Intel shells out $1.25 billion to settle all AMD litigation (Thursday 12th of November 2009 03:38:00 PM)
Intel sure sells a lot of chips, but man -- it sure blows a lot of that profit on lawyers.
Just months after it got nailed with a $1.45 billion fine from the EU in an AMD antitrust case,
nearly two years after AMD hit ...
(more)Supreme Court To Review "Business Method" Patents (Tuesday 02nd of June 2009 01:45:01 AM)
Xzvf alerts us to big news on the patent front: the Supreme Court decided today to review the
validity "business method" patents. In particular, the Supremes will look over the "In re:
Bilsky" case, which we have discussed before. "By agreeing to weigh ...
(more)Dean Kamen Awarded Patent For Robot Competition Rules (Thursday 14th of May 2009 06:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway and the founder of the FIRST
Robotics struggle has been granted Patent 7,507,169, that describes one of the beforehand
competitions. The main invention is a ranking system that ranks teams ...
(more)Amazon Wins First Kindle Patent; Bigger Screen Expected Soon (Wednesday 06th of May 2009 10:00:02 AM)
An nameless reader writes "One day before Amazon is determined to unveil its widescreen Kindle
aimed at metropolitan readers, the e-commerce giant has been awarded its first US patent for an
e-book reader. The new patent, D591,741, is a design patent ...
(more)Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit (Monday 02nd of March 2009 09:45:01 AM)
Jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens takes a close look at Microsoft's lawsuit
against TomTom (discussed here last week), which involves an application of the Linux kernel,
and calls it basically a paper tiger. He notes: 'the technologies ...
(more)Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls (Sunday 15th of February 2009 02:30:01 PM)
Stickster writes "Back in 2007, IP notion filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell. IP
permutation is a third edition by the editors of the red white and blue heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 of Acacia Technologies. You may have heard ...
(more)Bilski Patent Case Appealed To Supreme Court (Tuesday 03rd of February 2009 08:15:02 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "The vantage point ruling of a few months ago that limited patents to
inventions which include a machine or which transform ponderable matter has been appealed up to
the Supreme Court 'On the one side of this controversy... are ...
(more)Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards (Friday 09th of January 2009 03:00:02 PM)
An nameless reader writes "SD cards with a theoretical maximum retention of 2TB are in growth
by Panasonic and the SD Association, it has been announced. The mechanical lore is called
'Secure Digital all-around Capacity', or 'SDXC', and Panasonic has ...
(more)Lawsuit whirligig: Spansion and Kodak sue Samsung, LG sued only by Kodak (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 04:50:00 AM)
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Mark it down as a coincidence if you'd like, but a flurry of
lawsuits revolving around the same companies just became public knowledge. For starters,
Eastman Kodak has decided to sue Samsung and LG, alleging entrenchment of ...
(more)Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Zordak writes "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just issued its
much-anticipated opinion in In Re Bilski [PDF]. This was a re-visit of the State Street issue
of what constitutes patentable subject matter (including whether macos and craft ...
(more)EU Patent Staff Go On Strike (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 09:00:02 PM)
H4rm0ny writes "Last Friday, staff at the indo-european accent Patent Office went on strike.
They protested outside for several hours and issued a dictum claiming that 'the organisation is
decentralising and focusing on granting as many patents as practicable ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Trichard tips a column on the article page at that most traditional of regular media, the Wall
Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this cooperative for a decade) that the US patent
system costs more than the value it delivers. The columnist ...
(more)The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
Dooling writes "In case you were cerebration of erection your own atom bomb, you may want to
weigh your intellectual real estate liability. It seems there are over 2000 patents array the
atom bomb. To avoid publishing the patents, a central tenet of the ...
(more)German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims (Monday 10th of March 2008 07:00:07 AM)
LeCaddie writes "Last week German investigators raided 51 exhibitor stands at CeBIT, the German
confidence machinery fair in Hanover, looking for goods suspected of infringing patents. Some
183 police, customs officers, and prosecutors raided the fair ...
(more)End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Linux.com is reporting that the End macos Patents project is launching several new initiatives
to help drive support for their cause. Among the new methods are a web site, a report on the
state of patents in the US, and a scholarship contest promising ...
(more)Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company? (Friday 21st of December 2007 02:45:11 PM)
Mjasay writes "According to a recent synthetic thinking
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down or taking apart; synthesis is bringing together by IEEE, Microsoft's patent anthology tops
the gang in terms of overall quality of its patents. And while ...
(more)Apple, Burst Reach Settlement (Friday 23rd of November 2007 12:00:13 PM)
An uncredited reader writes "In 2005, Microsoft settled Burst's lawsuit for infringements on
media player patents for $60 million. Many thought that Apple would be a ripe target next.
However, Apple successfully voided 14 out of 36 Burst.com's patent ...
(more)Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel Prize in Economics (Tuesday 16th of October 2007 08:30:04 PM)
Doom writes "You've perhaps already heard that the Nobel Prize for Economics was given to three
gents who were working on advances in mechanism design theory. What you may not have heard is
what one of those recipients was using that theory to study: ...
(more)Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? (Friday 12th of October 2007 04:45:02 PM)
Arathon writes "Apparently the International Trade Commission is beginning an inspection that
could lead to the banning of hard drive imports from Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba,
among others, on the grounds that they fundamentally violate patents ...
(more)Patent investigation could force hard drives off US market (Friday 12th of October 2007 01:15:00 AM)
Filed under: StorageThis one's still a ways off, but the International Trade Commission has
just launched a patent scrutiny into five manufacturers that could result in a ban on hard
drive imports if the agency finds symptom of infringement. The patents, ...
(more)NTP Sues Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile (Thursday 13th of September 2007 11:00:04 AM)
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that following in the wake of their patent suit against
fishing expedition* in Motion (RIM), NTP has filed suit against Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel,
and T-Mobile for infringing on several patents. All of the patents ...
(more)Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent (Friday 17th of August 2007 09:24:54 AM)
Down-with-the-patents writes "As this community discussed earlier, the US Patent and Trademark
Office is collaborating with the Peer-to-Patent program to stop bad patents from issuing.
Brigid Quinn, spokesperson for the USPTO, explains the motivation ...
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