A Taiwanese maker of chips and touchscreens has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban the import and sale of Apple products for alleged violation of a multi-touch patent. Elan ...

Apple has been granted a patent for a multi-touch display that can sense when and where a finger is near the screen. The patent was one of 13 granted to Apple, and revealed on the eve of Wednesday’s ...

Mashable.com has information on a patent Apple filed last April for Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics , which essentially ...

A company that makes touch pads sued Apple Inc. in U.S. District Court yesterday, charging that Apple’s multitouch technology infringes on two of its patents, according to court documents. Hsinchu, ...

Apple blog Patently Apple is reporting that Cupertino's fruit company has filed two separate lawsuits against Motorola for patent infringement, specifically around multi-touch IP. The infringing ...

Apple s multi-touch patent has been the source of much deliberation lately, with a great deal of speculation as to whether the iPhone manufacturer is ready to step in and thwart Palm on a legal level ...

Apple was granted a key patent covering many aspects of the iPhone interface as well as potentially other “multi-touch” handsets. CEO Steve Jobs was listed among the inventors in a 358-page filing ...

Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility don’t infringe on an Apple patent that describes technology that prevents smartphone users from pushing two buttons at the same time on a touch screen, the ...

Apple this week was awarded an iPhone-related patent first filed in December of 2007, a victory that intellectual property experts believe will be significant. The story by author Damon Poeter ...