Samsung Plans 'No Settlement' with Apple

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Samsung and Apple patent lawsuits are ongoing in 10 nations, and it seems that they still have lots of patent lawsuits to be continued. 

They have been accusing each other of using same designs and mobile technologies, and it seems not easy to be settled soon. Recently HTC announced that Apple and HTC had settled to end all legal actions and signed a 10-year licensing agreement. People in this industry keep their eyes on other company's actions after HTC's decision.

Despite the latest HTC’s decision, Samsung announced that they had no plan to settle its ongoing patent suits with Apple. JK Shin, the head of Samsung mobile, told "no intention at all" of negotiating or settling with Apple on patent lawsuits.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-samsung-settlement-apple.html

Creative Idea Useful Invention Designs

The Intuitive Extinguisher, Easy Trigger! 

The Easy Trigger Fire Extinguisher has different and unique design from ordinary. 

When a fire breaks out, people easily get confused finding and operating fire extinguishers.

The Easy Trigger Fire Extinguisher, is not required to read tutorials before operate. Users can just pull out the trigger and push the activation button! This design is a 2012 iF Design Talents entry, and designers are Shim Wonbo and Moon Woojung of SADI. For more pictures and description, Click here 

High-tech Bag Tag Finder

You don’t have to wait standing besides conveyor belt to claim your baggage. Tag Finder will notice you when your baggage is on the belt with light and beeps. Tag Finder is a 2011 iF concept design entry and the designer is Donguk Seo. For more pictures and description, Click here.

Gluing The Edges

You may have experienced when you apply stick glue on the edge of a paper and the table gets sticky, too. This glue stick named InGlue, has the adhesive inside the cap so you can glue on the edge side of a sheet without messing around. The cap can be removed, too! For more pictures and description, Click here 

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Cisco Goes Offense Against Patent Trolls

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Cisco Systems Inc has decided to go on offense against patent trolls, Wall Street Journal reported. These firms (patent trolls) purchase patents in bulk and sue other companies for infringement. According to the Journal, “the networking-equipment maker has captured the attention of patent experts and lawyers across the country by filing strongly worded legal claims against two companies that buy up patents and seek to make money from them through licensing and litigation.”  

Cisco already has filed complaints against Chicago-based Innovatio IP Ventures LLC and Ottawa-based Mosaid Technologies Inc. for using ”misleading, fraudulent and unlawful” tactics. 

The Journal added what Robin Feldman, a law professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law and author of a recent book on patents, commented about CISCO’s lawsuit against Innovatio and Mosaied Technologies.

“Sometimes, lawsuits are about how much damage you can threaten in order to change behavior,"

"At the very least, Cisco might get that. Or it could get a sympathetic judge or jury that takes Cisco's case and runs with it."

Read the original article on WSJ for more detailed information here.

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