Apple Blazes A Trail With Streaming Route Sharing Patent

Apple has a new patent that could result in interesting use cases, including getting navigation directions from a robot scouting ahead, or live route information from your local friend when you’re visiting an unfamiliar city. The new patent (via AppleInsider) describes the sharing of live path tracking between devices, which goes beyond the kind of location sharing in Find My Friends by giving you an evolving map of the specific route another device is taking in real- time.

Apple ordered to pay $533 million for breaching gaming patents

A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay $532.9 million for infringing on patents held bySmartflash LLC, in software and games delivered through iTunes, reports Bloomberg.

Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung

Gordon Bremer didn't invent Bluetooth 2.0. In fact, as he admitted on the stand last week in an East Texas federal court, he hadn't even read the specification for it until 2007—three years after it was on the market.