The US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that 20 patents relating to scroll technology "lack novelty".
The US patent office routinely grants patents on genes, the only country in the world to do so.
The US Patent Office only revealed Apple's filing on Thursday, but the document dates back to August 2011.
Apple has been denied a trademark for the popular iPad Mini by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Real reform of the US Patent Office and also of the law surrounding US patents is sorely needed.
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The jury has begun deliberating in the US patent trial between the two biggest smartphone-makers in the world, Samsung and Apple.
But what exactly should the US Patent and Trademark Office do to reform itself, particularly where nebulous software claims are concerned?
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As several people are pointing out Apple has been granted a US patent on the slide to unlock feature of the iPhone.
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Apple faces becoming embroiled in a further US patent clash after Samsung said it intended to sue the firm over technology in the new iPhone 5.
As if you needed more evidence that the US patent system is broken Apple has just been awarded one of the most ridiculous patents ever.
Presselite asked Apple to remove the Q Mapps app from its store but was found to have had its trademark application rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Details of an immersive video games display system that projects images of the title's environment around a player's room have been revealed in a US patent belonging to Microsoft.
In the latest move, the US patent office has rejected 13 out of 20 grounds originally cited by Ricetech as the basis for its claim to intellectual property rights.
If you look at hard data, like the number of patents filed in the US patent office, you will find over the last 20 years an exponential curve.
"The US patent is very broad and it is not immediately apparent that Android would be able to retain the meeting scheduling features in their calendar application, " said Mr Alton.
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Overlooked in the persistent rumors around a new iPhone launch, the US Patent Office yesterday denied Apple most of its patent claims on the rubber banding effect on the iPhone.
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Meanwhile, word is out that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of another NTP patent, following the first such rejection, which occurred earlier this week.
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The first patent for strapping an electric motor onto a bike was filed with the US Patent office in 1890 but, lacking sufficient battery power, these early bikes had a very limited range.
Apple has been chasing NFC patents for years, but it's just now been granted a US patent for its own approach to a transportation check-in -- one of the most common uses of the technology in the real world.
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Microsoft... patent for which a violation was found and will help us avoid infringement of this patent in the US market.
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"I think it's been forced on us by the realities of the patent market, " he told us.
One of them is the call rejection patent (US 6253075), another is one that details a way to control call status like hold, end or what have you (US 6070068).
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Using patent analysis studying US semi-conductor firms, they examined the transfer of knowledge between pairs of firms: the firm from which the employee was poached and the poacher.
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The oddity here is that the US is the only country where patent holders get two bites at the cherry.
They examined the movement of patent attorneys between 123 US law firms and 109 Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries.
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Google has now asked the US International Trade Commission, which handles patent disputes, to withdraw both claims.
Previously, Motorola tried to ban sales of the Xbox in US and Germany as part of this patent dispute.
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For this 1-Click patent is valid in the US, Amazon have sued under it (Barnes and Noble) and they are also licencing it (to Apple).
Unfortunately, in order to get cheap ciproflaxacin from India, the U.S. would have to find a way to circumvent the same patent laws that have given us very expensive but life-saving drugs ranging from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) cancer drug Gleevec to Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) cholesterol-fighting drug Zocor.
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