patents
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Patent Reveals Huge Apple Watch Redesign
The US Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent that features an Apple Watch that is missing its most iconic physical feature – the digital crown.
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Jury Orders Apple To Fork Over $85 Million In Royalties For Wi-LAN Suit
A San Diego jury ruled this week that Apple must pay Quarter Hill Inc.’s Wi-LAN a cool $US85 ($124) million in a patent infringement case that’s been ping-ponging around the courts since 2014, Bloomberg reports.
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Apple, Please Don’t Cram Stuff Into The Apple Watch Band
If patents are to be believed, Apple is potentially mulling moving wireless antennas into the bands of future Apple Watches. The idea is, doing so would free up space in the watch case for other components. This sounds great on paper, and while of course I’d love to see a bigger battery in the Apple…
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Nintendo Is Experimenting With Ways To Make The Switch’s Joy-Cons Even More Fragile
Nintendo is not letting recent troubles with faulty Joy-Con controllers deter it from exploring new ways to innovate its gaming hardware. A recent patent filing with the American USPTO reveals a design for a bendable Switch Joy-Con controller that supposedly improves its ergonomics and usability.