Google had recently applied for a patent at the Indian
Patent Office. Google had put forward its inventions comprising of electronic
devices provided in shoes or ankle bracelets for the patent. The method and the
operation by which the devices are to be performed have been given by the
company, but lack a full description and incomplete specification.
Under ‘System and method for wearable electronic
devices” in the year 2007, Google had filed a patent application. Among the
various wearable models listed in the application are electronic communication
devices attached to the clothes, wireless pieces, a shoe that communicates data
to the user, and ankle bracelets that can transmit updated information from the
body to the user. According to the application, the shoe provides functions not
present in existing devices such as cellular phones, and personal digital
assistants, temperature, pulse rate, and a display to showtime. Satellite
navigation receiver, motion sensing unit, humidity sensor are some of the new
features of the wearable device. It also includes a vibrator, air pressure
sensor, temperature sensor, and calendar information. Multiple reasons such as
a lack of inventive steps as required by the Indian Patent Act are the reasons
behind the patent’s rejection. Portable devices worn on the wristwhich allow
transmission and reception of calls are already known, sothis led to rejection.
