It's a little more meta than usual today — probably because we're a little more sleep-deprived than usual. Which is to say, we haven't slept in days. The Verge office has some really good coffee, and for whatever reason Mariah Carey has become the backup musical selection when we run out of...
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Back in May, the International Trade Commission sided with Microsoft in a patent dispute against Motorola and its Android devices — Motorola faced an import ban that would go into effect within 60 days because its Android phones and tablets...
A Mitt Romney campaign video that features Barack Obama singing Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" has been pulled from YouTube at the request of the label. Public Knowledge found that the video had been taken down at the request of publisher BMG Rights Management, which manages the work of song co-writer Al Jackson, Jr. The Romney video juxtaposed Obama's performance (which is featured in many...
Intellectual Properly is a series where we seek to set the record straight on the day's hottest patent, copyright and related intellectual property issues in the tech world.
It's Tuesday, so you know what that means: newly minted patents are here. Today's fun comes straight from Cupertino via the US Patent and Trademark Office and includes another scrolling patent — US patent no. 8,223,134 to be exact. The '134 patent claims priority back to 2007 and includes pretty broad coverage on a disappearing vertical scroll bar on portable touch screen devices. Here's a summary of the key portions of the first and broadest claim in the patent:
Another weapon in Apple's patent war?
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