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Title: Apple gets patent for 3-year-old smartwatch design labeled 'iTime' Post by: HCK on July 23, 2014, 09:00:17 pm Apple gets patent for 3-year-old smartwatch design labeled 'iTime'
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office served up further evidence on Tuesday that Apple is designing a smartwatch when it awarded the company a patent for a wrist-worn gadget with a touchscreen and ability to communicate with a smartphone.</p><p>“The invention pertains to an electronic wristwatch,” wrote Apple in the filing for U.S. Patent 8,787,006 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=(361%2F679.03.CCLS.+AND+20140722.PD.)&OS=ccl/361/679.03+and+isd/7/22/2014&RS=(CCL/361/679.03+AND+ISD/20140722)), which was submitted in July 2011 but made public on Tuesday.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2456940/apple-gets-patent-on-itime-smart-watch.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple gets patent for 3-year-old smartwatch design labeled 'iTime' (http://www.macworld.com/article/2456940/apple-gets-patent-on-itime-smart-watch.html#tk.rss_all) |