Patents Stories for 2020

Apple Researching Keyboards With Adaptive Displays on Each Key 225
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism 47
Vestager Seeks Patents Overhaul Amid Court Fights Over Cars 15
Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents 31
Slashback: How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar 50
A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech 49
Software Could Help Reform Policing -- If Only Police Unions Wanted It 258
Big Tech is Suing the Patent Office 27
Man Sues Patent Office For Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things 137
Apple Granted Patent That Would Allow For Socially Distant Group Selfies 37
Linux Desktop Org GNOME Foundation Settles Lawsuit With Patent Troll 29
Predictive Text Patent Troll Tries To Shake Down Wikipedia 48
People Are Open-Sourcing Their Patents and Research To Fight Coronavirus 17
In a First, China Knocks US From Top Spot in Global Patent Race 55
SoftBank-owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents 159
IBM Takes Airbnb To Court Over Historic Patents 55
Supreme Court Rejects Apple Appeal In Patent Fight With VirnetX 35
Nonprofit Argues Germany Can't Ratify the 'Unitary Patent' Because of Brexit 64
'Project Magnum': Flywheel's Alleged Plot To Steal Peloton's Technology 77
FBI is Investigating More Than 1,000 Cases of Chinese Theft of US Technology 155
Apple Patents Foldable Device With Movable Flaps To Prevent Display From Creasing 24
Apple, Broadcom Ordered To Pay $1.1 Billion To CalTech In Patent Case 64
Apple Imagines iMac Built Into Curved Sheet of Glass 59
Court Overturns Patent Ruling That Would've Cost Nintendo $10 Million 28
US Patents Hit Record 333,530 Granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (Not the FAANGs) Lead the Pack 20
Supreme Court Declines To Consider Medical Diagnostic Patents 30
Fitbit and Garmin Are Under Federal Investigation For Alleged Patent Violations 33
Sonos Sues Google For Allegedly Stealing Smart Speaker Tech 49
Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths 133
EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications in Which an AI Was Designated As the Inventor 39

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