Amazon and luxury retailer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. filed two lawsuits Thursday in federal court in Seattle against four people and two entities that the companies allege sold knock-off Ferragamo belts… Read More
One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that the violations handicapped his current startup. Surefield founder David Eraker… Read More
F5 Networks says it has taken steps to ensure the security of the master software builds for NGINX, the popular web server technology acquired earlier this year by the Seattle-based… Read More
— Halloween is just a couple weeks away and the Pacific Science Center is celebrating the holiday with a spooky event focused on a Scottish king who was immortalized in… Read More
Dr. Harlan Robins, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies, stepped down from his role as head of the computational biology program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research… Read More
Microsoft, which has spent decades building its intellectual property war chest, says it will give ownership of patent and industrial design rights to its customers when the companies develop technology… Read More
Hypocrisy. Google managers should have expected to see that word used a lot to describe their actions had they not reversed a decision that might have forced 9to5google.com to change the… Read More
Amazon has shown interest in augmented reality for a while, but on Tuesday the company was awarded a set of patents that reveal its most ambitious visions for the technology… Read More
A jury ruled in favor of the original developer and programmer of EA’s massive Madden NFL franchise on Tuesday, awarding him would could end up being more than $11 million… Read More
Commentary: I spent much of Saturday trying to reconcile two very different approaches to justice meted out by the Obama Administration. The first is old (mid-December) news: British bank HSBC… Read More
A consortium that includes Microsoft, Apple and Sony bid a whopping $4.5 billion in cash to win more than 6,000 patents and patent applications formerly held by bankrupt telecom company… Read More
[Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.] An executive with bankrupt Nortel Networks calls its intellectual property… Read More