According to Judge Koh, the jury reasonably found Apple's two phone design patents (D'087 and D'677) and
its user interface design patent (D'305) to be valid and infringed.
Not exact matches
Last year, Apple sued HTC for infringing on iPhone
patents covering the graphical
user interface and the underlying
design.
The four
design patents all claimed
designs for particular elements of the Microsoft Office graphical
user interface (GUI).
Corel noted that each of Microsoft's
design patents claimed an «ornamental
design for a
user interface for a portion of a display screen, as shown and described...» Corel argued that the relevant article of manufacture for each of the
design patents was, therefore, a display screen.
From physical products to computer
user interfaces and even clothing — a
Design Patent protects the aesthetic qualities (the look) of your product from substantially similar variations.
But as Nokia's name returns to the stage, there's been some attention to a renewed partnership with optics manufacturer Zeiss and a transfer of
design patents from Microsoft that cover, among many other things, the
user interface featured on the beloved Lumia Camera app for Windows Phone.
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The US
Patent Office also granted Microsoft three additional
design patents titled «Display screen with graphical
user interface.»
A new round of interesting
design patents that were granted to Samsung today includes a new smartphone, 3 new speaker
designs, a new tablet backside
design with a baffle to better handle heat build - up and a smartphone
User Interface design.
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BlackBerry claims its
patents cover cryptographic techniques
designed to protect
user privacy by encrypting communications between
users, the integration of mobile games into messaging services, and
user interface elements such as notification bubbles, message timestamps and the ability to tag people in photos.