Tech startup sues Apple over Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor
Apple has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor, according to a report from Axios. Filed by a company called OmniMedSci, the lawsuit alleges that...
View ArticleApple ordered to pay $500M in damages to patent troll
As the Honorable Judge Chamberlain Haller famously said, “Win some, lose some.” Apple emerged victorious after it took South Korean consumer tech giant Samsung to court for stealing its designs and...
View ArticleAmazon’s Alexa could start listening to everything you say
Amazon has admitted it’s considering eavesdropping on every conversation you have using Alexa speakers — or even your smartphone. The terrifying concept suggests a future where products and services...
View ArticleHydrogen-powered truck maker claims Tesla copied its designs
Nikola Motor Co., which makes hydrogen-powered semi trucks, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against electric automaker Tesla alleging design patent infringements. Tesla’s Semi, its first electric heavy duty...
View ArticleAnheuser-Busch claims Heineken stole its keg design
This Bud’s not for you: Anheuser-Busch claims Heineken ripped off its design for a new kind of keg. The Budweiser maker is suing its Dutch competitor over Heineken’s Brewlock tap system, claiming it...
View ArticleSoftbank unit launches $400M ‘patent troll’ fund
SoftBank’s Fortress Investment Group is raising a $400 million fund to sue tech companies over intellectual property infringement, The Post has learned. That’s despite the fact that SoftBank —...
View ArticleApple, Samsung settle years-long patent dispute
Apple and Samsung Electronics on Wednesday settled a years-long patent dispute, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The terms of the settlement were...
View ArticleBig Pharma’s trick for making generic drugs more expensive
Generic drugs are cheaper than the brand-name alternatives, everyone knows that. But the truth turns out to be more complicated. A new analysis, from the drug price comparison platform GoodRx, is...
View ArticleIndia denies ‘morally degrading’ sex toy patent
What a buzzkill. India’s patent office has turned down a Canadian company’s application to patent a vibrator because sex toys violate “public order and morality,” according to the BBC. Despite the...
View ArticleLululemon battles patent troll in lawsuit over sports bra design
High-priced lawyers squared off in a federal appeals court on Wednesday to argue over a $68 sports bra. Lululemon, the popular yoga-wear maker, stands accused by a Boston patent troll of stomping over...
View ArticleLululemon wins battle against patent troll in less than 24 hours
Lululemon is free to slap pockets on its sports bras, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. A Boston-based patent troll, Blackbird Technologies, had sued the yoga wear brand, claiming the...
View ArticleOxyContin maker now in the opioid addiction treatment business
Rhodes Technologies Inc. has been granted a patent for a new drug that could help treat opioid addiction. This sounds like good news at first — like someone’s actually doing something to fight the...
View ArticleJuul files suits against ‘copycat’ e-cigarette rivals
Juul Labs, the e-cigarette maker at the heart of a US crackdown on youth vaping, has filed patent infringement complaints in the United States and Europe against what it said were copycat rivals. The...
View ArticleWalmart may soon track heart rates through shopping carts
Walmart wants to know exactly how its customers are feeling. The US retail giant applied for a patent, published in August, for a smart shopping cart that can track a shopper’s heart rate, body...
View ArticleVolkswagen reportedly settles Broadcom patent lawsuit
Germany’s Volkswagen has struck a deal with US semiconductor maker Broadcom, ending a billion-dollar patent lawsuit that pitted the carmaker against its supplier, a source close to Volkswagen told...
View ArticleApple loses appeal of $440M VirnetX patent judgment
A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judgment worth $440 million that was won by intellectual property licensing firm VirnetX against Apple in a patent infringement case. The US Court of Appeals for...
View ArticleAmazon developing device that reads human emotion
Amazon is reportedly developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The gadget, meant to be worn on a person’s wrist, is reportedly a health and wellness product...
View ArticleAmazon wants to use its drones to watch your home
Amazon has filed a patent that proposes, in part, to use a drone to keep tabs on your home. The patent, “Unmanned aerial vehicle-based surveillance as a service,” discusses “surveillance alerts” and...
View ArticleApple files patent for mixed reality headset with face tracking
Apple has filed a patent for a mixed reality headset that could include sensors to track users' facial features, eyes and hands.
View Article‘Shark Tank’ contestant Lori Cheek embroiled in bitter defamation lawsuit
A Long Island man claims a “Shark Tank” contestant has been badmouthing him because he accused her of stealing his business idea.
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