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| Jan 25, 2025 | ЕС инициировал спор против Китая, Трамп затруднил работу Патентного ведомства США: дайджест новостей | У Ведомства по патентам и товарным знакам США возникли проблемы из-за новых указов Трампа, Apple разрабатывает датчик температуры, а Microsoft переосмысливает складные устройства. Рассказываем в нашем дайджесте про эти и другие новости в сф... |
| Nov 2, 2024 | Неубедительные декларации OpenAI, 12 лет неудач Beyoncé и договор Nokia с HP. Дайджест новостей | Apple Pencil эволюционирует до универсального контроллера, First Solar засудят всех за технологию, которую сами не используют, Google может называть видео словом shorts. Главное за неделю в сфере интеллектуальной собственности в нашем дайдж... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Copyright In Legal Documents Back On The Docket | Going back nearly 15 years, we had a story raising the question of whether or not legal filings were (or should be?) covered by copyright. As we noted at the time, it seems pretty clear that, under today’s somewhat absurd copyright, it is e... |
| Jan 2, 2024 | FTC Continues To Wade Into Copyright Issues In AI Without Understanding Anything | Last year we were dismayed (and somewhat annoyed) to see the FTC step way beyond its bounds and expertise by issuing a ridiculous comment to the US Copyright Office regarding questions around AI and copyright. In it, the FTC (which has no a... |
| Aug 26, 2023 | Смарт-кольцо от Apple, ИИ на защите микросхем и сжатие данных блокчейна от PayPal: дайджест главных новостей | Apple патентует смарт-кольцо, а Amida Technology Solutions, Inc. (Amida) объявила о получении патента на новое применение искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) и теории графов. При этом Samsung не смог ускорить разбирательство о нарушении патентны... |
| Aug 23, 2023 | Inventors From The Land Of Innovation Deserve Better: How The Patent Process Can Be Improved | Benjamin Chou, President, Personable. |
| Aug 15, 2023 | The Federal Circuit Court dismissed One-E-Way's Patent Infringement case against Apple over Bluetooth compliant headphones
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| May 3, 2023 | The Clash Of Generative AI And Intellectual Property Law: What It Means For Businesses | John B. Quinn is the founder of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the world's largest law firm devoted solely to business litigation. |
| Dec 26, 2021 | The perks and pitfalls of creating prolific AI inventors | 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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| Dec 26, 2021 | The perks and pitfalls of creating prolific AI inventors | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
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| Dec 20, 2021 | Judge Albright Names Lawyer For Patent Trolls As New Magistrate Judge For Waco | With the transformation of his Waco courtroom into the venue for more than 25% of all patent cases in the United States, Judge Albright can’t keep up with all the business he’s “drummed up” for his courtroom. He’s made heavy use of technica... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | People With Silly Patents Would Really Like It If It Was Harder To Cancel Them | A large group of patent holders sent a letter to Congress expressing concern that, since the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Iancu might soon be leaving, recent policies making it harder to challenge bad patents might be rev... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | How the U.S. patent office is keeping up with AI | 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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| Oct 29, 2020 | How the U.S. patent office is keeping up with AI | Technology keeps creating challenges for intellectual property law. The infamous case of the “monkey selfie” challenged the notion of not just who owns a piece of intellectual property, but what constitutes a “who” in the first place. Last ... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | US Patent Office: Supreme Court Made Us Reject More Patents, But We've Now Fixed That And Are Back To Approving Bad Patents | One of the most important Supreme Court rulings in the patent space is the so-called Alice ruling in 2014 which should have effectively spelled the end of software patents (even though the ruling doesn’t exactly say that). The ruling just s... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | US Patent Office: Supreme Court Made Us Reject More Patents, But We've Now Fixed That And Are Back To Approving Bad Patents | One of the most important Supreme Court rulings in the patent space is the so-called Alice ruling in 2014 which should have effectively spelled the end of software patents (even though the ruling doesn't exactly say that). The ruling just s... |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Stupid Patent of the Month: Alleged Cult Leader Wants to 'Improve Performance' | In April, Mexican federal police arrested Keith Raniere, taking him from the $10,000-per-week villa where he was staying and extraditing him to New York. According to the NY Daily News, Raniere, leader of self-help group NXIVM (pronounced “... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Lawyer Behind Failing Sham To Protect Sketchy Patents Sends Bogus Copyright Cease & Desist To Blogger | You may recall a story we had last fall on a really, really obnoxious and cynical scam to protect sketchy patents by “selling” the patents to Native American tribes. The details here are complex, and that original article has a longer expla... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Court Not Impressed With Sneaky Plan To Sell Patents To Native Americans To Avoid Review… But New Lawsuits Filed | A few weeks ago, we wrote about a hellishly sketchy plan by a drug company, Allergan, to avoid the process as known as “Inter Partes Review” of its weak patents. In the weeks since that post a bunch has happened, but before we catch you up,... |
| Sep 13, 2017 | The Latest Scam To Protect Sketchy Patents From Patent Office Review: Sell To Native Americans | We’ve written a bunch over the past few years about the so-called Inter Partes Review (IPR) process at the US Patent Office. In short, this is a process that was implemented in the patent reform bill back in 2010 allowing people and compani... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | Supreme Court Says Patent Trolls Can Wait A While Before Suing | In a ruling this week that will cheer up patent trolls, the Supreme Court said patent owners can lie in wait for years before suing. This will allow trolls to sit around while others independently develop and build technology. The troll can... |
| 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... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad | Well here’s an unexpected surprise. A lawsuit brought by the world’s largest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures, and handled on appeal (as are all patent cases), by the notoriously awful Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) may ... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | Why startups need a defensive IP strategy | Joe Medved Contributor
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| Apr 9, 2016 | This Is What Apple’s Newest MacBook May Look Like | Apple is always on the cutting edge of technology. Whether it's the first MP3 player holding more music than you can remember or the last iPhone that scanned your fingerprint in a moment's notice, their catalog spans the the globe when it c... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | If Venue Restrictions Are Reinstated, Where Would All The East Texas Patent Lawsuits Go? | Patent reform is a constant legislative topic, even though what passes for reform generally tends to be heavily-watered down by the time it moves out of the House or Senate. One of the most abused areas of patent litigation is venue selecti... |
| Feb 4, 2016 | Apple Hit With Huge $625M Verdict Over FaceTime, VPN Patents | February 4, 2016 3 min read This story originally appeared on Fortune Magazine
Apple just lost a patent case and, oh boy, this one is a doozy. On Wednesday, jurors in Texas federal court ordered the iPhone maker to pay nearly $335 million o... |
| Sep 13, 2015 | Patent Reform Tries Again | Lisa Patel Contributor
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| Aug 31, 2015 | From Internet Connected Drink Mixer To Any Remote Configuration On The Internet: August's Stupid Patent Of The Month | Imagine if the inventor of the Segway claimed to own “any thing that moves in response to human commands.” Or if the inventor of the telegraph applied for a patent covering any use of electric current for communication. Absurdly overbroad c... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Why Patent Trolls Love East Texas… And Why Congress Needs To Fix It | Back in 2011, This American Life toured an office building in Marshall, Texas, and found eerie hallways of empty offices that serve as the ‘headquarters’ of patent trolls. For many, that was the first introduction to the strange world of th... |
| May 4, 2015 | Patents: How the tech industry is shifting from quantity to quality | In days gone by, patenting was a numbers game. Quantity was prized, quality was brushed aside, and whoever held the most patents was deemed the winner. The size of your patent arsenal was the focus, not what the arsenal could actually do fo... |
| Apr 10, 2015 | US Patent Office Gamed The System To Make Sure Patent 9 Million Wasn't A Crazy Troll Patent | As I’m sure you were carefully anticipating, on Tuesday, April 7th, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent 9,000,000. As you of course are already aware, over the past few decades, the USPTO has been rapidly ramping up the number ... |
| Mar 7, 2015 | Patent trolls are coming for the life sciences industry. What’s next? | New legislation is being introduced, however, in the Senate to crack down on patent trolling, but it’s far from universally appreciated: Stakeholders are concerned it may actually weaken companies’ existing patent rights.
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| Feb 25, 2015 | Company with no product wins $533M verdict vs. Apple, says it’s no “patent troll” | Smartflash was briefly promoted by Britney Spears, seen here in a UK commercial for the product that was shown to the jury. The arrangement fell apart when Spears' European tour was canceled following the September 11 attacks.
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| Feb 23, 2015 | Software Patents Are Increasingly Coming Under Fire In Court | Sid Venkatesan Contributor
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| Oct 27, 2014 | US Solicitor General, Don Verrilli, Tells Supreme Court That Of Course You Can Infringe On An Invalid Patent | Nine years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Grokster case in favor of the movie studios, effectively expanding copyright law to include an “inducement” standard that is not present in the actual text of the law (in fact, Congress had ... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Magical 'Cancer Cure' Wins EFF's Stupid Patent Of The Month | Good news everyone! The Patent Office has granted a patent on a cure for cancer. |
| Jul 1, 2014 | In 'On The Internet' Patent Case, SCOTUS Gives CAFC 3rd Chance To Get It Right | You may recall the important WildTangent v. Ultramercial case that has been going on for some time. This is the case in which the courts basically need to decide if merely adding an “on the internet’ turns a basic idea into a patentable ide... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | Supreme Court Rejects Software Patents On Performing Generic Functions; Pretends That Lots Of Other Software Must Be Patentable | For a few years now we’ve been covering a key software patent case, Alice v. CLS Bank, which was another chance to show that pure software patents shouldn’t be granted. As you may recall, four years ago, the Supreme Court got to tackle the ... |
| May 5, 2014 | The Day All The Patent Trolls Rushed To File New Lawsuits | The Senate is still working on patent reform, despite the House approving it months ago. However, you can be sure that patent trolls and their lawyers have been watching the space carefully. One of the proposed amendments on the Senate side... |
| Apr 15, 2014 | USPTO Keeps Granting Patents At Record Rates: 6,000 Utility Patents Granted In A Single Week | With the latest attempt at patent reform stalling out a bit, it’s worth looking at how the last attempt to reform patents to stop abuse, 2011’s America Invents Act, has helped solve the problem of bogus patents. Oh, actually, it hasn’t. As ... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | Here's Hoping The Supreme Court Does Not Blow Another Opportunity To Fix The Software Patent Problem | Four years ago, the Supreme Court had a chance to establish once and for all whether or not software was patentable. The Bilski case got all sorts of attention as various parties lined up to explain why software patents were either evil, in... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | Supreme Court to finally decide whether people can patent software | The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether people can patent software.
The court agreed to hear the case Alice Corporation Pty. v. CLS Bank International to look into the issue of “whether claims to computer-implemented inventions – includi... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | VC, Startup Survey Addresses Whether Patent Assertions Help Or Hurt, And What To Do If You Get Hit | Contributor Contributor
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| Jul 15, 2013 | Myriad Mocks Supreme Court's Ruling On Gene Patents; Sues New Competitors Doing Breast Cancer Tests | Remember how, just a month ago, the Supreme Court had struck down gene patents in the Myriad case? If you don’t recall, Myriad claimed, effectively, to have patented the isolated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are indicators of a likelihood f... |
| 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, ... |
| May 10, 2013 | 10 Judges, 135 Pages Of Ruling About Software Patents… And Zero Clarification | Okay, we know that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has quite the reputation for mucking up rulings concerning patents over the years. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made that CAFC is a key reason that our paten... |
| May 9, 2013 | The Patent Quality Improvement Act | This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and cheaper for companies facing spurious infringement suits to defend themselves. This is... |
| May 3, 2013 | Angry Patent Lawyer Still Angry, Claims PatentlyO's Dennis Crouch Is Both A 'Dickhead' And Violated CFAA | Oh boy. Tim Cushing recently had a post here about a very angry patent lawyer, by the name of Andrew Schroeder. The story of his unbelievable rant filed with the patent office was originally highlighted over at PatentlyO, by Dennis Crouch, ... |
| May 1, 2013 | IP Attorney Responds To Patent Application Rejection By Filing Ranting, Ad Hom 'Remarks' | There’s a lot of anger directed at the US Patent Office, but it mainly originates with people frustrated by the office’s “rubber stamp” approval process that has littered the road to success with hundreds of trolling speedbumps, each one wa... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | The letter to the Patent Office you have to read | (MoneyWatch) If innovation is fascinating and has enormous implications for business, reading patent applications themselves will make most people's eyes glaze over. But every now and then something quirky happens.
Take this attorney who, a... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Patent bonanza is bad for business | (MoneyWatch) If you thought that overly broad patents were flooding the business world and often undercutting innovation and competition, you've only seen the beginning. According to a study from the University of Richmond School of Law, th... |
| Dec 26, 2012 | Mmmmm, Mmmmm Monopoly! USPTO To Hit New Record In Granting Utility Patents | Another year… another record by the USPTO in locking up all sorts of ideas with patents. Yes, that’s right, it’s only early december and it’s being reported that the USPTO will set a new record in utility patents, blasting through the old r... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas That Plague Tech Innovation | Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it “on a computer” or “over the Internet” doesn’t mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus brief filed on Friday by Google, Facebook and six other tech companies. It asks the co... |
| 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... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Of Clotheslines, Black Swans And Bad Measurements | Back in April, in writing about Union Square Ventures’ Hacking Society event, I discussed the importance of measuring the unmeasurable, in noting that we all too often seem to be evaluating information-era economics using industrial-era met... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Appeals Court Doubles Down: Genes Still Patentable | Well this is unfortunate, but not too surprising. After the Supreme Court rejected medical diagnostic patents in the Mayo case, it vacated the ruling by the Federal Circuit appeals court (CAFC) on gene patents in the Myriad Genetics case, w... |
| Aug 8, 2012 | Monsanto Awarded ONE BILLION Dollars Due To Patent Infringement For A Product That Was Never On The Market | We’ve had plenty of stories over the years of Monsanto’s incredibly aggressive stance when it comes to its “Roundup Ready” patents. The company has now been awarded $1 billion from Dupont for infringing on one of these patents. Now, here’s ... |
| Jul 10, 2012 | Hipmunk Raises Money… And Is Immediately Threatened By Patent Troll | Hipmunk, if you’re unfamiliar with it, is a wonderful travel search site, which really thought hard about how to make searching for flights and other travel info much more useful and intuitive. For me, personally, it’s almost entirely repla... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Apple pulls for Microsoft to push off Google | RGBStock.com user Copta
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY The tech industry makes for an interesting set of constantly changing bedfellows at normal times. The partner swapping has only become even more intense because of the hot and heavy patent war... |
| Jun 11, 2012 | Commerce Department's Own Study Debunks Commerce Department's Defense Of Said Study | So, back in April we wrote about a bizarre report from the US Commerce Department and the US Patent and Trademark Office, which tried to sum up the “jobs” in “IP-intensive” industries, as a measure of how important those laws were. As we no... |
| May 22, 2012 | Supreme Court Orders Reconsideration Of 'On The Internet' Software Patents | We’ve been following the “Ultramercial” case for a while. This was about a company that got a patent (7,346,545 that is basically about requiring you to watch an ad before you can watch some content). Ultramercial sued Hulu, YouTube and Wil... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Huge Ruling: Court Rejects Medical Diagnostic Patent | We’ve been covering the Prometheus Laboratories v. Mayo Labs case for a few years now, as it was a key case involving whether or not you could patent basic medial diagnostics — i.e., can you patent basic science and limit doctors from doing... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Romney, Santorum & Gingrich Sued For Patent Infringement Over Facebook Usage… Along With Millions Of FB Users | I’m kind of wondering if Hollywood-based patent attorney and patent holder Frank Weyer is trying to turn the Republican presidential field anti-patent. Weyer, via his company EVERYMD, holds US Patent 7,644,122 concerning internet groups, wh... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | How The Patent System Is Rigged To Only Expand What's Patentable | When the numbers came out showing that 2011 represented yet another record year for patents granted, it was such a non-surprise that I didn’t even bother mentioning it. The number of patents granted just keeps going up. And yes, there were ... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Clash of the titans! Infamous patent troll Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile | 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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| Feb 7, 2012 | USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use | With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they’d avoid upsetting anyone else. But it seems that some publishers have decided to go after lawyers who make patent applicati... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | UK Judges Think US Makes It Too Hard To Get Patents, Lower Patentability Bar To Show How It's Done | The US patent system famously covers “anything under the sun that is made by man,” and is generally regarded as being more “patent friendly” than other jurisdictions around the world. So it comes as something of a surprise to hear of the UK... |
| Oct 6, 2011 | Intellectual Ventures Sues Motorola Amid Acquisition by Google – an IV Investor | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Intellectual Ventures is stepping up its position in the mobile patent wars, suing Motorola Mobility in federal court today for allegedly infringing on a range of patents cove... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Does the patent reform bill really eliminate red tape? | In his speech before Congress Thursday night, President Obama said, “Today you [the Congress] passed reform that will speed up the outdated patent process, so that entrepreneurs can turn a new idea into a new business as quickly as possible... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Patent "Reform" Opens New Ways to Screw Small Tech Companies | The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act passed the Senate last night without amendments. Because it was identical to the House version, it now is a law waiting for President Obama's signature. It was supposed to be the culmination of years of t... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Patents: The New Tech Bubble | The return of tech IPOs this year, and the accompanying hefty share prices, generated of talk about a new tech bubble. But the last few months have shown the existence of a second bubble. A tech patent bubble.
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| Aug 17, 2011 | Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes' | Well, this is getting interesting. Last year, when the Supreme Court ruled very narrowly in the Bilski case, without making any explicit statement (as precedent) on overall software or business model patents, many people were frustrated. He... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Ask Ars: Is serious patent reform on the horizon? | Photograph by Tuaussi reader comments 47 with 40 posters participating
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| Jul 29, 2011 | Appeals Court Says Genes Are Patentable, Because They're 'Separate' From Your DNA | Well, this is unfortunate. We were quite happy with US district court judge Robert Sweet last year for making it clear that isolated genes are not patentable material in the Myriad Genetics case. This was one of those annoying patent situat... |
| Jul 16, 2011 | Apple Draws Blood Against HTC -- and Both Google and Android | The International Trade Commission just handed Apple (AAPL) a reason to celebrate the weekend and a defeat for both HTC and Google (GOOG) on the patent front. The ITC judge said that HTC infringed 2 out of the 10 patents that Apple asserted... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | Managing IP Magazine Recognizes That Those Who Are Critical Of Intellectual Property Are Important To The Conversation | One of the things that we’ve noticed in the various debates over intellectual property is this rush by those who believe the answer is to increase protectionism and enforcement to cut those who are critics of the current IP regime out of th... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Intellectual Ventures Sues A Slew Of Firms, Including HP And Dell, Over Patent Infringement | Intellectual Ventures is (again) suing a host of companies, including HP, Dell, Acer, Logitech, Kingston Technology, Best Buy and Walmart, over patent infringement.
The firm, which has amassed a huge trove of technology patents since it was... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Supreme Court Will Review The Patentability Of Medical Diagnostic Tests | For a few years now, we’ve been following the case of Prometheus Laboratories v. Mayo Collaborative Services, which looked into the question of whether or not certain medical diagnostic tests could be patented. Doctors are vehemently agains... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | Oracle Wants Half of Android Revenue. Can Google Afford the Tab? | How much do Oracle (ORCL) and its CEO Larry Ellison want to make? Enough to make Google (GOOG) go crying home to mother, according to paperwork that IP blogger Florian Mueller found in Oracle's copyright and patent infringement suit. If Ora... |
| May 24, 2011 | Apple loads up for battle with over 200 Freescale patents | reader comments 22 with 17 posters participating, including story author
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| May 24, 2011 | Apple bolsters patent portfolio with 200 patents from Freescale | Apple has beefed up its patent portfolio, apparently obtaining the rights to about 200 patents formerly held by Freescale Semiconductor. The patents cover a range of technologies, from Wi-Fi to cellular data and data encoding, some filed as... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Drug Firms Freaking Out Over Expiring Patents | Glyn Moody points us to a discussion about how the big pharma firms are freaking out because their key patents are expiring, and they’ve failed to develop any new patentable drugs in a while. This is leading the usual patent supporters to w... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Senate Passes a Patent Bill, but Don't Hold Your Breath for Actual Reform | After six years of talking about patents but not doing anything about them, the Senate passed major reform legislation that many hope will lead to a more efficient U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But even the 95 to 5 vote will do nothing ... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Appeals Court To Determine If Wizard Of Oz Images Can Be Retroactively Plucked Out Of The Public Domain | Patently-O has an interesting discussion about an appeal being heard in the 8th Circuit, involving a question of the boundaries of copyright and the public domain in some images from public domain movie posters for The Wizard of Oz, Gone Wi... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Microsoft Tells Congress To Reform U.S. Patent Laws | News Microsoft Tells Congress To Reform U.S. Patent Laws By Kurt MackieFebruary 02, 2011
Microsoft wants Congress to reform the U.S. patent laws by focusing on five issues that intellectual property stakeholders most want, according to the ... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Microsoft Tells Congress To Reform U.S. Patent Laws | News Microsoft Tells Congress To Reform U.S. Patent Laws By Kurt MackieFebruary 02, 2011
Microsoft wants Congress to reform the U.S. patent laws by focusing on five issues that intellectual property stakeholders most want, according to the ... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | More Patents That Have Touched Both Intellectual Ventures And Ocean Tomo Showing Up In Lawsuits | Last year, we noted that more and more patents previously held by Intellectual Ventures were showing up in lawsuits — with rumors swirling that IV still got a cut of money collected on at least some of those patents. Then, in December, IV f... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | US Patent Office Grants Massively More Patents Than Ever Before | Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has made it clear that he wanted to US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to clear out some of the backlog on patents, and it quickly became clear early last year that the way the USPTO was doing this was by s... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Court Revives Uniloc Vs. Microsoft Patent Dispute | News Court Revives Uniloc Vs. Microsoft Patent Dispute By Kurt MackieJanuary 04, 2011
A three-judge federal circuit court issued an opinion today that will like renew a legal skirmish between Uniloc and Microsoft over patented software prod... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Court Revives Uniloc Vs. Microsoft Patent Dispute | News Court Revives Uniloc Vs. Microsoft Patent Dispute By Kurt MackieJanuary 04, 2011
A three-judge federal circuit court issued an opinion today that will like renew a legal skirmish between Uniloc and Microsoft over patented software prod... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | US Patent Office Makes It Harder To Reject Patents For Obviousness | The David Kappos-run USPTO seems to just get worse and worse. Already this year, we had noted that the patent office, under his charge, had started approving patents at an unprecedented rate, after a few years of corrections. It’s become qu... |
| Oct 27, 2010 | Myriad Appeals, Says Gene Patents Should Be Allowed | This will come as no surprise to anyone, but Myriad Genetics has officially appealed the ruling that invalidated gene patents. As you may recall, earlier this year, a court noted that genes are unpatentable, noting that they “are directed t... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | We've Already Surpassed Last Year's Patent Totals | We’ve already noted early on this year that the USPTO suddenly seemed to be ramping up its patent approval rate this year at an amazingly rapid clip. And now comes the news that we’ve already passed the number of patents granted last year a... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | Forget Just Copyright, Now People Are Trademarking Music As Well | Ah, the world of intellectual property law is getting more and more ridiculous. The latest is that patent lawyer Carl Oppedahl has been allowed to trademark a 16-second musical introduction. The USPTO had initially pointed out that with a s... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | Patent Office Admits the Truth: Things Are a Disaster | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos, has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson? As a number of people who watch the orga... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Patent Office Back To Approving Pretty Much Anything | In the late ’90s and early ’00s, the US Patent Office saw a massive jump in patent grants — including tons of really, really bad patents, that have been tied up in huge, expensive lawsuits for years, wasting tons of judicial time and (more ... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | Oracle Google Suit Could Kill Android and Threaten Open Source | In a surprise that, perhaps, shouldn't be, Oracle (ORCL) has filed a patent and copyright infringement suit against Google (GOOG) for the latter's use of Java in its Android mobile operating system. Not only does this have some significant ... |