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Software patents hot topic at Microsoft event

News A Microsoft-hosted panel discussion on interoperability was interrupted when a member of a Linux user group raised questions on patent issues.

Wednesday, April 29 2009 07:21 PM

Tags: Open source, Patents, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Patent, Red Hat Inc., intellectual property, Microsoft Office 2007, software

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

Broadcom, Qualcomm settle patent disputes

News The two companies announce a settlement that will, among other terms, see Qualcomm fork out US$891 million to Broadcom over a period of four years.

Tuesday, April 28 2009 04:38 PM

Tags: Mobile processors, Mobile/Wireless, Patents, Integrated Circuit, Qualcomm Inc., Broadcom Corp., wireless industry, Wireless, 3G, Fair Trade Commission

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, director

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

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

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

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

US losing its lead in patents

News Innovation is coming from abroad these days, and foreign applications are coming faster and faster.

Friday, April 24 2009 10:47 AM

Tags: Patents, Competitive advantage, Patent, Asia, Manufacturing, Wireless, Boston Consulting Group Inc., South Korea, Japan, intellectual property

Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL

News Jeremy Allison, leader of the Samba project, views Microsoft's patent suit against TomTom as part of wider attempt to undermine the open source GPL software license.

Wednesday, March 11 2009 11:20 AM

Tags: Open source, Software licensing, Patents, Microsoft Corp., Patent, GPL, TomTom, software, Open-source Community, Jeremy Allison

Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?

News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?

Tuesday, January 20 2009 10:42 AM

Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea

Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat

News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.

Friday, February 27 2009 11:07 AM

Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community

Microsoft gets 10,000th patent

News After five years of pushing for more patents, Microsoft has finally broken into five digits when it comes to the number of U.S. patents issued.

Wednesday, February 11 2009 07:14 AM

Tags: Patents, Best strategies, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Patent, Online Game, Computer, Worker, Microsoft Surface

TomTom settlement leaves key questions unanswered

News Legal experts say it won't end the uncertainty over Microsoft's Linux patent claims. Open source luminary Bruce Perens warns of a chilling effect.

Tuesday, March 31 2009 10:32 AM

Tags: Patents, Open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., GPL, TomTom, Bruce Perens, attorney