Patent Application | "Apple Files A Patent Application For A New App Which Detects Hand Position."

By : IPS Staffs
Category : Patent Application

Apple has been coming up with lots of innovative ideas. One of the innovations was its sensor- based keyless layout. This time it has something new for Patent Application. The new innovation is about detecting hand position and overlaps it on the screen of the device. For this the company is planning to use more sophisticated cameras and sensors.

The patent application has shown three different methods for this innovation. The first shows a generic keyboard and the users hand which is projected in an on-screen representation. The second method shows a laptop with a keyboard but the keys are not labeled but a labeled keyboard is shown on the screen. The last method shows a tablet and its controls on the back. On this it shows a user’s finger which is projected making it look as the device is transparent.

However, this is just a patent application for now, so we cannot expect it to be a reality sometime soon.

Patent Application | "Patent Applications By Apple & More"

By : IPS Staffs
Category : Patent Application

New iphone model is waiting to be introduced on 12th -Sept – 2012. This new version is expected to have a bigger screen, good battery life and many new and smart features.

However, one needs to take a look at Apple’s patent portfolio, to find out Apple’s future plans for the iPhone and for its patent applications. Thomson Reuters IP group has done the same for their report release.

If you look through you will find out that in 2010 Apple had filed a patent application to patent a miniature fuel-cell power. With the help of this product iPhone and iPad could go on without recharging for weeks. This same technology is now being used in Europe by some hybrid electronic buses.
There was another patent filed by Apple for supersmart multimedia hypertext. It is the type pad for mobile devices for touch screen. The patent application drawing shows a finger touching on the word “Apple.

On one of the patent application issue a report stated that there are many patent applications filed by Samsung as many as 4000. This number is way more than that of Apple. It looks like Samsung has put in every effort possible to protect its innovations.

Patent Application | "TOTAL OF 6,848 PATENT APPLICATIONS WERE FILED IN 10 YEARS TIME SPAN IN CZECH."

By : IPS Staffs
Category : Patent Application

Total of 6,848 patent applications were filed by Czechs between 2002 and 2011. Out of 6,848 applications the Industrial Property Office approved only 2,904 patents and 10,624 were overall recorded as industrial patterns.

The average time for the process of Czech applicants was 3.3 years as stated by the officials.

The success rate of the applications filed for the patent is about 47% which is almost half among the patent applications filed for inventions for patent.

The application numbers have been steadily rising since the year 2008 in case of patents, while for industrial patterns the figure has been growing since 2006 already.
The success rate of paten process is 88% for the public universities which takes about 2.3 years.

However, for the public research institutes the success rate is 86% and takes less than 3 years.

The Czech companies are granted 61% of the patent for their inventions, the patent procedure for this is around 3.3 years.
However, the patent process over 3.5 years, in the case of natural person on top of that the success rate is less than 1/3.

In 2011 the country registered 1,998 total valid patents from the domestic applicants. Out of the 1,998 1,094 were companies, the number of applications form natural persons were 272, public universities recorded 285 applications and the total of 215 were filed by the public research institutions.

Nevertheless, the number of applications along with the granted patents is expected to grow in future.