Patents Stories for 2015

Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award 127
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over a Trade-Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves 48
City Sued Over Smart Meter-Related Patent 60
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" 67
Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? 248
Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill 168
Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed 109
The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor 76
Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages 312
Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case 117
East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases 153
Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars 43
Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication 372
Appeals Court Bans Features From Older Samsung Phones 69
Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products 215
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' 99
The History of the Patent Troll 40
Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor 145
IBM Locking Up Lots of Cloud Computing Patents 70
Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens 59
MPEG LA Announces Call For DASH Patents 66
Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption 93
Modernizing the Copyright Office 49
HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles 184
Apple Patents Bank Account Balance Snooping Tech 133
Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts 101
French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML 75
Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial 55
Khan Academy Seeks Patents On Learning Computer Programming, Social Programming 97
Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Patent Troll 87
Oculus Founder Hit With Lawsuit 122
Court of Appeals Says Samsung's Legal Payments To Apple Should Be Reduced 66
Wireless Charging Tech Adopted By Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota Goes Open Source 75
Brainwave-Reading Patents Spike On Increase In Commercial Mind-Reading Apps 29
Patent Issued Covering Phone Notifications of Delivery Time and Invoice Quantity 60
US Senate Targets Patent Trolls 56
Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers 40
Vizio, Destroyer of Patent Trolls 104
Microsoft Increases Android Patent Licensing Reach 103
Patents Show Google Fi Was Envisioned Before the iPhone Was Released 31
After EFF Effort, Infamous "Podcasting Patent" Invalidated 58
Patent Case Could Shift Power Balance In Tech Industry 83
USPTO Demands EFF Censor Its Comments On Patentable Subject Matter 71
Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue 111
EU's Unitary Software Patent Challenged At the Belgian Constitutional Court 42
License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime 198
Another Patent Pool Forms For HEVC 68
Stanford Study Credits Lack of Non-Competes For Silicon Valley's Success 114
Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones 148
SpaceX's Challenge Against Blue Origins' Patent Fails To Take Off 61
Has the Supreme Court Made Patent Reform Legislation Unnecessary? 99
Patent Trolls On the Run But Not Vanquished Yet 56
Jury Tells Apple To Pay $532.9 Million In Patent Suit 186
Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets 128
Patent Troll Wins $15.7M From Samsung By Claiming To Own Bluetooth 126
Apple Patents Head-Mounted iPhone 55
Algorithmic Patenting 85
Japanese Nobel Laureate Blasts His Country's Treatment of Inventors 191
Apple Awarded Gesture-Control Patent 105
Toyota Opens Patents On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology 124