Want to attach a 100mm lens to an iPhone? A new Apple patent suggests that official detachable lenses may be coming soon. The Cupertino-based company has won a patent that… Read More
Zillow may be facing a tougher legal challenge against its longtime rival Trulia after a patent review board ruled this week that most of the claims made by the Seattle… Read More
Federal Judge Lucy Koh has awarded almost $930 million in damages to Apple, after deciding that a number of Samsung’s devices infringed on Apple’s patents. However, Koh denied Apple’s request… Read More
IBM continues to be the patent king. For the 21st straight year, the Armonk, New York-based company filed more patents — 6,809 — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office than… Read More
After Nintendo successfully defended itself from a patent troll’s lawsuit, the Redmond-based company is now getting paid in…more patents. IA Labs brought a suit against Nintendo in 2010, claiming that… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, under increasing pressure to be more transparent about its patent holdings, this morning released a searchable list of more than 33,000 of its patents — about 82 percent… Read More
Finding a job often isn’t about what you know, it’s about who you know. Google is taking that concept to the extreme — and applying some computer science to it.… Read More
A consortium that includes Microsoft and Apple filed lawsuits today against Google, Samsung, HTC and other companies using some of the former Nortel Networks patents that were acquired by the… Read More
A new report out from Reuters says that Intellectual Ventures — the Bellevue-based patent holding firm led by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold — is on the prowl to raise… Read More
The Onion, September 2006: “Sequestered in a private booth at a Pasadena-area Cheesecake Factory for nearly 25 minutes, a party of eight California Institute Of Technology physicists emerged exhausted but… Read More
Updated with Google comment. A federal jury in Seattle ruled in Microsoft’s favor this afternoon in a patent dispute with Motorola Solutions — finding unanimously that Motorola breached its contractual… Read More
Updated with details of Motorola’s closing argument. After a trial lasting more than a week, lawyers for Microsoft and Motorola are making their closing arguments in U.S. District Court in… Read More
Microsoft has already given parents an extra element of control with the “Kid’s Corner” feature in Windows Phone 8 — an isolated section of the device, set up and controlled… Read More
A lawyer for Motorola urged a jury in Seattle this afternoon to consider the company’s October 2010 patent licensing offer to Microsoft in the context of the broader discussions and… Read More
A jury of seven women and one man will hear opening statements in federal court in Seattle this afternoon in a high-profile patent suit between Microsoft and Motorola —a key… Read More
A long-running patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola will come to a head in federal court in Seattle this week as Microsoft tries to convince a jury that the Google-owned… Read More
Are you ready to add another of the human senses to your reading experience? Google has been working on a way to use “trigger points” in electronic books to… Read More
What will the White House do? That’s the question that many big companies will be asking themselves after the Obama administration’s surprise move this weekend to overturn a U.S. International… Read More
While the world waits for Apple’s third quarter earnings results, the company has just been awarded two new patents that may hold some insight into where the company is headed.… Read More
Microsoft has sued the United States Customs and Border Patrol for failing to enforce an import restriction on Motorola Mobility phones that the International Trade Commission ruled were infringing on… Read More
The clear acrylic trophy is shaped like a puzzle piece, with the Amazon logo and the inscription, “In recognition of your innovative thinking and contribution to our technology. Congratulations on… 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
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that it is impossible to patent a naturally-occurring gene. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, said that a gene was a “product of… Read More
Continuing their campaign of suing banks, Intellectual Ventures has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Bank of America and BBVA Compass Bank. This is the third time in as many weeks… Read More
It’s been a huge week for patents — starting with This American Life’s follow-up on Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures and followed on Tuesday with President Barack Obama announcing plans to… Read More
For the second time in the past week, Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures has utilized its arsenal of patents in legal actions against financial services firms. This time, the patent holding firm… Read More
Radio listeners around the country were given an inside look at the dark underbelly of the U.S. patent system this week in a fascinating and thorough report on This American… Read More
Patents are one of the central topics at the spring meeting of the Licensing Executives Society of the U.S.A. and Canada, taking place in downtown Seattle this week. Many of… Read More
Lots of people labor over their avatars for video games and other online services, using manual tools to make their digital likenesses as flattering as possible. Why not just leave… Read More
Microsoft this morning published a searchable online list of its patent holdings — more than 40,000 patents held by the company and its subsidiaries in the U.S. and internationally —… Read More