With recent news of Google planning to release a home entertainment system, the question is whether Google will be able to deliver a functional device spanning multiple generations with unique features not found in today’s popular home entertainment systems.
With Facebook’s IPO looming, many investors are asking whether Facebook has protected the technology that has allowed it become the world’s most popular social networking platform.
The rise of cloud computing in the recent decade has fueled many traditional technology powerhouses to develop cutting-edge products for shared and distributed data storage and access.
Research in Motion, Ltd. (RIM), a former powerhouse in the enterprise mobile communication device market, has consistently lost market share over the past few years as its BlackBerry handsets continue to fail to keep up with current-generation Android or iOS devices.
With 990 issued patents, and approximately 2100 pending patent applications, Yahoo has a sizable patent portfolio. Yahoo owns a suite of patented technologies developed in-house and through patents obtained by acquiring Inktomi and Overture Services (which had previously acquired the pioneering search engines AllTheWeb and AltaVista).
With 21 patents related to portable computing devices and associated software, Amazon is dwarfed by the more established tablet players (as covered in our report, The US Tablet Computing Market, July 2011). With its current patent portfolio, Amazon owns approximately 0.2% of total tablet-related patent filings in the United States. Moreover, Amazon has not filed […]
Non-patent literature (NPL) searching is an essential part of the prior art search process. In addition to traditional NPL sources, such as, for example, INSPEC, IEEE Conference Proceedings, ACM Publications, and SPIE databases, Envision IP’s search team utilizes a variety of unconventional NPL sources for search requests that are highly technical in nature. For example, […]
As the struggle for smartphone supremacy continues, mobile device manufacturers now have a new arena in which to wage battle – the tablet market. Though Apple still claims the lion’s share of the United States market with its iPad line, Apple’s competitors have been hard at work developing innovative tablet technologies to eclipse Apple’s stronghold. […]
Prior art includes information that has been made available to the public in any form before the date which an invention was conceived. If an invention has been described in prior art, the invention will not be eligible for patent protection. Typically, the costs associated with hiring a patent attorney to prepare and file your […]
