Patents Stories for 2009

USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM 274
Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube 36
Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products 419
Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word 272
New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents 123
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers 553
EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law 271
BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation 227
Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent 647
Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential 259
Apple Counter-Sues Nokia Over Patents 137
USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality 42
US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents 136
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case 73
Federal Appeals Court Tosses Spam Patent 76
Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement 241
Recipient of First Software Patent Defends Them 392
Amazon Scores Gift-Delivery Patent 91
Google Patents Displaying Patents 93
Patent Issued For Podcasting 150
Microsoft Applies For Patent On Tufte's Sparklines 175
Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits 165
Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior 657
US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents 160
Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP 186
Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words 323
Should a New Technology Change the Patent System? 159
Apple Seeks Patent On Operating System Advertising 342
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone 367
CSIRO Reinvests Patent Earnings 86
Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents 304
Should I Publish Or Patent? 266
Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million 267
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars 451
2009 Nobel Ribosome Structures — Patented 168
Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others 252
WARF and Intel Settle Patent Suit Over Core 2 Duo 79
SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust" 130
Red Hat Files Amicus Brief In Bilski Patent Case 219
Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones 371
$338M Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Overturned 238
Microsoft Awarded Patent For Peer-To-Peer DRM 151
IBM's Patent To "Capture Expert Knowledge" With Games 97
Major MMO Publishers Sued For Patent Infringement 232
$358 Million Patent Judgment Against Microsoft Overturned 76
Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms 228
Intellectual Ventures' Patent Protection Racket 152
Court Allows Microsoft To Sell Word During Appeal 106
How To Survive a Patent Challenge? 221
IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software 284
Google Patents Its Home Page 390
Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System 495
IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control 282
Cato Institute Critique of Software Patents 242
Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned 376
TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll? 335
Nintendo Working On Football Controller 123
i4i Says OpenOffice Does Not Infringe Like MS Word 146
Microsoft Files "Emergency Motion" To Ship Word 221
US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word 403
Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up 121
Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling 95
Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents 357
Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" 539
Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit 236
IBM Uses Call-Detail Records To Identify "Friends" 116
Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" 202
Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court 142
IBM Seeks Patent On Digital Witch Hunts 136
US PTO Gives Microsoft Credit For Lotus's Homework 172
Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies 281
How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? 539
Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone 168
Doctors Fight Patent On Medical Knowledge 205
Judge Invalidates Software Patent, Citing Bilski 252
Toyota Builds a Patent Thicket For Hybrid Cars 307
Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise" 465
Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books 219
Boingo Awarded a Patent For Hotspot Access 105
Obama Taps IBM Open Source Advocate For USPTO 88
EFF Busts Illegitimate Subdomain Patent 96
Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent 135
Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls 226
Google Chrome's Inclusion of FFMpeg Vs. the LGPL 245
Microsoft Files For 3 Parallel Processing Patents 137
US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 262
Supreme Court To Review "Business Method" Patents 181
The Unexpected Patents of Steve Jobs 198
IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation 281
Microsoft Gaming Patents — Where They're Going 69
Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems 394
Toshiba Sues Over DVD Patents 131
IBM Patents Changing Color of E-Mail Text 132
Dean Kamen Awarded Patent For Robot Competition Rules 110
Breast Cancer Gene Lawsuit Argues Patents Invalid 294
Cone of Silence 2.0 91
IBM "Invents" 40-Minute Meetings 161
IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret 172
Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents 245
Amazon Wins First Kindle Patent; Bigger Screen Expected Soon 50
The Sewing Machine War 136
OIN Posts Details of Microsoft's Anti-Tom Tom Patents 65
CSIRO Settles With Tech Giants Over WiFi Patent Spat 92
Biotech Company To Patent Pigs 285
The Long-Term Impact of Jacobsen v. Katzer 77
Working Toward a Patent-Agnostic Open Source License 124
Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C 332
How Do I Put an Invention Into the Public Domain? 233
CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP 125
IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring 242
Court Says USPTO Can Change Patent Rules 83
Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI 191
TomTom Sues Microsoft For Patent Infringement 166
Patent Suit Against Nintendo, Microsoft Dismissed 30
Red Hat Patenting Around Open Standards 147
Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy 597
Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing 116
IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings 179
Lawmakers Take Another Shot At Patent Reform 154
Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss 201
Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit 297
How To Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper 112
Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? 644
Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC 143
1-Click Smacked Down Again, While Reexam Languishes 72
Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor 317
Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls 166
IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor 379
Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D 580
Microsoft Agrees To License ActiveSync To Google 133
Is Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Valid? 112
Best Approach To Keeping a Virtual World Protocol Free to All? 163
LinuxDefenders.org Launches To Fight Patent Trolls 73
Bilski Patent Case Appealed To Supreme Court 175
Corporate Espionage Involving a Patent At Microsoft 241
Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface 449
Firm Seeks To Ban Mobile Companies' Imports To US 137
IBM Wins Most Patents In a Single Year For 2008 99
20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent 282
Gaming Patents From Years Past 15
Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent 249
Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? 508
Universities Patenting More Student Ideas 383