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| Jun 16, 2026 | SpaceX Seals $60 Billion Cursor Acquisition Four Days After Record IPO | By Richard L. Wells
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| Mar 31, 2026 | 90% or more of Apple, Microsoft, Lilly and Costco Market Value is IP-related, CIPU Illustration Shows | Many of today's most valuable companies are fueled primarily by trademarks, patents and reputation, not "tangibles," like real estate and equipment
Today’s corporations are learning to embrace value from an industrial economy buil... |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Like humans, AI is forcing institutions to rethink their purpose | Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more
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| Mar 27, 2025 | New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Cong... |
| Feb 7, 2025 | AI Is an Answer, But Not the Only Answer — Here's Why It Can't Replace Humans The detriments of lacking human touch due to AI are not unique to the music industry: It's a conversation being grappled with across business industries from retail to media. How do industries strike a balance between ...... | As we emerge from Spotify Wrapped season, many will agree that this past year's recaps looked a bit … different, disappointing some who proclaimed this iteration a "flop" due to over-reliance on generative AI, barely a year after ... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | История Bluetooth: От концепции до глобального стандарта | Трудно представить современный мир без беспроводных технологий. Управлять музыкой на смартфоне, отправлять файлы на принтер или синхронизировать данные с фитнес-трекером — всё это стало возможным благодаря Bluetooth, который незаметно вошёл... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Через патенты к звёздам. Как защитить изобретение, связанное с околокосмической отраслью | Кто из нас не грустил, поняв, что детские мечты больше не актуальны. Покорение ближнего космоса нерентабельно, покорение дальнего космоса невозможно.
Но стартапы, связанные с коммерциализацией околоземной орбиты, живут и множатся. Они верят... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | The AI Copyright Hype: Legal Claims That Didn’t Hold Up | Over the past year, two dozen AI-related lawsuits and their myriad infringement claims have been winding their way through the court system. None have yet reached a jury trial. While we all anxiously await court rulings that can inform our ... |
| Aug 24, 2024 | Камала Харрис угрожает патентам, на Китай приходится половина зелёных технологий мира: дайджест новостей | Apple считает, что нужно больше колец, iRobot учит пылесосы мыться, Xiaomi успешно судится в Европе. Зарисовка из жизни патентных троллей и другие новости из сферы интеллектуальной собственности в нашем еженедельном дайджесте.
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| Nov 30, 2023 | Disharmony Over Sharing Intellectual Property and Acceptable IP Behavior Persist, CIPU Survey Finds | Findings from an independent survey of IP creators and professionals show strong agreement on the value of IP rights but not on what represents good IP behavior
The CIPU Survey findings show members of the IP community disagree on fundament... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Sam Bankman-Fried’s Closest Friends Will Testify Against Him. Here’s Who Else We’ll Hear From | FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried goes on trial this week after the crypto exchange's collapse and alleged theft of billions.
Key witnesses include former colleagues and friends, notably Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, who had deep ties to FTX ... |
| Aug 29, 2023 | Google upgrades Vertex AI to keep pace with the generative AI boom | Over half of CEOs globally are experimenting with AI to generate text, images and other forms of data, a recent joint survey by Fortune and Deloitte found. Meanwhile, a third of organizations are using generative AI “regularly” in at least ... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Our Long, National Taco Tuesday Nightmare Is Finally Over | Let me start this post with an anecdote. I’m in my 40s and have been a Chicago Cubs fan my entire life. If you know anything about baseball, then you know that means that for more than 30 years, my entire fandom was wrapped in an identify o... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | The Federal U.S. Court of Appeals denied Apple's June request to reverse a court ruling that denied the 'Apple Music' Trademark Application
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| May 10, 2023 | Google brings new generative models to Vertex AI, including Imagen | To paraphrase Andreessen Horowitz, generative AI, particularly on the text-to-art side, is eating the world. At least, investors believe so — judging by the billions of dollars they’ve poured into startups developing AI that creates text an... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Patent Strategies To Help You Get Paid For Your Ideas | Strike gold with a marketable idea? Here’s what to include in your patent application. |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Will More Women Patent Attorneys Lead To More Women Inventors? | Female inventors are more likely to patent solutions to problems that specifically or ... [+] disproportionately affect women. getty |
| Nov 20, 2022 | FTX’s ‘chief regulatory officer’ Dan Friedberg tied to online poker scandal | More On: ftx
SBF’s in hall of ‘shame’ Crypto ‘fraud’ joins list with Madoff, Holmes FTX launches strategic review, seeks court relief to pay critical vendors Elon Musk mocks Senate Democrats for calling for FTC to investigate Twitter No, vo... |
| May 31, 2022 | Can a machine be named an ‘inventor’? How AI is pushing the limits of patent law | Source: Alan Warburton/Better Images of AI, CC BY-SA.
It was the veritable search for a needle in a haystack. With drug-resistant bacteria on the rise, researchers at MIT were sifting through a database of more than 100 million molecules to... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Yes, Of Course Drug Patents Drive Up Drug Prices; Why Is This Even Up For Debate? | The idea that there is a link between the exclusivity period on patents and higher drug prices is about as noncontroversial as a view can be. It is the easy question on an ECON 101 exam on monopolies, supply and demand. Yet, somehow, this h... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | The Value Of Software Patents: Must-Have Or Move On? | Doug Ladden, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Deliveright |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Two Pharma And Biotech Cases To Watch In 2022 | "Based on the similarity of the questions presented to those that the Supreme Court declined to answer in Idenix v. Gilead, Amgen's petition has a slim chance of success. Regardless, patent owners should be wary of asserting claims tha... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | As Facebook Joins the Race to the Metaverse, Chinese Tech Companies Face Hurdles | In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on Oct. 28 that Facebook will be changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., Chinese tech giants scrambled to stake their positions in the space—despite stern warnings about the metaverse from Chi... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Everyday IP: Spaceships - Past, Present, Patents | At the start of the 1950s, space flight was little more than a theoretical possibility, explored only in science fiction, university science programs and top-secret government projects. Today, just seven decades later, the discussion has sh... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Is Big Tech bad at business? | Andrew Langer Contributor
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Google suffered a major defeat in its legal battle with Sonos in August, when a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled that Goo... |
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| May 21, 2021 | How A Camera Patent Was Used To Sue Non-Profits, Cities, And Public Schools | Patent trolls are everyone?s problem. A study from 2019 showed that 32% of patent troll lawsuits are directed at small and medium-sized businesses. We told the stories of some of those small businesses in our Saved by Alice project. |
| May 21, 2021 | How A Camera Patent Was Used To Sue Non-Profits, Cities, And Public Schools | Patent trolls are everyone’s problem. A study from 2019 showed that 32% of patent troll lawsuits are directed at small and medium-sized businesses. We told the stories of some of those small businesses in our Saved by Alice project. |
| May 14, 2021 | NFTs cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about non-fungible tokens | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210410-Veronica-Karen.mp4
You’ve probably heard about the latest new digital craze: non-fungible tokens or NFTs. These unique digital codes rely on the same blockchain techn... |
| May 3, 2021 | Hollywood Lobbyists So Afraid Of Any Public Benefit From 'Intellectual Property' That They're Trying To Block COVID Vaccine Sharing | Throughout the COVID pandemic, it’s been truly shameful to watch how patent maximalists have tried to insist that we just need more patents to deal with COVID — even though the incredible breakthroughs that brought such quick development of... |
| May 3, 2021 | Hollywood Lobbyists So Afraid Of Any Public Benefit From 'Intellectual Property' That They're Trying To Block COVID Vaccine Sharing | Throughout the COVID pandemic, it's been truly shameful to watch how patent maximalists have tried to insist that we just need more patents to deal with COVID -- even though the incredible breakthroughs that brought such quick development o... |
| Apr 26, 2021 | Cloudflare rallies the troops to fight off another so-called patent troll | Nearly four years ago, we wrote about a battle between Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based internet security and performance company, and Blackbird Technologies, a firm that quickly amassed dozens of patents, then began using them to file d... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 54Gene, COVID-19 and the prospects of Human Biotechnology in Nigeria | By Oluwabukunmi Familoye and Ikpeme Neto
Nigeria doesn’t contribute much to the global biotech industry which is estimated to be worth $833.34 billion with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of over 7.02% by 2027, but this is beginning to... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING HOLDINGS, INC.
American Axle & Manufacturing : Offers A Glimmer Of Hope On Potential 101 Reform | Amicus Briefing May Help Get SCOTUS Attention on Growing 101 Morass
In one of the more closely-watched cases involving patent eligibility, American Axle v. Neapco,
Judge Moore recently highlighted how "bitterly divided" the Federa... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Intellectual Property Rights Are Key To Fighting Covid-19 And Protecting Public Health | PHILADELPHIA, PA - MARCH 02: A member of the U.S. Armed Forces administers a dose of the Pfizer ... [+] COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA community vaccination center on March 2, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at the Pennsylvania Conv... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | How Oregon's Top Wildlife Official Got Sued Over His State's Hunting App | What if you could get a patent on a new government program? Then, you could ask for the government to pay you royalties just for running that program. Nice work, if you can get it. |
| Feb 19, 2021 | How Oregon's Top Wildlife Official Got Sued Over His State's Hunting App | What if you could get a patent on a new government program? Then, you could ask for the government to pay you royalties just for running that program. Nice work, if you can get it. |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Производитель электроники SparkFun победил патентного тролля | Сотрудник SparkFun Electronics проверяет качество плат прототипирования для GPS
В июне 2021 года компания SparkFun сообщила, что на них напал патентный тролль. Техасская фирма Altair Logix в лице некоего Джейсона Нгуена требовала в течение ... |
| Nov 26, 2020 | Future Visioning The Role Of CRISPR Gene Editing: Navigating Law And Ethics To Regenerate Health And Cure Disease | "Despite the projected growth in market applications and abundant investment capital, there is a danger that legal and ethical concerns related to genetic research could put the brakes on gene editing technologies and product programs ... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Amazon expands IP Accelerator to Europe after US SMBs register 6,000 trademarks | As we head into the biggest shopping period of the year — which this year may well have an even stronger online component than usual because of COVID-19 — Amazon has launched its latest effort to combat the sale of counterfeit goods on its ... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Oracle Is Wrong About Having Permission To Reimplement Amazon's API. But They Shouldn't Need It. | Readers of this site no doubt know that Oracle’s arguments in its lawsuit against Google, set to be argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, could spell disaster for the computer industry, by turning the act of reimplementing an API into c... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | The EU's Article 17 Is Already Changing the Digital Music Landscape | Musicians are facing a tough road and the pandemic hasn't made life any easier. But changes are afoot that could help.
A flurry of deals between music copyright owners and a grab bag of online video purveyors may be just the first step in a... |
| Sep 13, 2020 | Protests Rock Mauritius After Another Day Of Marches Against Wakashio Oil Spill Response | Massive protests rocked the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius on Saturday following a large march ... [+] against how the Wakashio oil spill response is being handled.AFP via Getty Images |
| Sep 3, 2020 | NASA Patented a Trajectory that Would Make Travel to the Moon Cheaper and Faster | CJ Robles, Tech Times 03 September 2020, 07:09 am
Despite its relative distance, NASA still finds trips to the moon difficult and highly costly. However, the space agency may have found a cheaper route to the moon for smaller missions.
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| Sep 2, 2020 | NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe. | NASA patented an efficient new trajectory for sending smaller robotic spacecraft to the moon.
The agency says it patents and licenses technologies to ensure they can achieve the "widest distribution" possible.
The new trajectory m... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Can Biomimicry Save The Planet? This Exhibition Shows The Green Side Of Tech—And Exposes The Greenwashing | When bullet trains pass through tunnels, the change in air resistance can produce a sonic boom audible a quarter mile away. The phenomenon is physically equivalent to the splash caused by an object hitting water. For a Japanese railroad eng... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Now that cannabis is essential, it’s time to roll out the tech | Editor’s note: Kevin McKernan is founder and chief science officer of Medicinal Genomics, a startup working on cannabis technology including safety testing capabilities. He was the first to sequence the cannabis genome. He is the former Tea... |
| May 27, 2020 | Is It Time To Reconsider Judges' Role As Members Of The American Law Institute? | STATUE OF BLINDFOLDED LADY JUSTICE HOLDING SCALES OF TRUTH AND FAIRNESS AND DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF ... [+] REASON AND JUSTICE (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)Getty |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Jack Daniels Gets Chewed Up In Trademark Case Over 'Bad Spaniels' Doggy Chew Toy | We've seen roughly a zillion trademark disputes and cases in the alcohol industries, but perhaps nothing quite like this. Jack Daniels, the famous liquor company, found itself in a prolonged court battle with VIP Products LLC. At issue? Wel... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Jack Daniels Gets Chewed Up In Trademark Case Over 'Bad Spaniels' Doggy Chew Toy | We’ve seen roughly a zillion trademark disputes and cases in the alcohol industries, but perhaps nothing quite like this. Jack Daniels, the famous liquor company, found itself in a prolonged court battle with VIP Products LLC. At issue? Wel... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | As Congress Explore New Awful Copyright Plans, Maximalists Look To Rewrite The History Of SOPA/PIPA | As we noted, there’s an effort underway, lead by Senator Thom Tillis’ office, to rewrite copyright laws in a manner that is even “friendlier” to Hollywood — which is kind of insane, given just how far the laws have been bent to favor Hollyw... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | As Congress Explore New Awful Copyright Plans, Maximalists Look To Rewrite The History Of SOPA/PIPA | As we noted, there's an effort underway, lead by Senator Thom Tillis' office, to rewrite copyright laws in a manner that is even "friendlier" to Hollywood -- which is kind of insane, given just how far the laws have been bent to f... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | AI in patent law: Enabler or hindrance? | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Power in AI.
Filing a patent is the clerical equivalent of pulling teeth — at least in the U.S. It first requires inventors to determine the type of intellectual propert... |
| Sep 26, 2019 | The industry that cries wolf: pharma and innovation | Drug companies play games. One of them involves product hopping — switching from one version of a drug to a trivially different version just to keep generic rivals off the market.
Congress is actively considering legislation targeting this ... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | Members of Congress Question Google CEO about YouTube’s Content-ID System | To protect copyright holders, YouTube uses an advanced piracy recognition system that flags and disables videos that are used without permission.
This system, known as Content ID, works well most of the time, but it’s not perfect. In recent... |
| Jul 23, 2019 | Patent reform is needed to protect patients’ access to lifesaving drugs | It’s no secret that the cost of prescription drugs is too high for many Americans to afford. Across the country, patients are struggling to access medicines they desperately need. In fact, we are charged, on average, significantly more than... |
| May 8, 2019 | SinoTech: U.S. Threatens Tariff Hike on Chinese Goods as Tech-Related Trade Issues Remain Unresolved | U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin concluded the 10th round of U.S.-China trade talks with Vice Premier Liu He on May 1. President Trump initially cast the negotiations as a success, but then t... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: IBM's Software Patent On Texting And Driving | In the smartphone era, “distracted driving” is a serious, and well-known, problem. Official warnings about poor driving habits are as old as the automobile itself. The New York Times published a Pulitzer-winning series on distracted driving... |
| Oct 31, 2018 | «Патентная система — это полная хрень». Кофаундер Banuba Юрий Гущин о том, как и зачем патентовать технологии и алгоритмы | Материалы рубрики Inside-AR создаются в партнёрстве с компанией Banuba Development
Anonymous Inside-AR 31 октября 2018, 08:59 «Патентная система — это полная хрень». Кофаундер Banuba Юрий Гущин о том, как и зачем патентовать технологии и ал... |
| Oct 20, 2018 | China is funding the future of American biotech | Silicon Valley is in the midst of a health craze, and it is being driven by “Eastern” medicine.
It’s been a record year for US medical investing, but investors in Beijing and Shanghai are now increasingly leading the largest deals for US li... |
| May 30, 2018 | No, Counting The Number Of Patent Infringement Lawsuits Is Not A Good Way To Quantify A Company's IP Ethics | Much has been made about Donald Trump walking back sanctions placed on ZTE, a partly state-owned Chinese cellphone manufacturer, for selling products to Iran and North Korea. (Fun fact: our law enforcement agencies still do business with te... |
| Feb 27, 2018 | Why the blockchain challenges conventional thinking about intellectual property | Logo source: The Ethereum Foundation.
Cryptocurrencies are getting a lot of attention, but finance is only one of many applications of the blockchain technology behind it.
Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionise almost everything f... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Patents will expire on these medications in 2018 | The ultimate test will be whether total spending on prescription medicines begins to track down.
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| Dec 8, 2017 | The best and worst analogies for CRISPR, ranked
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A Swiss Army knife | CRISPR-Cas9 is complicated.
That’s why scientists, entrepreneurs, and journalists like me have spent the past few years reaching for metaphors to try to make the mechanics of the revolutionary genome-editing technology easier for laypeople ... |
| Mar 13, 2017 | General Franco Is Still Dead And Michelle Lee Is Still Director Of The US Patent Office | Last month, we wrote about the truly bizarre situation in which no one in the federal government seemed willing to say who was in charge of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). You see, there had been widespread reports right before ... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Who The Hell Is Actually In Charge Of The US Patent And Trademark Office? | I recognize that many (especially regular Techdirt readers) will assume from the title above that the question is a rhetorical one in response to the latest craziness around a stupid trademark or awful patent. But, no, we mean that literall... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | Taiwan's Lite-On Semi Enters Apple's iPhone 8 Supply Chain for Wireless Charging Component
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Search | In late December we reported on a pair of new patent applications that were originally filed as provisional patents back in 2015 titled wireless charging station and wireless charging retail systems. Obviously it was a smoking gun that Appl... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | ITC protection of IP necessary for continued innovation | Matt Weinberg Contributor
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| Jan 6, 2017 | Patent Troll GPNE continues to Fight Apple in China over Infringing Patents related to Cellular technologies
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Search | In August IPWatchdog reported that the Federal Circuit affirmed Apple iPhone patent victory over GPNE. The patents at issue related to a two-way paging system, where the paging devices are capable of not only receiving messages but also sen... |
| Sep 17, 2016 | Apple lost a Patent Case based on a Nokia Patent. Will the EU now Open an Antitrust Case against Nokia as Promised?
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Search | On Thursday Acacia Research Corporation posted a press release (PDF) stating that an "Acacia Subsidiary" was awarded a verdict of willful patent infringement case against Apple. This was a case that Patently Apple reported on back... |
| Aug 18, 2016 | Your Ultimate Guide to Applying for a Patent | BC Krishna recently flew to Phoenix for a conference on payment solutions. He wasn’t just attending the event — as the founder of MineralTree, an accounts payable company that processes over $1 billion annually, he was scheduled to give a t... |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Morning Read: Get ready to hear a lot about Obamacare 2.0 | LIFE SCIENCES
The Sequenom announcement yesterday about its patent appeal is a big deal. “The stakes could not be higher for the life sciences. And this is undoubtedly a breakthrough invention that illustrates the harm from the Federal Circ... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Clash of scientific titans: CRISPR hits the courts, with money and prestige at stake | It will be a clash of biological titans that could predict a Nobel Prize and bring a massive payday to the winner.
On Wednesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office will begin an “interference proceeding” that will determine whether the Univ... |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Pharmalot, Pharmalittle: Sanofi accelerates work on Zika vaccine, Moody’s lowers outlook for pharma | And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. This is, as you know, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Besides catching up on reading and naps, we look forward to spending time with our short people, one of whom... |
| Feb 4, 2016 | A Revolving Verdict against Apple in Patent Infringement Case is Sign for why Patent Reform is desperately needed
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Search | In November 2012 Apple lost their FaceTime patent lawsuit to VirnetX who was awarded $368.2 million. Apple appealed and in September 2014 the Federal Appeals Court threw out the VirnetX award. Then VirnetX appealed again and the WSJ reports... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | What Are My Patents Worth? | Neel Chatterjee Contributor
Neel Chatterjee is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, specializing in litigating IP cases.
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| Jan 22, 2016 | Election 2016: Where the would-be leaders of the free world stand on tech | The two American political parties are in search of a new leader — the Democrats for someone who can reinvigorate a cynical and promise-weary electorate, the Republicans for one who can recast the party as one that fosters positive progress... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | 5 Essentials to Patenting Your Technology | Are you thinking of applying for a patent? Be warned: It’s probably more challenging and convoluted than you expect.
I’m no stranger to the process. Inspired by the Israelis’ water conservation techniques, I invented and patented a tamperpr... |
| Sep 13, 2015 | Patent Reform Tries Again | Lisa Patel Contributor
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| Aug 13, 2015 | Spin Bike EBay Listing Removed Because 'Spin Bike' Is Apparently A Non-Generic Trademark | Sometimes you try really hard at something and you still fail. Such is the case with Mad Dogg Athletics’ attempt to keep its “spinning” trademarks from becoming generic. We wrote about the company’s marks on stationary bike classes nearly f... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | The Mother of all Patent Trolls is behind a new Infringement Case against Apple over Memory Technology
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Search | A California company by the name Limestone Memory Systems (LMS) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The Plaintiff is in the business of licensing technology. That translates to being a non-practicing entity or a patent tr... |
| Jun 9, 2015 | Surveillance Tech Company Sues US Government For Patent Infringement | Here’s an interesting angle for attacking the surveillance state. Use patents. |
| Feb 16, 2015 | Innovation Act 2.0 gets it all wrong — will destroy startup IP value | History often has a habit of repeating itself, and after the defeat of the Innovation Act last year in the Senate, a Republican led Congress is trying to push through the same exact patent reform act again this year. Also making a repeat pe... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | October's Totally Stupid Patent Of The Month: Filming A Yoga Class | EFF recently learned about a patent that covered a method of filming a yoga class. We reviewed the patent and discovered that it was just as ridiculous as it sounded. Despite our familiarity with absurd patents and our concerns about cursor... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | CAFC: The Rogue Patent Court, Captured By The Patent Bar, Needs To Go Away | Back in 2004, when I first read the book Innovation and Its Discontents, I was convinced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, better known as CAFC, or the “patent appeals court” was a huge part of the problem with the patent s... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | The Innovation Act wins startups a battle but loses them the war | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 28, 2014 | Shameful: WIPO Threatens Blogger With Criminal Charges For Accurately Reporting On WIPO Director's Alleged Misconduct | Last fall we wrote about some surprising allegations that Francis Gurry, the director of WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization — a part of the UN), had surreptitiously taken DNA samples from employees while trying to determine ... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | IBM vs Twitter: IBM says Twitter infringes its patents | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Perhaps times are really tough at IBM. The once-d... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | IBM vs Twitter: IBM says Twitter infringes its patents | Perhaps times are really tough at IBM. The once-dominant technology company seems to be now largely a technology services company, a massive come-down from the glory days of the 1970s and 1980s when it was the Google, the Microsoft, the App... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | The USPTO Regularly Turns A Profit But Is Still Forced To Suffer Through Every Sequestration And Shutdown | The US government is now shut down, thanks to both parties’ inability to see a national budget as anything more than a partisan battleground, sniping at each others’ pet funding for weeks on end without reaching a compromise. A number of gu... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Gene Patents | Here’s a bit of good news: the Supreme Court has effectively said you can’t patent genes, though in typical Supreme Court fashion, it hedged a bit. Basically, they found that merely separating out naturally occurring DNA is not patentable, ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Is a patent troll watching your business now? | Ray Felts is North American president of crowdsource patent-research company Article One Partners; David DiGiammarino is a director with the company.
You’re a venture capitalist. You just invested in a promising startup, e-Widgets. The futu... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Is a patent troll watching your business now? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 5, 2013 | Want to Officially Bitch about the Patent System? Here's Your Chance
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Search | The USPTO sponsored events will focus initially on three specific questions about the patent process. The first topic relates to how to improve clarity of claim boundaries that define the scope of patent protection for claims that use funct... |
| Jan 3, 2013 | Congress So Dysfunctional, It Can't Even Fix The Errors It ADMITS It Made In Patent Reform | Okay, this one is incredible. As you may recall, back in September of 2011, the “America Invents Act” became law. This was a “patent reform” proposal that had been debated and changed and debated some more for about seven years before final... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Section 18 of the America Invents Act | Yesterday we hosted a conversation between David Kappos, the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, and a bunch of founders/CEOs of our portfolio companies. It was a far reaching conversation that gave me optimism that our governme... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | The Pending Kodak Patent Auction May Create Weapons Of Business Destruction | At the moment, the patent system is seriously malfunctioning. The high volume of low quality, poorly defined patents, particularly in the software and IT industries, is catalyzing the explosion in patent litigation. And lately, the problem ... |
