This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon launches a regional employee bus service, leases a giant new office space in Bellevue, and donates $10 million to help build… Read More
Some see Nathan Myhrvold as a patent troll. He prefers to think of himself as an invention advocate. The eccentric CEO of Intellectual Ventures addressed a wide range of topics during an… Read More
Nathan Myhrvold is a polarizing figure, to say the least. From patent licensing to dinosaur growth rates to a recent controversy over the search for killer asteroids, the Intellectual Ventures founder and former… Read More
Founded in 2004, Redfin was an early pioneer in using online tools to find and buy homes. And now the company has the patents to prove it. More than a decade after… Read More
Update: IBM says it believes it will still top the official U.S. patent list for the year. See a statement from the company below. Samsung has been granted more U.S.… Read More
Author Dylan Adams is a patent attorney at the Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering and a bachelor’s in biochemistry. An excerpt from… 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
Amazon was named to Thompson Reuters’ annual list of the Top 100 Global Innovators on Thursday, marking the first time the e-commerce giant has made the list. The list is based on… Read More
Amazon is experimenting with all sorts of ways to deliver packages, using everything from drones to everyday people. But this is a new one. An Amazon patent application, made public today, describes a… Read More
An appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent battle with Google, further cementing an emerging legal precedent that may limit the amount electronics manufacturers must pay to license… Read More
Patent litigation in the U.S. is expected to hit an all-time high this year, and the cases are largely being initiated by non-practicing entities, also known as patent trolls. Patent… Read More
Samsung and IBM were each granted more than 3,000 U.S. patents between January and May, putting the companies at the top of a new list of the “most inventive” companies so far this year… Read More
Google this morning unveiled a new experimental patent acquisition program, seeking to upend the secondary market for patents by offering patent holders the ability to pitch the company on purchasing… Read More
Lawyers for Microsoft and Google will appear Wednesday morning at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a long-running dispute over patents that were originally owned by cell phone maker… Read More
Amazon has filed several patents recently that show that the e-commerce giant continues to be interested in the world of physical retail. Over the past few months, the company has experimented with a number of different… Read More
A jury in Delaware has ruled today that devices made by Motorola Mobility violated a patent having to do with multimedia messaging owned by Intellectual Ventures. It’s rough news for Motorola… Read More
Microsoft announced today that it has signed new patent cross-licensing agreements with Fuji Xerox and Melco Holdings, the parent company of Buffalo, Inc. In a blog post announcing the deals,… Read More
As recently as 2011, according to Amazon, someone at Appistry Inc. registered the genomics data technology company to use Amazon Web Services. As part of that process, the person clicked to agree to the standard AWS customer… Read More
Intellectual Ventures has licensed its portfolio of 40,000 patents and patent applications to Ford Motor Co., according to an announcement from the Bellevue, Wash.-based company this morning. The deal also gives… Read More
Intellectual Ventures won a $17 million jury verdict against Symantec in federal court in Delaware today — significantly less than the $298 million Intellectual Ventures was seeking, but a victory… Read More
Contour, the action camera company with roots in the Seattle region, has filed a patent-infringement suit against market leader GoPro — but the smaller rival wants to make it clear that this… Read More
RPX Corporation purchased nearly 4,000 patents from the Rockstar Consortium, a patent holding entity that was formed by a number of tech giants to purchase the patents in question in… Read More
Are you sitting on the couch looking at your tablet, or walking with your phone in your pocket? The answer to that question could signal how best to reach you with a… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s patent suit against AOL, Google, Yahoo and Apple has been brought back to life by a federal appeals court, which disagreed with a judge’s earlier finding that the companies… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent holding and technology company, has been through lots of ups and downs lately — laying off employees and trying to bring new products to market… Read More
After looking at what companies get sued for patent infringement, it’s easy to see why Apple plans to work with Google on patent reform. Lex Machina recently released a report… Read More
Accelerometers have become a common part of the sensor arrays on smartphones and other devices, but a group that includes Bill Gates is suggesting a different application — putting the motion-sensing… Read More
Apple and Google have reached a settlement in a series of fierce patent battles — marking a major legal truce between the companies responsible for the leading smartphone platforms. The two companies told the U.S. Court… Read More
Intellectual Ventures has been having a rough year, and the hits just keep coming. Last week, Alex Trenga, a judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of… Read More
Google is offering its Google Glass for sale to the public for the first time today, in a limited-time promotion. Depending on how many people are willing to plop down… Read More