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As per the documents organized with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the search giant, Google has acquired approximately 1,000 patents from IBM Corp, according to reports.

"Sony has filed a patent for technology that allows smartphones scan fingerprints via their screens."

The Samsung-Apple battle over patent infringement seems to be never ending, with Apple attempting to get Samsung devices banned from sale.

"It's been indicated that those boys at Google may well be working on another Nexus handset, and judging by the series of patents that have been filed with the US patents office, it looks set to come with its own slide-out QWERTY keyboard."

Apple Inc. has applied a patent for ad hoc networking based on content and location that once executed and will also facilitate iPhone users to search and contact close by outsiders on the foundation of their shared interests, innovative reports unveiled.

Google's chief legal officer Wednesday issued a stinging rebuke of what he called "bogus patent" attacks on the Android operating system by major competitors like Apple, Oracle and Microsoft.

Xiaomi has registered a new design patent for a smartphone that uses a similar design with the World Intellectual Property Offic...

"This year's April Fools 2012 Round-up contains some of the strangest notions yet, and as everyone knows at this time of year - some the the most promising concepts for our odd, odd future! Starting with of course Google's collection of such jokes - they've been on point with some of the most in-depth April 1st tricks for several years now, and we wouldn't want to deprive you of a single one of them. They start with an 8-Bit Google Maps - what else, of course! There's also Virgin Volcanic, Apple's patent of the rectangle, and Toshiba's announcement of several "Shapes" tablets which you can see in a lovely TV commercial below."

While Google is giving plenty of lip service to the opportunity to "support and expand the Android ecosystem" with Motorolas resources, not the least of which are its tens of thousands of patents, Motorola also makes an awful lot of products that could be of interest to Google.

Researchers from the University of Surrey have teamed up with US artificial intelligence company Dabus to file patents in an AI system's name, but the idea of recognising AI as an inventor has received mixed response from the industry.