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Nanolumens Awarded Patents On Flexible Led Display Technology

by Bob Raikes

NanoLumens, the industry-leading designer of indoor and outdoor LED visualization solutions in any size, shape, or curvature, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has, to date, issued more than 18 …

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Nanolumens has 18 Patents and Plans to Defend Them

by Bob Raikes

Nanolumens has said in a press release that it has been awarded US Patents number 8,963,895, 9,013,367, 9,058,755, 9,159,707, 9,326,620, and others for its LED displays, which it can make in curved or flat …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 49

MicroVision Signs Patent License Agreement with Taiwanese ODM

by Bob Raikes

MicroVision, Inc., a leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and sensing technology, today announced that it has signed a license agreement for its PicoP® scanning technology with a Taiwanese ODM. MicroVision and the ODM …

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Nichia Wins Injunction Against Everlight in Germany

by Bob Raikes

Nichia has been granted injunctions by the Düsseldorf District Court against Everlight over claims that the company’s white LED products infringe Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929). Analyst Comment The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Apple Granted Patent for Flexible Phones

by Bob Raikes

PatentlyApple has posted news of a US patent (9,485,862) granted to Apple that was apparently filed under the name of an Apple engineer until granting, so that it remained ‘under the radar’. The patent …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Two Backplanes: 1) Wow, and 2) Incroyable!

by Ken Werner

Let’s start with Wow. Sharp has been using its hard-earned IGZO expertise in a variety of creative ways, one of which is to use the speedy TFT technology to fabricate gate drivers on the …

Tags:IGZO| Patents| sharp| TFT| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Apple vs Samsung Reaches Supreme Court

by Bob Raikes

The dispute between Apple and Samsung over patents got to the US Supreme Court this week, with Samsung seeking to win a reduction in the $548 million damages that Apple was awarded last year …

Tags:Apple| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Patent Granted by USPTO for Crystalplex Corp.’s Sapphire Quantum Dots

by Isaac Oburu

Crystalplex Corp. today announced the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued U. S. Patent No. 9,425,253, “Passivated Nanoparticles,” assigned to Crystalplex. The patent, which claims the fabrication and use of SapphireTM quantum …

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Smartphone Forecast Drops as Competition Builds

by Steve Sechrist

For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| Market Data| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 35

And Finally…Vol 23 No 31

by Tom Allen

And Finally…Samsung was caught red-handed this week, using images that are clearly of the Apple Watch in one of its own patent filings! The document, which deals with an update to the Samsung Gear, …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Compiling the Evidence of Apple’s AR/VR Interest

by Tom Allen

If there is any company whose absence has been noted in the AR/VR space, it is Apple. While rivals like Samsung and Microsoft sit on top of a steadily growing ecosystem, there has been …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Patents| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 32