Change orientation: Apple patents a stylus for touch screen

The new patent applications for Apple, the iPhone Stylus end of the era, the company's interest can be traced to the pen input.
Apple is developing several stylus compatible with the iPhone and the iPad, including the stylus to the handle, which has built-in feedback, according to AppleInsider citing patent applications.

Interestingly, the interest in the pen input, Apple came several years after the company launched a iPhone, the first device with a touch screen, essentially costing a stylus.

In the first of the applications described by the pen with a tiny built-in camera that allows you to increase the accuracy of product management. But a much higher interest is another application called Haptic Input Device ("Input Device with Feedback").

Stating that at the touch of the usual touch-screen user feels a hard surface, engineers have proposed to equip the vibration function is not very mobile device, and a pen. As planned, the pen must receive signals from a device with a touch screen and vibrating properly, so that the user gets the feeling that it deals with various objects and textures on the screen.

"This input device can help you deal with the content shown in the screen and create a more vivid and realistic impression" - said in a patent application filed in the Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) in November 2010 The second application was also filed in 2010

As notes The Register, the date of filing means that the development was carried out stylus during the life of the former head of Apple's Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), who was opposed to such controls. Actually, no iPhone, no iPad does not have a stylus and operated solely by hand.

We add that the placement of applications in the USPTO does not mean that Apple intends to sell patented technology into commercial products.

Nokia loses patent litigation company IPCom

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has lost patent trial German company IPCom. April 20, 2012 the Court of Mannheim found guilty of violating Nokia patents IPCom. It is reported by Yahoo.com.

News - Nokia Secretary Mark Durrant (Mark Durrant) said that the court's decision did not affect the current generation of mobile phones.

"We do not agree with the decision of the court, but all the patents for phones that were listed in the lawsuit were issued in February 2011, and our current products use other methods," - said Durrant.

The court ruling does not appear to violate whether existing phones any patents IPCom. Recall that in 2011 the court in London found that Nokia has not been producing phones that are listed in the lawsuit IPCom.

Motorola found guilty of patent infringement Microsoft

International Trade Commission has recognized the U.S. company Motorola Mobility guilty of patent infringement Microsoft to create mobile phones Android, the company reported Tuesday. The patented technology enables users to schedule meetings on mobile devices. The commission found no violations by the other six claimed in claim Microsoft patents, says Reuters. The final decision will be made in the spring. The Commission will also consider a request to ban imports of Microsoft mobile devices in the U.S.. "We are pleased that most decisions were made in favor of Motorola Mobility", - said the chief adviser to Offer Motorola Mobility Scott. According to statements of Microsoft, a number of devices that use patents to companies that have entered Motorola Droid 2, the Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour, Backflip, and others, including the accompanying software. Recall that in early November, the German Regional Court of Mannheim took the side of Motorola, Apple admitted in violation of the two patents Motorola, which were obtained in EU bodies. One of them describes a technique that transfers data packets in mobile networks, while the second - how to exchange messages between devices.