Patents
Reissued patent could give Apple control of location-based services
Apple Insider reports Apple has been granted a location services patent that is so basic it could possibly cover any existing location-based system, giving the iPhone maker a powerful weapon in its already formidable intellectual property arsenal.
It was revealed that the US Patent and Trademark Office issued Apple a patent on Tuesday that pre-dates current [...]
LTE Patent Battle
DailyWireless reports The dream of driving down LTE royalty levels dramatically is fading, says Caroline Gabriel at Rethink Research. Intel and Samsung have sought to spearhead an open, transparent and low royalty structure for WiMAX patents and formed the Open Patent Alliance (OPA) in June 2008.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with LTE. Qualcomm [...]
2G/3G Patent IP Ownership
Interesting charts on who owns what 2G/3G IP and what they collect in royalties for that IP.
The same report states that Apple pays significantly less royalty for the iPhone. It is suspected to be in the 5.5% range.
A Software Defined Radio for Emergency Applications
Available now for licensing???…
Description of Invention:
To date, many of the approaches to software-defined radio have primarily focused on baseband features, leaving RF subsystems intact. Some current technologies combine many radio-unique baseband and RF features to realize a multifunctional radio. Such an approach is costly and inefficient in terms of power utilization and weight. Realizing [...]