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Less Poking Around? Google Seeks Patent on Needle-Free Blood Drawing Tech

2015-12-12 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Google has filed for a patent on needle-free blood-drawing technology, described in a USPTO application published last week. Application 20150342509 suggests four potential implementations of the technology, including its use in a device that has an evacuated negative-pressure barrel with a membrane sealing an aperture at the far end containing an accelerator barrel.

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Microsoft, Google end all patent cases, pledge cooperation

2015-10-01 09:25:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Microsoft and Google have agreed to dismiss all the patent-related lawsuits between them, Bloomberg reported, saying the two had around 20 lawsuits pending over uses of patents in mobile phones, Wi-Fi, web video, video game systems and other technologies. The companies will dismiss all patent cases, including those related to Google's former Motorola Mobility smartphone unit but did not disclose if money was involved as part of the agreement. The two companies had been litigating over technology innovations for five years. Google's former Motorola Mobility unit had been demanding royalties on the Xbox video-gaming system, and Microsoft had sought to block Motorola mobile phones from using certain features. The companies also pledged in a statement to work together in other ways related to intellectual property, including development of a royalty-free, video-compression technology to speed downloads, in an initiative that also involves Amazon.com and Netflix. They will in addition lobby for specific rules on a unified patent system throughout Europe.

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Microsoft, Google stand down in patent battles By Andrew Chung NEW...

2015-10-01 01:27:07| Wireless - Topix.net

In another sign of the winding down of the global smartphone wars, the companies said the deal puts an end to court fights involving a variety of technologies, including mobile phones, wifi, and patents used in Microsoft's Xbox game consoles and other Windows products. However, as Microsoft and Google continue to make products that compete directly with each other, including search engines and mobile computing devices, the agreement notably does not preclude any future infringement lawsuits, a Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed.

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Microsoft beats Google in closely watched patent royalty fight

2015-07-31 02:11:43| Wireless - Topix.net

Microsoft won an appeals court ruling that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers. An appeals court in San Francisco Thursday upheld a $14.5 million jury verdict against Google as punishment for unfairly demanding what Microsoft said amounted to billions of dollars for use of patents covering Wi-Fi and video downloads.

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