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Kindle patents lay out plan for ads

News Patents, both approved and pending, show that Amazon may bundle free, ad-supported digital books with sales of physical books.

Wednesday, July 08 2009 08:06 AM

Tags: Patents, Regulations, Sales/revenue, Internet advertising, Patent, E-book, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., revenue, Internet advertising

Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement

News World's largest phone maker accuses Apple of violating intellectual property it owns governing handset wireless connectivity.

Friday, October 23 2009 09:23 AM

Tags: Patents, Smart phones, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Patent, Phone, Wireless, intellectual property, 3G, Wi-Fi

IEEE pact to foster development of patent pools

News Technical standards developer IEEE is collaborating with Via Licensing to encourage intellectual-property holders to form patent pools.

Tuesday, December 09 2008 08:19 AM

Tags: Patents, Patent Pool, RFID, IP, IEEE Standard, intellectual property, business development, News.com, blog, collaboration

Patent reveals Google's book-scanning advantage

News Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face.

Tuesday, May 05 2009 10:09 AM

Tags: Patents, Patent, Scanner, Google Inc., Optical Character Recognition, 3D, photograph, projector, Search Result, camera

Microsoft pushes for single global patent system

News Redmond wants to see a single world patent body established to "promote innovation, enrich knowledge, and encourage competition".

Thursday, September 03 2009 09:43 AM

Tags: Business applications, Patents, Patent, Innovation, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, Texas, Free Software Foundation, Patents, XML

Internet watchdog challenges VoIP patent

News The civil liberties group says it has found a prior patent and reference material to invalidate a bogus voice over Internet Protocol patent.

Thursday, October 15 2009 12:50 PM

Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Patents, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Phone, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent system, Patents, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony

Apple gets multitouch patent

News The company has been awarded a patent for multitouch touchscreen technology, versions of which are used in systems from competitors such as Palm and Microsoft.

Thursday, January 29 2009 06:29 AM

Tags: Patents, Handhelds, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Patent, patent litigation, Microsoft Windows 7, profit margin, Multitouch Functionality, intellectual property

Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents

News Linux Defenders is asking the open source community to help find examples of prior art to fend off action based on poor-quality patents.

Thursday, February 05 2009 05:56 AM

Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Patent, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, IP, Linux Defenders, Linux Defenders Effort, prior art, software, Linux Community

Microsoft patents means of limiting software

News Windows maker has been granted a patent on a technology that makes it easy to limit certain features of an operating system only to the particular edition a user has purchased.

Thursday, May 21 2009 11:50 AM

Tags: Patents, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, computer, Hardware, software, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft hit with US$200M patent verdict

News A jury rules that an XML tagging feature in recent versions of Word infringed on a patent from a Toronto-based company.

Thursday, May 21 2009 08:59 AM

Tags: Patents, Business applications, Verdict, Microsoft Corp., Toronto, Microsoft Word 2003, tagging, Microsoft Word 2007, Texas, spokesman

Microsoft slapped with US$388M patent verdict

News U.S. federal jury finds the product activation method used in some versions of Windows and Office infringes on Uniloc patent held by its Singapore subsidiary.

Thursday, April 09 2009 08:50 AM

Tags: Patents, Piracy, Verdict, Microsoft Corp., Rhode Island, Microsoft Office XP, encryption technology, Singapore, Uniloc Corp., software company

TomTom joins open source patent collective

News The GPS maker, which is being sued by Microsoft, is joining the Open Invention Network, which also counts Red Hat, IBM, and Google as members.

Tuesday, March 24 2009 10:28 AM

Tags: Patents, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, TomTom, GPS, Linux Kernel, Linux Development

Apple files 'swipe-gesture' patent application

News Technology lets touchscreen users perform certain common functions, such as inserting a space or backspacing by swiping across the key area rather than tapping a particular key.

Sunday, December 28 2008 10:32 PM

Tags: Patents, Handhelds, Apple Inc., touchscreen keyboard, Touch Screen, intellectual property, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, keyboard, News.com, Apple iPhone

Are IBM's patent woes justified?

Insight perspective Big Blue is in legal hot water in the United Kingdom relating to its bevy of patents. One U.K.-based lawyer gets to the bottom of the controversy.

Sunday, February 15 2009 07:22 PM

Tags: Patents, Competitive advantage, Mainframe, IBM Corp., Monopoly, Patent, operating system, Richard Taylor, intellectual property, software