Recent Posts Tagged With 'patents'

• What’s New Today in Apple Patent-land: Touchy sound effects

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 13:41 in Software, innovation, patents, mobility, user experience

  Today’s feature Apple patent application is number 20090292993: Graphical User Interface Having Sound Effects For Operating Control Elements and Dragging Objects Abstract Systems and methods for providing an enhanced auditory behavior to a gra...

• Trademark Wars: North Face VS South Butt

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 18:57 in patents, user experience, geek wear

  It’s sometimes the case that trademarks are mocked for political reasons. This time, a teenager named Jimmy Winkelmann decided that he needed to challenge the “branded kids”. His The South Butt brand and logo obviously mock The...

• Awesomeness packed into a 3G Turbo Stick

  Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 15:32 in gadgets, patents, mobility, walmart, user experience, bell-canada, 3g-wireless, turbo-stick, wireless-internet-usb

  12 years ago, a few of us at Nortel tried to envision what types of services could be made possible with a high-speed third-generation wireless network. In my mind, the network was the service. In 1999, we filed a US patent for “Wireless net...

• USPTO Site Redesign: WT… LOL

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 07:25 in Branding, patents, usability, user experience, uspto, site-redesign, uspto-beta

  The US Patent and Trademark Office has launched a beta version of its redesigned website, aimed to enhance the user experience. Other than minor navigation changes, we’re not spotting a lot of actual usability improvements. The search system...

• Patent Wars: Apple tries to keep up to Zune

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 07:06 in Software, innovation, gadgets, media, patents, zune, user experience, social-media, apple-patent, apple-tuner, community-based-help, microsoft-patent

  Do you know what makes Zune a superior mp3 player? It supports file formats that were invented back in 1933! yep 76 year old files - namely - FM radio. Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s cunning visionaries, Apple published a patent applicati...

• Trademark Wars: Will the REAL NetBook please rise!

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 19:16 in business, Branding, patents, trademarks, mobility, bones, user experience, psion, netbook, psion-teklogix

  Love ‘em or hate ‘em. NetBooks are here to stay. You may have heard about the trademark controversy that erupted last December over the term “netbook”. Psion Teklogix, a Canadian manufacturer of industrial grade POS and mo...

• apparently i invented wireless networks. lol

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 19:45 in Pirates, patents, user experience, nortel-patents, uspto-10-years, wireless-personal-networks

  I was granted a new patent by the USPTO today. That’s not unusual. Jobe and I have oooodles of patents. This one is odd though… for Patent # 7,486,628 there are three unusual things… 1. I filed this thing in 1999. I haven’...

• Cops vs Traffic Lights

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 09:25 in traffic, patents, cops, user experience, traffic-lights

  Ok, so we all know about the invention of traffic lights, but are traffic lights better than police officers for directing traffic and increasing traffic flow? Last week, La Chaudière bridge was closed which broke one of the main arteries between Ot...

• Where the hell is Thomas Edison when you need him?

  Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 11:26 in health, environment, innovation, gadgets, patents, user experience, lightbulbs, eden-park, flat-light-bulb, joonhuyn-kim, microplasma, quality-lighting

  Too bad he died in 1931. I am forever frustrated by the lightbulb industry. Why doesn’t anyone focus on the quality and efficiency of artificial light. There’s so much potential for innovation. Incandescent tungsten lamps are energy ...