IBM was the top patent recipient in 2018 for the 26th year in a row
For the 26th year in a row, IBM earned more patents than any other US company in 2018 — 9,100, to be exact, with more …
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NASA offers its patent portfolio to start-ups with no up-front payment required
While most people tend to view NASA solely in the context of space exploration, the famed government agency also has a surprising number of inventions …
How future iPhones could take a cue from… the 2009 BlackBerry Bold?
A recently published Apple patent reveals that the Cupertino-based company may have some interesting plans in store for the home button that graces all iOS …
Debate over: This is the correct way to use toilet paper
Mac or PC? Coke or Pepsi? Tupac or Biggie? Some debates are simply meant to rage on for years on end, with impassioned adherents never …
Building an arsenal: Samsung filed 3 times more smartphone patents than Apple in 2013
Samsung has apparently had enough of being bullied by Apple in the global smartphone patent war, and it has no intentions of taking the matter …
Top Samsung lawyer: Patent war is almost over and Apple will accomplish nothing
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to …
Patent litigation jackpot: A university won a $1.5 billion suit against Marvell
The smartphone industry is caught in a maelstrom of patent litigation, with Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola and other major companies entangled in a complex matrix …
These are the 5 iOS features Apple claims Samsung stole
According to Apple, Samsung has stolen a number of key iOS features and design elements, and used them when making its Galaxy smartphones and tablets. …
Is Nokia about to become a giant unstoppable patent troll?
The Korea Electronics Association has submitted a petition to Fair Trade Commission opposing Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit. Koreans are restating the theory that many …
Apple awarded nearly $1 billion in huge court win, but judge won’t ban Samsung phones
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday delivered her final judgement on the damages awarded to Apple in its huge 2012 victory over Samsung. The …
The government is finally gearing up to squash patent trolls
42 state Attorneys General on Monday sent a letter to ranking members of Congress showing support for patent reform against patent trolls. The Attorneys General letter …
Samsung and Google strike patent deal – is there hope for peace with Apple?
In a move that will hopefully start a trend that eventually kills off the patent wars that have plagued the tech industry for the past …
Apple and Samsung reportedly resume talks to end painful patent war
The patent war that recently consumed the mobile industry and the media went from a boil to a simmer in 2013, but a new trial …
Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents
Rockstar — a consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry and Sony that purchased 4,000 patents from Nortel in 2011 — is looking to sell …
South Korean court refuses to ban iPhone, iPad in Samsung patent trial
A court in Seoul, South Korea has determined that several accused iPhone and iPad models do not infringe three Samsung patents. The Associated Press on Thursday …
Reuters: EU not happy with Samsung’s patent settlement concessions
Samsung is willing to go for five years without suing competitors in Europe, to discuss licensing fees with rivals for a year, and to allow …
Google hates patents… but collects 1,800 new patents this year alone
Despite publicly belittling software patents and lobbying for patent reform that would make it difficult for companies to use such patents in patent-based lawsuits, Google is …
Patent World War: Google, Samsung, HTC sued by Apple, Microsoft, Sony
When the history of the patent wars is written, the auction of Nortel’s mobile patents may be seen as the equivalent of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s …
Another blow for HTC: Company must change chip design after losing patent fight with Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia’s radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports. …
HTC could face sales ban following loss to Nokia in patent case
This is a bit of bad news HTC could certainly have lived without. As troubles continue to mount for the struggling Taiwan-based smartphone vendor, it …
Proxy war: Bill Gates helps Motorola-suing patent troll get more patents
Bill Gates may no longer be running Microsoft but that doesn’t mean he can’t help his company out in his spare time. Ars Technica reports …
ITC bans several Samsung devices in Apple patent case
After Apple narrowly escaped a sales ban on its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 late last week, it looks like Samsung might not be so …
Nobel Prize-winning economists call for the death of software patents
Dislike of software patents is no longer confined to wild-eyed Redditors and Mark Cuban. The Washington Post points us to two Nobel Prize-winning economists who …
Fortune: When it comes to the Apple-Samsung patent war, WSJ misses the point
According to Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, The Wall Street Journal’s recent report suggesting that the smartphone patent wars have been a big bust for all …
WSJ: The patent wars have been a major bust for all smartphone vendors
While just about everyone is sick and tired of the constant barrage of patent lawsuits among smartphone vendors, it seems that tech companies themselves keep …
Apple licenses $10 million in patents, including Palm patents Steve Jobs called worthless
Apple (AAPL) has struck a new deal to license patents from Access, according to a document published on the patent holding firm’s website. The IP …
Get ready for more lawsuits: A quarter of all new patents will be mobile-related this year
While more patent suits may be the last thing the mobile industry needs, it seems that’s what it’s going to get no matter what. AllThingsD points …
