Friday, March 7, 2008

Lunar Design for Modu

Lunar Design a leader in consumer, technology and medical product design announced today its collaboration with the latest innovator in the mobile phone industry, modu (see post).

Lunar Design's credentials include designs for leading innovators, such as Apple, SanDisk, Hewlett Packard and Oral B. Lunar along with the modu design team have given shape to the modu vision.

Lunar's challenge was to create a design that expresses modu's differences. "The modu is the core component of an ecosystem. Rather than just design a shrunken mobile phone, we wanted to create a memorable and jewel-like symbol for modu," said John Edson, Lunar Design president. "The phone is crafted from super durable stainless steel, and visually it has what we call 'thumbnail equity,' i.e. the simple form and domino dot pattern are still recognizable from a distance."

Lunar designed some of the first fashionable jackets announced in conjunction with February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain: a set of music jackets and an entertainment jacket. For these products, Lunar extended the symbol of the modu into products that are designed to appeal to the edgy young and hip market.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lego-style Cellphone Is Here

Move Over iPhone - DIY Cellphones Are Coming. The lure of Apple's iPhone notwithstanding, most cell phones today are essentially variations on the same theme. Not so modu, a tiny, modular phone that is designed to be snapped into other devices.

Resembling a black and white domino, the modu is smaller than a credit card and weighs just 1.3 ounces. It can be used on its own as a fully functional mobile phone, or it can be snapped into a variety of interchangeable 'sleeves' that enhance the phone with other capabilities. By slipping a modu into the modu media mate, for example, users can download and share movie clips with their friends. Inserting it in the modu music slider, on the other hand, transforms it into a high-end music phone equipped with dedicated music functionality keys, high-quality loudspeaker and hidden camera. modu night mate lets users dock their phone next to their bed while it quietly displays their incoming SMS messages and calls. Through a partnership with Universal Music Group, a series of music jackets will include artist-specific attributes and access to preloaded content and music subscriptions. modu features 1GB of built-in memory and Bluetooth connectivity, and can also be used as a mass storage device. The first modu products are due in the fourth quarter of this year; prices, reportedly, will be USD 200 for the phone module bundled with two jackets, with additional jackets priced from USD 20 to USD 60 each.

Israeli modu was founded in 2007 by Dov Moran, founder and CEO of USB flash drive maker msystems, and the modu device was unveiled earlier this month. Strategic partners include leading mobile network operators including Telecom Italia's mobile division TIM, BeeLine (VimpelCom) of Russia and Israel's Cellcom along with mainstream consumer electronics manufacturers including Blaupunkt, the company says. Opportunities include degrees of customization that were previously unthinkable. http://www.modumobile.com/

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Wide Claims Need Wide Disclosure

feb 13 2008 Hal Wegner of Foley and Lardner reports:

Today in Sitrick v. Dreamworks, LLC., __ F.3d __ (CAFC 2008)(Moore,J.), a
panel affirmed a trial court judgment of invalidity for want of enablement
under 35 USC 112, 1, because although the claimed method relating to
integrating a user's audio signal or visual image in a pre-existing video
game or movie was enabled for videogames, there was no enablement shown
for all aspects of the generic invention, viz., movies were not enabled:
"The full scope of the claimed invention must be enabled. ...  A patentee
who chooses broad claim language must make sure the broad claims are fully
enabled."

Sitrick v. Dreamworks represents a continuation of a trend over the past
fifteen years in the post-Markey era to restrict the scope of generic
coverage of inventions.

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