But will it be a standalone VR headset? Will it be the first upgrade to the original HTC Vive? HTC did obligate to produce a Google Daydream machine.
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Essential Products infringing on “Spigen Essential” franchise, letter claims
Spigen uses the registered term "Essential" to describe its value-level phone accessories. The patent office even blocked Essential Products' filings.
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Samsung files for “Infinity Display” trademark, so get ready for some Galaxy S8 marketing
So, it's between the 18:9 LG "FullVision" display on the G6 or the 18.5:9 "Infinity Display" on the Samsung Galaxy S8 — we think. So, which one for you?
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What might “Bixby Vision” have to do with the Samsung Galaxy S8?
First, "Bixby," now, "Bixby Vision." The names are suspected to be the branding for Samsung's digital assistant for the Galaxy S8.
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Nokia’s Viki said to take on every other voice assistant
Cortana. Alexa. Kestra. Bixby. Viki?
Nokia has just filed for trademark protection for the name “Viki” with the European Union. The term is classified to apply to the following:
Software for the creation and monitoring of mobile and web digital asssistants working with knowledge and combining all data sources into a single chat and voice based interface.
In other words, another proprietary digital assistant, if not a Google Assistant.
HMD Global launched the Nokia 6 smartphone in China this week, the first of several to come this year, so we’re trying to see where Viki will land and, if it will, how.
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Samsung’s Viv on the Galaxy S8 could have characters called Bixby and Kestra
Multiple trademark applications filed at Korean and European intellectual property regulators are showing off what may become of Samsung’s acquired Viv artificial intelligence technology on the Galaxy S8.
The chaebol announced that a voice assistant would debut with the new phone(s) this coming spring. Sure, you might consider them a dime for a dozen these days, but Samsung is tops when it comes to global smartphone sales volume. The chaebol would have a domain to command over and mine data from if it established an assistant. But in order to do that, the AI will need to act a little more like a human. Part of that begins with giving the voice that a customer will be talking with a name.
The KIPRIS and EUIPO have entries for different pronunciations and spellings of “Bixby” and “Kestra” [PDF download] filed under Samsung’s banner. Both of them are proposed to be used for purposes related to smartphones, software and/or hardware for dictation, voice recognition and other intelligent tasks requiring voice control. The likeliest scenario the two words will be used in will be in naming two voices or characters that might fall under a unified “S Voice” or “Viv” service. GalaxyClub.nl is also speculating that the two may refer to names of individual services provided by the new service.
Samsung acquired Viv Labs, the artificial intelligence company founded by one of the co-creators of Siri, in October.
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What could LG V20 S trademark in Europe mean?
Europe is assured not to see the LG V20 in its most common form direct from retailers. Heck, even UK unlocked smartphone retailer Clove wasn’t able to snag the phone through its backchannel negotiations.
But a version of the V20 could be headed the continent’s way anyways. That’s at least what we’re speculating with a trademark appearance at the EU’s Intellectual Property Office.
An trademark protection application from LG for the “V20 S” was filed yesterday. The word mark can apply to “Smartphones; Portable communications apparatus” among other wireless equipment.
No associated leaks have been dug up just yet on the V20 S. We do know that there was an LG G5 SE that featured a lesser Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 than the 820 on regular G5 units. On the other hand, there’s an off-chance that this could be European branding for the smaller, water-resistant V34 that’s currently exclusively sold in Japan.
We’ll have to wait and see if this trademark gets activated — the holiday season is essentially upon us.
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Surface Studio, Surface Dial trademarked in Slovenia ahead of Microsoft event
Microsoft is all-in on Surface and it could also be all-in on an all-in-one PC. And it could be in on a conspiracy to hide the name of this product from the public before it releases it — funny, huh?But at least one trademark ninja — well, The Trademark Ninja — has decided to connect the dots to find out what a Slovenian technology firm has to do with this ...
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Apple sues accessories maker for counterfeit chargers on Amazon
Just as often as entities sue Apple, Apple sues others back. This week, it laid a complaint against a company called Mobile Star which Amazon has sourced Lightning connector chargers from.Amazon labeled at least one product, a generic 5W Apple-style charger with a 1-meter ...
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Blass: HTC Bolt headed for Sprint next month
This is going to be one mad dash of a few weeks coming up for HTC, especially as it hits the floor against LG V20 availability. First, there are the Desire 10 phones that are scheduled for launch on September 20, oriented toward mid-range markets. Then we have the Google Pixel ...
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HTC Bolt trademark a sign the company wants to regain its “Thunder”?
There’s nothing right now to indicate that HTC is working on anything mind-blowing or groundbreaking or buzzword buzzword buzzword, but perhaps we should be looking for something, right? No, we’re not talking about another Desire phone. In fact, what we’re talking about may not be even a phone at all.HTC has applied for a trademark in the US, protecting the term “HTC BOLT,” on September 2.We can’t tie this to HTC and Verizon’s first LTE ...
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Want a Blue Coral Galaxy Note 7? Samsung files a trademark application for a color
According to Evan Blass, it will be the Galaxy Note 7 that greets us on August 2nd and there will be an iris scanner that greets our vision and authenticates our presence soon enough. There will be a 5.7-inch quad HD Super AMOLED display, as there will be a 12-megapixel camera with Dual Pixel focusing and IP68 ingress protection.Another “will” of late? Color. Blass is calling ...
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Moto Z trademark application spotted at the USPTO
It seems that we can very nearly confirm Evan Blass’s reporting on Motorola using the “Moto Z” brand in some way. The company has a trademark application filed at the US Patent and Trademark for the term dated May 17.In his VentureBeat article, Blass detailed how the Moto Z term would replace the Moto X branding on the company’s flagship smartphones, including ones produced for Verizon Wireless under a line called “
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Could a Huawei 7P help the company make 140 million shipments this year?
HTC is rumored to have the next few Nexus phones down for a lock. So, what’s going on with the news that Huawei has filed for trademark protections of the term, “Huawei 7P”? Like, what?Sure, Huawei had a terrific time with the Nexus 6P — it stretched the company’s high-end footprint by providing a high-end, stock Android mobile experience to
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Patent and trademark pushes show off an eye-catching Samsung Gear Blink
First-person-view cameras, sometimes called “action cameras,” have been pretty popular in the marketplace. But while these cameras are fairly small, when attached to a human, they’re not exactly low-profile. Google Glass shrunk down the camera and put it in an infamous pair of glasses.But Samsung may be onto something with a camera in a contact lens.SamMobile is reporting that the ...
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