The total number of patents granted by the USPTO in 2017 was 351,406, up 5.3 percent from 2016. The percent change for an individual company could be affected by mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and many other
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62 Insane Facts About Bitcoin
Bitcoin was touted as the world’s first decentralized digital currency. It basically is a crypto-currency which uses peer-to-peer technology to provide payment network gateway. Bitcoin is deliberately designed for public use by making it an
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Apple Watches may soon come with self-adjusting bands
Apple’s futuristic technology is not only limited to a design perspective but they are also working to provide its users greater comfort as well. One of the biggest problems with the Apple Watch was its
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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ may have an in-display fingerprint scanner
Suddenly, everyone is rushing into the bezel less all screen smartphone market. This is pretty much the same way everyone started providing fingerprint sensors with the launch of Apple iPhone 5s. Several phone brands have
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Disney can help you ride with Spider-man
Even after dominating our hearts for decades, Disney has never faltered in finding out ways of providing better and newer experiences to us. If you have ever wished to hang on to Spiderman while he
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Now relax and party while traveling inside Ford’s Driverless cars
It seems as if Ford is all geared up to protect every technology aspect that deals with autonomous vehicles. Recently, Ford protected its idea that might very well revolutionize the way we will travel in
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Home Automation with Smart Speakers – Amazon Echo vs. Google Home vs. Apple HomePod
In our previous article “War of Artificially Intelligent Personal Assistants”, we discussed several Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) that are available in the market. These IPAs can be activated by voice commands and used to control
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IBM – Truly a Patent Leader
IBM – a word synonymous with innovation and patent leadership, has always been a front-runner when it comes to patents issued year-on-year. For the past 24 years it has lead the way in terms of
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Technology Comparison: Google v. Amazon v. Facebook v. Apple
Citius Minds is a technical consulting firm based out of Chicago. We provide specialized patent analytics and litigation services to patent professionals across the globe. We are highly appreciated and loved by our clients
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Patent Filing: Best Practices
Most of us, at some point in our lives, have thought of an idea which we believed would be the ’Next Big Thing’. But how many of us actually do something big with that idea?
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Amazon’s latest patent hints towards On-Demand Clothing!
It looks like Amazon has a great idea to cut down on clothing manufacturing costs. How does it do it? Well, the patent talks about how the clothes only start stitching once an order is
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War of Artificially Intelligent Personal Assistants
Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) can behave as a software agent that can perform tasks, provide information about anything on the globe with/without the internet connection. Intelligent personal assistant technologies are the combination of mobile devices,
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