It’s expected that the President will announce a new plan intent on minimizing the prevalence and impact of lawsuits brought forth by patent trolls. It’s obvious that he understands that the trolls “leverage and hijack somebody else’s idea and see … Read More
As part of the America Invents Act of 2011, the US is moving to a “first-inventor-to-file” system and dropping the “first-to-invent” system it used previously. It’s likely to change how and when inventors file and will (of course) open up … Read More
No one creates a proposed web standard for video and then three years later admits it infringes patents. Looks like we’re establishing a clear pattern: Google clearly (and often willfully) infringes on someone else’s IP, can’t believe that it’ll ever … Read More
Mark Cuba, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and well-known for speaking his mind, is endowing a chair with the EFF to ‘Eliminate Stupid Patents’. When asked “why?”: Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i … Read More
Ars reports on how Newegg beat a patent troll and saved the online “shopping cart” metaphor. Be sure to thank them by buying something. Using their shopping cart, of course The troll (not named here, of course) had extorted money … Read More
Despite some pending legal action against them, the bankruptcy court judge has approved Kodak’s patent sale to a group that includes both Apple and Google. The final selling price was about half of what Kodak originally thought they were worth, … Read More
If you like your irony served with Rochester flair, you’ll love that Kodak is being sued for patent infringement by Kyocera. The patents in question are related to printing and digital cameras. Kodak is pinning its recovery from bankruptcy on … Read More
Sure, the smartphone patent wars get a lot of attention, but the reality in the US is patent lawsuits are dominated by trolls, not big companies who actually things. The result is lots of things are more expensive than they … Read More
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