In 1980, the United States Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act--also known as the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act--which was intended to help universities and national laboratories bring technology to the ...READ»
It's deadline day for those who "didn't want it good" but "wanted it Wednesday," but before you buckle down to work, here's the early news digested:READ»
Last week, a jury smacked Apple with a $625 million bill in a lawsuit over Cover Flow. Alexander Poltorak, CEO of General Patent Corporation, explains why the damages could go down by two thirds -- or even increase.READ»
CoverFlow is how Mac users view documents, music, videos--most every type of file on its laptops and mobile devices. Now a judge says the company swiped it from Mirror Worlds LLC. READ»
In a sneaky late Friday legal filing, Microsoft hit Motorola with a lawsuit over the latter company's line of Google software-based Android smartphones, which Microsoft claims are in violation of nine patents. Could this be the first of many Android-based suits?READ»
Apple patents things all the time, but two new ideas for headphone sockets and camera flashes demonstrate exactly how much attention Apple pays to the small details of its product design.READ»
New numbers reveal just how dependent the world really is on India's cheap anti-retroviral drugs, but free trade agreements with the EU could bring catastrophic changes to developing nations.READ»
We've shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity. Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents and Paul Allen sued 11 major software companies. This behavior is an absurd abuse of the patent system. It's a massive tax on innovation.READ»
Paul Allen: billionaire, philanthropist, industrialist, Microsoft co-founder...litigator. Today Allen, who rocketed to fortune with Bill Gates, filed suit against Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook...breathe, breathe...Netflix, ...READ»
Apple's serious about not jailbreaking iPhones, and a new patent shows it's looking into remote-detection and disabling of such activity. Is this legally questionable, or is it actually a clever anti-theft system?
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One hundred years ago, Alva J. Fisher patented the electric motor-powered washing machine, so we could one day clean our clothes by turning a knob and pressing a button. But as Fisher and other inventors have learned: Creation and credit aren't always easily linked.READ»
The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Green Technology Pilot Program, launched in December to fast track green tech patent applications, has been good to many companies--Skyline Solar, for example, received a ...READ»
Microsoft filed a suit against business software distributor Salesforce.com, alleging violation of nine separate patents, mostly for back-end technologies. It's a rare show of force for the Redmond giant.READ»
We had high hopes when the U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced in December a pilot program to fast track certain green tech patent applications. So what kind of crazy, innovative technology is ...READ»
The smartphone wars have evolved from fighting for marketspace to battling over who stole whose IP in their phone designs. Now Microsoft's allying with HTC...while slightly dissing Android. Is the real target Apple?"Microsoft Corp. ...READ»
The struggling smartphone maker Palm has, according to Bloomberg sources, put itself up for sale. Potential buyers include HTC and Lenovo, and a sale to either would completely shake up the smartphone industry.READ»
Justin Long, the floppy-fringed star of the Mac v. PC ads, revealed that he heard it from a good source (er, a PC, actually) that the sweet-natured, yet passive-combative ad campaign run by Apple is coming to an end. In an interview ...READ»
It's iPad week folks, so expect a deluge of excitement about tablet PCs, e-publishing, TV shows, and whatnot: Kicking us off is a juicy rumor that Apple's soon to launch a new "iAd" mobile advertising platform, ready to smack Google ...READ»
Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently leveled by Apple. If you want to be truly disturbed at how virulent the patent ...READ»
Whoa, Apple just sued HTC for infringing on 20 patents "related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." The guns are out.
Steve Jobs' biting take on the lawsuit:
"We can sit by and watch ...READ»
