband Cloaking and Metamaterials (Centre Daily Times)
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., the pioneering innovator of fractal antenna and fractal electronics technology, today announced that it has filed for patent protection on method and apparatus for producing wideband ‘cloaking’ devices and wideband metamaterials. The invention sets a path for the realization of practical devices for rendering objects less distinguishable from their background (that …

Microsoft gets bleeping patent (CNET via Yahoo! News)
Microsoft got another &#@*%-ing patent.

GERMANY: Patent Office rules in leather waterproofing feud (just-style)
This article is locked. You need to be a Full Member of just-style to view this article. Existing users, please login at the top of the page. Summary: The European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected calls by WL Gore & Associates Gmbh, holder of the Gore-Tex trademark, to withdraw a leather waterproofing patent held by its rival Nextec Srl.