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Google and Microsoft have agreed to end a long-running patent feud by dropping up to 20 legal cases in the US and Germany. The truce covers all litigation involving... Read More »
Back in July, Celgene accused Kyle Bass of abusing the inter partes review (IPR) process by short-selling pharmaceutical shares that drop when a petition is... Read More »
Earlier this week, HBO was awarded a patent for sensor technology that measures and transmits the force at which a boxing glove hits someone's face. The patent... Read More »
Earlier this month, the USPTO published nine patent applications that were filed by Bitcoin services firm Coinbase back in March. The patent applications cover... Read More »
Earlier this week, Reuters reported on its efforts to rank the world's top 100 innovative universities. Their system used 10 difference metrics, including... Read More »
Arista Networks stock continued to fall earlier this week, after dropping 5.6% and 7.8% last Thursday and Friday, respectively, on news that International Trade... Read More »
Before all the craziness of this week's WWDC, Apple had a patent application published that hints at the company's interest in fuel cell technology for... Read More »
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is expected to re-hear the Lexmark International v. Impression Products Inc case, which could have... Read More »
Magic Leap, a futuristic, under the radar technology company that Google has invested in, had 50 patent applications published in late August. Some of the patents... Read More »
Last Friday, the International Trade Commission (ITC) held that Nokia phones do not infringe patents held by InterDigital related to 3G cellular data standards... Read More »
Earlier this week, the PTAB refused to institute Volkswagen's petition for inter partes review of claims 1, 2, and 6 of US 5,714,927, a patent owned by... Read More »
Earlier this week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board decided to reject (i.e. not institute) a petition for inter partes review (IPR) filed by hedge fund manager... Read More »
Continuing this week's theme of patents for one thing turning into another thing, Boeing was granted a patent back in April for a drone that can turn into a... Read More »
Earlier this week, the USPTO Central Reexamination Division found Apple's design patent 618,677 invalid over the prior art. D'677 was one of the patents... Read More »
According to Rob O'Neil at ZDNet, some recently leaked Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) documents indicate that New Zealand may reverse its ban on software... Read More »
During the company's latest earnings call, Arista Networks CEO and GC both called out Cisco for acting like a patent troll. Vice President and General Counsel... Read More »
Over the past 18 months, IBM has secured 1,200 patents on cloud computing, including about 400 in the first half of 2015. Major drivers of IP in this area include the ... Read More »
Earlier this week, a federal appeals court handed Microsoft a victory against Google in a long-running lawsuit over patent licensing that dated back to a 2010... Read More »
Earlier this month, Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and John Castellani, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical... Read More »
Earlier this week Google launched what it is calling the Patent Starter Program to give away up to two of its non-organic (i..e those purchased by Google from a third ... Read More »