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Nokia and Samsung settle patent dispute
Nokia has announced that it has settled a patent dispute with Samsung, and the Finland-based network equipment manufacturer says that this will boost its patent sales by hundreds of million euros. After this patent settlement, the revenue of Nokia Technologies would increase from €578 million in 2014 to around €1.02 billion (around $1.1 billion) in 2015, which includes catch-up payments […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 8 years ago
Patent application shows Samsung working on whispered voice recognition
A recently published patent application reveals how Samsung could implement whispered voice recognition in its smartphones. Courtesy of South Korea's intellectual property office comes a patent application that shows how Samsung envisions users whispering to their smartphones. Obviously, talking to a phone has become profoundly mainstream since Google Now, Siri and Cortana. Samsung's own S Voice has yet to […]
- By Michel G.
- 8 years ago
Tech companies and even farmers want Supreme Court to decide Samsung vs Apple patent lawsuit
Samsung wants to end its patent lawsuit once and for all by trying to get the US Supreme Court to take up the matter. It has already been through a very lengthy legal process that involved lawsuits, payment of about half a billion dollars in damages and also a sales ban on some of its […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 8 years ago
Patent filing reveals Samsung’s plans for a smart ring accessory
A patent application made by Samsung has recently been published by the US Patent and Trademark Office revealing the company's plans for a new “smart ring” accessory which may be used to control certain features on smartphones and smart TVs, the ring may also be used to control home automation systems. One of the illustrations in […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 8 years ago
ITC judge rules in favor of Samsung, says Nvidia infringed on its patents
Samsung and Nvidia are in a running legal battle in a graphics-related patent, and Samsung has gained an upper hand in the case today. An ITC (International Trade Commission) administrative law judge has ruled in favor of Samsung saying that Nvidia has infringed upon two out of three patents by Samsung. This dispute started more than […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 8 years ago
Samsung leads others in number of patents filed for wearable devices
A report which cites data collected from the Thomson Reuters' Patent Search Service and World Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) states that Samsung is leading its rivals in the most number of patents filed for wearable devices between 2003 and 2014, the same report puts Philips in second and Panasonic in third place. Korea Electronics Technology Institute […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 8 years ago
ITC rules that Samsung didn’t break any of Nvidia’s patents
Samsung achieved another victory in the court last Friday as the US International Trade Commission ruled that the tech company didn't infringe any of Nvidia's graphics patents. The investigation started a year ago when Nvidia claimed that Samsung and Qualcomm infringed upon its GPU-related patents, and had they won, they would have the power to […]
- By Octav G.
- 9 years ago
Apple iPhone design patent found to be invalid, Samsung may not have to pay significant damages anymore
Apple's design patent for the third-generation iPhone was a key issue in the first Samsung vs. Apple patent trial, the jury found that Samsung did infringe this patent and on that verdict Samsung had to pay close to half a billion dollars in damages. Samsung was obviously not going to go down without a fight so […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015 – that’s over 17 patents per day!
Samsung has been into patent wars with Apple and Microsoft, and has been able to defend itself. That's because Samsung itself has a large portfolio of patents. According to a new study by Quartz, Samsung has been awarded 2,589 patents so far in 2015. That's over 123 patents per week, or over 17 patents per […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
A new Samsung Gear VR-related patent shows how it could be improved further
Samsung released the Gear VR for the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge a few weeks ago, but nothing new has been added in terms of hardware features. Oculus CEO John Carmack noted that the company is looking to use Samsung's marketing might around the next major release of the Gear VR in September, […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 9 years ago
Smartglasses patented by Samsung could give Google Glass a run for its money
A patent application from Samsung has been published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office which reveals that the company has invented smartglasses that are capable of doing much more than what Google Glass was ever capable of. Google Glass was Google's failed smartglasses project that never made it to a consumer launch, the company […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 9 years ago
Microsoft to cut patent fees for Samsung?
Microsoft has a lot of sources of revenue, but perhaps the easiest source of income for the Redmond company is the patent fees it collects from Android manufacturers. Samsung and Microsoft have gone to court over patent royalty issues in recent years, but Samsung was beyond its differences with Microsoft and secured a deal to […]
- By Abhijeet Mishra
- 9 years ago
Samsung aims to produce all solid state batteries for EVs by 2027
With car manufacturers across the globe rapidly electrifying their lineups, demand for batteries has gone through the roof. Samsung SDI, the battery making company of the Samsung Group, has been investing heavily in its manufacturing facilities to cater to this demand. Samsung SDI is also focusing on improving battery technology in order to provide next-generation […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 2 months ago
Samsung’s is probably happy Apple’s car plans have crashed
It had been rumored for well over a decade that Apple was planning to make a car. The company reportedly had a large team working on this project which would have resulted in a fully electric self-driving car. It obviously never materialized and after burning billions on the project, Apple has reportedly given up on […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 2 months ago
New Samsung vacuum cleaner uses AI to adjust suction power on the fly
Even though the term “AI” is now associated with Samsung's Galaxy phones for the first time, the company has been using AI on other devices for a while now. You may have heard of Samsung's Bespoke Jet AI vacuum cleaners before. But what you might not yet know is that a new AI Mode 2.0 […]
- By Mihai Matei
- 3 months ago
