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The Supreme Court declined Apple’s bid (pdf) for a hearing over two Qualcomm patents (US Patent No. 7,844,037 and US Patent No. 8,683,362) that were part of lawsuits filed in 2017, claiming infringement by Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. Reuters points out that Apple and Qualcomm’s 2019 settlement of a worldwide legal battle over patents largely ended the squabbling in favor of a six-year licensing agreement but allowed a case in front of the Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board to…

GENEVA—The member countries of the World Trade Organization agreed Friday on a narrow measure aimed at boosting the supplies of Covid-19 vaccines in developing countries, wrapping up a bitter fight over corporate patent rights governing critical medical products during a pandemic.The compromise measure on intellectual property rights will make it easier for companies in developing nations such as South Africa to manufacture and export a patented Covid-19 vaccine—under limited circumstances—without a consent from the…

Samsung has reportedly filed patents for 10 new foldable phone designs. These include smartphones with rollable, scrollable, and slidable displays. The patents are representative of Samsung’s vision for the future of foldable phones. Patently Apple was the first to report about these new patents published by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Recently, 10 more patents were filed by Samsung, bringing the total to 20. The Korean tech giant already dominates the foldable smartphone segment with its Fold and…

Apple has reportedly applied for a revamped patent that would support an Apple Pencil mounted above the MacBook keyboard. The claims include the ability to magnetically retain or secure the Pencil when it is placed the storage area and use the pencil as function keys while housed in the chassis. The patent, which the company first applied for last year, imagines the Pencil as a replacement for the function keys row. There's no word from Apple on plans to incorporate the technology in upcoming MacBook models.According to a…

Pfizer Inc. will sell nearly two dozen of its patent-protected drugs and vaccines at not-for-profit prices to some of the world’s poorest countries.Under the program, Pfizer will begin shipping the medicines first to Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda before the end of this year, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview. The arrangement means that some of the drugs that carry list prices of tens of thousands of dollars a year in the U.S. would…

Microsoft has recently filed a patent for a new foldable device that features a reverse-foldable display and allows for using it with one hand, Windowscentral reports.The competition for making better and more practical foldable devices is reaching a whole new level. To date, companies like Microsoft and Samsung have changed the perception of foldable phones with the Surface Duo and Galaxy Z series. Now, Microsoft is planning to push the envelope and bring a new device with a reverse-foldable display.As per the latest…

One of the oldest civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage, Indian civilization has a strong tradition of science and technology. India has been proactively contributing to the field of science years before modern labs were set up. Several theories and techniques discovered by ancient Indians helped create and strengthen the fundamentals of modern technology. It was the Indian numeral system which made mathematics, business deals, modern accounting, and computer technology possible.…

AMD has filed a patent for a program that performs automatic memory overclocking to simplify enthusiasts' lives. The app can automatically test overclocked memory modules for stability and locally store memory overclocking profiles unique to a particular system.  Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) overclocking has existed for decades. At first, companies like Corsair cherry-picked memory ICs that could safely work at high frequencies and/or with low latencies. It then built modules that were guaranteed to work at…

Moderna Inc. is trying to fend off rival companies’ claims that its Covid-19 vaccine infringes their patents, arguing that the companies may only pursue their claims seeking royalties from the federal government.Moderna on Friday filed a motion to dismiss some of the patent-infringement claims in the lawsuit, which was filed in February by two small biotechnology companies, Arbutus Biopharma Corp. and Genevant Sciences GmbH, in federal court in Delaware. ModernaInc. is trying to fend off rival companies’ claims that…

With the current leaps and bounds in technologies that mankind is making, a future filled with autonomous cars is undeniable. However, to take things up a notch, the American multinational automotive manufacturing giant General Motors has come up with something even more radical. The Detroit-based carmaker is recently said to have submitted a patent application for a system that would employ self-driving cars to teach new or inexperienced drivers. According to a media report, General Motors submitted an application…