ContentGuard, a subsidiary of Bellevue-based patent holding firm Pendrell Corporation, announced today that it has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon, Apple, BlackBerry, Huawei and Google-owned Motorola Mobility.… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures (IV) announced a new patent licensing deal today with ASI Semiconductor Inc., a small Los Angeles company that manufactures RF power transistors and microwave diodes. ASI will… Read More
The ongoing legal war between Apple and Samsung continued today, with the International Trade Commission ruling that some Samsung products infringe upon a number of Apple’s patents. The commission has… Read More
While Apple’s seemingly-ubiquitous white earbuds have never been known for their sound quality, that may be about to change. According to a new patent, Apple wants to create earbuds that… Read More
In the continuing saga of patent litigation, Apple is being sued by Boston University for allegedly infringing upon a semiconductor patent filed by a professor in 1997. As reported by… Read More
Nintendo has some good lawyers. For the second time in as many months, the video game giant escaped another patent lawsuit. This time it was over the company’s Wii MotionPlus… Read More
As CEO of Intellectual Ventures, international traveler and cooking guru, Nathan Myhrvold is a busy man. So busy, in fact, that he doesn’t have time — nor thinks it’s necessary —… Read More
Intellectual Ventures has extended its streak of legal filings after filing a pair of patent infringement cases for the fourth time in as many weeks. This week’s targets are Google-owned Motorola… Read More
Google has already started to expand its StreetView system beyond roads, capturing 360-degree images of trails in North America using gigantic backpack contraptions such as the one above. But a… Read More
Intellectual Ventures today announced a patent licensing agreement with Salesforce.com —the Bellevue-based company’s first licensing customer in the area of cloud computing. The company says the deal will give Salesforce access to Intellectual Ventures’… Read More
A major chapter in the Microsoft v. Motorola patent war finally came to a close Wednesday and it’s good news for the Redmond software giant. A U.S. International Trade Commission… Read More
Tired of using a timer to snap a picture? Microsoft has a solution for you. Well, it’s not a particularly original solution, at least not at this point. But the… Read More
The United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of Nintendo, upholding a previous decision that video game giant did not infringe upon motion-tracking patents held by Ohio-based… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures on Tuesday filed its second complaint against Canon and first against Ricoh for infringing on its patents dealing with printing technology. IV approached both companies and… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures has reached its second settlement agreement in its case against manufacturers in the semiconductor industry. The company announced today that it signed a license agreement and resolved a… Read More
Amazon.com this week won a broad patent on technology that lets customers schedule product deliveries to their doorsteps or mailboxes on a recurring basis, without needing to submit a new… Read More
Mark Cuban is never one to shy away from his beliefs. Now, to show his disdain for patents, he’s created a newly-endowed chair at digital rights organization The Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read More
Airbags aren’t just for cars anymore — they may be coming soon to a cell phone near you. We first reported the story about a patent for “a system and method for… Read More
ContentGuard, a subsidiary of the Kirkland-based patent holding firm Pendrell Corp., announced a partnership today with one of Korea’s top mobile handset makers. ContentGuard and Pantech will team up to help improve… Read More
Great minds think alike? A patent application submitted by Apple last year — and made public just this morning — describes a flexible, magnetically attached cover for a tablet device.… Read More
A while back we reported about a Microsoft patent application for a system that would scan your posts on Facebook and other social media (with your permission, presumably) to deduce… Read More
Did Amazon.com just patent Christmas? Not quite, but the company has just received a patent on what has become a common method of giving presents — a system for selecting… Read More
Microsoft’s 4GB and 250GB Xbox 360 game consoles would be banned from import into the U.S. under a recommendation issued by an administrative law judge for the International Trade Commission.… Read More
You’re attending a baseball game and call Google’s 411 service for information about a nearby restaurant. The cheers of the crowd and the sounds of the announcer are picked up… Read More
Is Microsoft taking inspiration from Dwight Schrute these days? It almost seems that way based on a newly surfaced patent application from the Redmond company. The filing describes a computer… Read More
Microsoft’s royalties from its patent claims on Google Android devices are now in the range of $444 million a year, according to a Goldman Sachs estimate reported this morning by… Read More
[Updated below with Microsoft statement on the issue with the image] Microsoft this week was awarded a patent on something it calls “virtual skywriting.” It’s a great phrase, but the… Read More