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(0 comments) (64 hits) (0 comments) The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of X newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover Apple's patent relating to a mixed reality headset with a Dynamic Focus 3D Display. While Conventional VR systems project left and right images onto screens that are viewed by a subject, Apple new way uses a direct retinal projector system that scans the images, pixel by pixel, directly onto the subject's retinas.
According to Apple, conventional virtual reality and augmented reality systems may suffer from accommodation-convergence mismatch problems that cause eyestrain, headaches, and/or nausea. Accommodation-convergence mismatch arises when a VR or AR system effectively confuses the brain of a user by generating scene content that does not match the depth expected by the brain based on the stereo convergence of the two eyes of the user. (Read more at patentlyapple)
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by Sean ChanJun 8, 2020
Samsung, Apple and a host of other companies are currently working on AR devices that could connect to a smartphone or any other device and act as a second interactive screen for the user.
It looks like Samsung might finally found a way to make AR glasses feasible for consumers as the company has filed a new patent detailing how an AR glass may work. According to the patent (via WindowsUnited) published on June 4, 2020, Samsung is working on AR glasses that will connect to another device to project virtual displays.
(105 hits) (0 comments) The uniqueness of the utility model patent system in China lies in its readiness to obtain, and its strong enforcement. Utility models have many advantages in acquiring rights. For example, the cost of applying for a utility model patent is remarkably lower than that of an invention patent; and the prosecution term of a utility model is very short – a UM application can usually be granted within one year with more than 80% of granting rate. A utility model patent also has a lower inventiveness requirement than that of an invention. Facing the same prior art, an invention patent may be invalidated while a utility model with the same claims may be maintained.
With respect to enforcement, the patentee of a UM patent is entitled to file an infringement lawsuit directly after issue of the patent.
According to the litigation system of China, even if the utility model patent is finally invalidated, and thus failed in the infringement case, the losing patentee does not need to compensate the loss of the winning defendant unless the patentee is proved to have sued in bad faith. In the present judicial practice in China, since the recognition of bad faith is very strict, only a few cases have determined that the plaintiff patentee sued in bad faith.
For the reasons mentioned above, and taking over two million UM patent applications that were filed in 2018 into consideration, a considerable amount of utility model patent applications are granted without substantive examination (inventiveness exam) and, in particular, independent claims of many utility model patents are unreasonably broad, even covering prior art. As such, manufacturing enterprises face high patent risks in their operations.
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(84 hits) (0 comments) “The study noted that the United States remains the world ‘patent superpower’, but East Asia has developed by ‘leaps and bounds’ in the last 10 years.”
Independent foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung published a study titled “World class patents in cutting-edge technologies – The innovation power of East Asia, North America and Europe,” which examined how individual countries have advanced in the development and filing of “world class patents” between 2000 and 2019.
While the study showed that North America and Europe have the highest patent efficiencies, it noted that East Asia has “exhibited an unparalleled inventive spirit” and has increased its innovation power in many cutting edge-technologies, such as energy, nutrition, infrastructure, industry and environment.
The United States is the world’s top innovation center “by far” and holds the largest number of world class patents, which cover 50 of the 58 technologies reviewed in the study.
The study noted concerns that Europe is falling behind because digitalization is progressing slowly in Europe “at a time when the fourth industrial revolution is about to fundamentally change the traditional forms of economic activity.”
(92 hits) (0 comments) (115 hits) (0 comments) (73 hits) (0 comments) (78 hits) (0 comments) (66 hits) (0 comments) (88 hits) (0 comments) (93 hits) (0 comments) The idea of using solar panels to give electric cars a little extra boost is nothing new. In fact, the 2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid has a solar roof that helps to run its electronics, and can give it a couple of extra miles of driving range each day. Solar panels aren’t efficient enough at this point to fully charge up an electric car, but the more surface area a solar panel takes up, the more energy it can capture. If you could have a car completely covered with solar panels, it might produce a few more miles a day worth of power, if not more. Recently, Ford Global Technologies filed a patent application for a unique kind of solar charging panel that basically blankets a car when parked. (Read more)
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