Global Patent

International patent filings declined last year for the first time in 14 years due to higher interest rates and economic uncertainty, the UN said Thursday, with India among the few countries bucking the trend.

Finnish telecom giant Nokia said Tuesday it is suing Amazon in five global jurisdictions, including the United States and India, over patent infringements on video-related technologies.

SAP SE's Indian arm hopes to double its share of the German software giant's patents and add 3,000 jobs per year as it bets bigger on artificial intelligence, a top executive told Reuters on Thursday. SAP Labs India Managing Director Sindhu Gangadharan hopes the Indian unit will scale up its share of global SAP patents to 50 percent from 25 percent...

GoPro Max 2 is confirmed to be in the works, and a successor to the first-generation Max-series camera will be launched by the company nearly four years after the original model arrived. Patent applications filed by the company last year also shed some light on the company's plans for its next camera, including the ability to automatically frame vi...

India now has over 127 global patents for 6G technology, Union Minister for Communications Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

China's Lenovo Group must pay US technology firm InterDigital $138.7 million (nearly Rs. 1,150 crore) for a licence for its portfolio of telecommunications patents, London's High Court ruled on Thursday in the latest round of a long-running dispute. InterDigital brought the lawsuit against Lenovo in 2019 over the terms on which Lenovo should ta...

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday pitched for increasing efforts at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for getting patent waivers for diagnostics and therapeutics used to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Samsung has acquired licences for key 5G technologies from Huawei. The agreement is said to cover 5G, Wi-Fi, and audio-video codecs. In addition, Oppo and Huawei have also signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement.

Newly published documents reveal that global entertainment giant Sony applied for a patent in 2021 for a system that tracks digital assets in video games using blockchain technology, specifically NFTs.

Apple has reportedly acquired a patent for a display material that has self-healing properties. It could also provide flexibility to the display.

Qualcomm is bracing the slowdown in smartphone demand to hit its handset chips business. Global smartphone shipments will reportedly fall 3.5 percent this year. Meanwhile, Qualcomm has extended its patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics through the end of 2030.

Apple filed a patent which showed that the company wanted to put a camera inside the Apple Watch’s Digital Crown. However, it is not a guarantee that patent will turn into a product.

A 5G technology standard developed in India has become part of global standards which will be adopted by companies locally as well as across the world, a senior official of Indian telecom standards body TSDSI said.

After months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members on Wednesday took a first, small step towards a deal aimed at boosting production of Covid vaccines and treatments through patent waivers or compulsory licensing deals.

Ericsson has reached a "multi-year" agreement on global patent licences with Samsung, the Swedish telecom equipment maker said, ending a dispute that hit its first-quarter revenue.

International patent filings declined last year for the first time in 14 years due to higher interest rates and economic uncertainty, the UN said Thursday, with India among the few countries bucking the trend.

Finnish telecom giant Nokia said Tuesday it is suing Amazon in five global jurisdictions, including the United States and India, over patent infringements on video-related technologies.

SAP SE's Indian arm hopes to double its share of the German software giant's patents and add 3,000 jobs per year as it bets bigger on artificial intelligence, a top executive told Reuters on Thursday. SAP Labs India Managing Director Sindhu Gangadharan hopes the Indian unit will scale up its share of global SAP patents to 50 percent from 25 percent...

GoPro Max 2 is confirmed to be in the works, and a successor to the first-generation Max-series camera will be launched by the company nearly four years after the original model arrived. Patent applications filed by the company last year also shed some light on the company's plans for its next camera, including the ability to automatically frame vi...

India now has over 127 global patents for 6G technology, Union Minister for Communications Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

China's Lenovo Group must pay US technology firm InterDigital $138.7 million (nearly Rs. 1,150 crore) for a licence for its portfolio of telecommunications patents, London's High Court ruled on Thursday in the latest round of a long-running dispute. InterDigital brought the lawsuit against Lenovo in 2019 over the terms on which Lenovo should ta...

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday pitched for increasing efforts at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for getting patent waivers for diagnostics and therapeutics used to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Samsung has acquired licences for key 5G technologies from Huawei. The agreement is said to cover 5G, Wi-Fi, and audio-video codecs. In addition, Oppo and Huawei have also signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement.

Newly published documents reveal that global entertainment giant Sony applied for a patent in 2021 for a system that tracks digital assets in video games using blockchain technology, specifically NFTs.

Apple has reportedly acquired a patent for a display material that has self-healing properties. It could also provide flexibility to the display.

Qualcomm is bracing the slowdown in smartphone demand to hit its handset chips business. Global smartphone shipments will reportedly fall 3.5 percent this year. Meanwhile, Qualcomm has extended its patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics through the end of 2030.

Apple filed a patent which showed that the company wanted to put a camera inside the Apple Watch’s Digital Crown. However, it is not a guarantee that patent will turn into a product.

A 5G technology standard developed in India has become part of global standards which will be adopted by companies locally as well as across the world, a senior official of Indian telecom standards body TSDSI said.

After months of debate, World Trade Organization (WTO) members on Wednesday took a first, small step towards a deal aimed at boosting production of Covid vaccines and treatments through patent waivers or compulsory licensing deals.

Ericsson has reached a "multi-year" agreement on global patent licences with Samsung, the Swedish telecom equipment maker said, ending a dispute that hit its first-quarter revenue.