Patents Stories

Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says 38
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up To IPO 33
America's Last Top Models 17
EU Lawmakers Back Draft Rules on Patents for Connected Cars, Telecom Equipment 3
Apple Sues To Win Trademarks For Augmented-Reality Software 28
US Patent Office Confirms AI Can't Hold Patents 44
Cloudflare Defeats Another Patent Troll With Crowd-Sourced Prior-Art Army 23
Google Faces Multibillion-Dollar US Patent Trial Over AI Tech 27
Scientists Still Shoot For the Moon With Patent-Free Covid Drug 11
AI Cannot Be Patent 'Inventor,' UK Supreme Court Rules in Landmark Case 29
Apple To Pause Selling New Versions of Its Watch After Losing Patent Dispute 36
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Lenovo Seeks Halt of Asus Laptop Sales Over Alleged Patent Infringement 20
Huawei and Tencent Spearhead China's Hold on Cybersecurity Patents 28
Apple Watch Faces Potential Import Ban In the US 24
China Widens Lead Over US in AI Patents After Beijing Tech Drive 33
Cloudera Hit With $240 Million Patent Verdict Over Cloud-Storage Technology 17
Federal Judge Throws Out $32.5 Million Win For Sonos Against Google; Google Starts Reintroducing Software Features It had Removed 60
Microsoft Patents Sensor-Filled, AI-Assisted Backpack 14
AI-Generated Art Cannot Receive Copyrights, US Court Says 57
Nintendo Is Trying To Patent Some Really Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics 32
Mastercard Submits Fresh Trademark Application For Crypto Tech 18
US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents 110
Smart TV Industry Rocked By Alleged Patent Conspiracy From Chipmaker 27
Sonos Wins $32.5 Million Patent Infringement Victory Over Google 23
Google: AI Should Not Be Considered an Inventor 22
The Rapid Rise of Generative AI Threatens To Upend US Patent System 60
Google Wins Appeal of $20 Million US Patent Verdict Over Chrome Technology 25
Google Must Face Trial Over Sonos Patents, California Judge Says 6
UK Argues AI Is No More of an Inventor Than Your Cat 43
Dell and Partners Smash Patent Troll WSOU in Court 37
Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves, Drive Away If You Miss Payments 180
Apple Patent Describes a Way To Read Back iMessages In the Sender's Voice 39
Creator of Linux Virtual Assistant Blames 'Patent Troll' For Project's Death 13
'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards 46
A Drug Company Made $114 Billion Gaming America's Patent System 92
Apple Watch Patent Infringement Confirmed, As Masimo Seeks Import Ban 36
Intel Settles To Escape $4 Billion Patent Suit with VLSI 11
23 Years Ago, Amazon Gave Barnes & Noble a 1-Click Patent Lawsuit For Xmas 54
Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent 28
After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival 15
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network 4
Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN 6
Apple Loses Second Bid To Challenge Qualcomm Patents At US Supreme Court 22
Meta Ordered To Pay $175 Million For Copying Green Beret Veteran's App 36
Coinbase Sued For Patent Infringement Over Crypto Transfer Technology 17
Intel, Which Coined The Term 'Patent Troll', Makes Deal With Patent Troll To 'Monetize' Unused Patents 31
Moderna Sues Pfizer Over Covid-19 Vaccine Patents 68
Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology 17
Inventors Must Be Human, Federal Circuit Rules in Blow To AI 78
Apple's Patent History Reveals a Major Push Into Autos 28
IPhone Sales Banned In Colombia 42
UK Decides AI Still Cannot Patent Inventions 20
Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Bid To Continue Fighting Over Two Qualcomm Patents 16
The Ohio State University Officially Trademarks the Word 'THE' 113
RED Sues Nikon For Infringing On Its Video Compression Patents 76
GNOME Patent Troll Gets Stripped of Patent Rights 40
Russia Says Its Businesses Can Steal Patents From Anyone In 'Unfriendly' Countries 256
Open Source Zone Grinds Away At Patent Trolls 30
BlackBerry's 5G Phone Is Officially Dead 19
Alarm Raised After Microsoft Wins Data-Encoding Patent 46
BlackBerry Sells Mobile and Messaging Patents For $600 Million 55
Sony Is Working On 3D Scanner That Can Put Real-World Items Into Video Games 38
Google Found To Have Violated Sonos Patents, Blocking Import of Google Devices 100
Japan To Pay Companies To Keep Sensitive Patents Secret 28
Clearview AI On Track To Win US Patent For Facial Recognition Technology 17
Peloton Sues Rivals Over Alleged Patent Infringement Related To On-demand Classes 32
Apple Patent Fights Lookie-Loos With Glass-Activated Screen Blur 24
US Government Owes Over $100 Million For TSA's Patent Infringement 70
Sony Patent Lets Viewers Vote and Pay To Boot Players From Games 104
Engineer Devises 'UFO Patents' For US Navy 78
UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor 54
Unity Patents 'Methods and Apparatuses To Improve the Performance of a Video Game Engine Using An Entity Component System' 46
Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a US Patent, Judge Rules 48
New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation To Make Quantum Computing More Efficient 48
Programmer Apologizes For Sending Letters Claiming Patent on Age-Old Web Standard 56
Apple Wins Patent For Dual-Display MacBook With Virtual Keyboard, Wireless Charging Capabilities 69
Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers 60
Australian Court Rules An AI Can Be Considered An Inventor On Patent Filings 75
Amazon Wins Trial Over Technology To Order Groceries With Alexa 20
Apple Patents a Way To Deliver 3D Content Without 3D Glasses 36
Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System To Stop Pirates 95
Ford Patents Tech That Could Scan Billboards and Show Associated In-Car Ads 160
Apple Wins New Trial in $506 Million Patent-Damages Award 10
Inspur, China's Largest Cloud Hardware Vendor, Joins Open-Source Patent Consortium 7
IBM's Patent Income Slips as Companies Resist 'Godfather' Deals 114
Intel Told To Pay $2.18 Billion After Losing Texas Patent Trial 101
US Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will 'Engineer the Fabric of Reality' 113
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users' Speech To Recommend Music 39
Microsoft Patent Shows Plans To Revive Dead Loved Ones As Chatbots 93
Apple Fails To Overturn VirnetX Patent Verdict, Could Owe Over $1.1 Billion 55
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
Court Rules Apple Doesn't Owe Patent Troll $503 Million 29
How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll -- and Won 58
'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use 113
US Supreme Court Snubs University of Wisconsin Appeal in Patent Fight With Apple 15
GNOME Foundation Is Being Sued Because of Shotwell Photo Manager 44
Apple Considers Using Iconic Logo As a Notification Light, Patent App Suggests 42
Apple Patents Watch Band That Could ID You From Your Wrist Skin 23
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents? 35
An AI System Should Be Recognized As the Inventor of Two Ideas In Patents Filed On Its Behalf, Academics Say 93
University of California Sues Five Major Retailers Over Edison-Style LED Bulbs 238
Apple In Advanced Talks To Buy Intel's Smartphone-Modem Chip Business 64
Intel Launches Blockbuster Auction For Its Mobile Portfolio 30
Amazon Patents 'Surveillance As a Service' Tech For Its Delivery Drones 47
Senator Rubio Targets Huawei Over Patents 178
Huawei Asks Verizon To Pay Over $1 Billion For Over 230 Patents 184
Retired Georgia Tech Professor Is Suing Uber, Lyft For Patent Infringement 109
Amazon Patent Reveals Plans To Allow Alexa To Listen, Record Users At All Times 171
US Judge Says Qualcomm Violated Antitrust Law 51
PepsiCo Sues Four Indian Farmers For Using Its Patented Lay's Potatoes 223
Amazon Is Working On Hot Air Balloon Drone That Approaches Homes Silently 94
Bank of America Tech Chief Is Skeptical of Blockchain Even Though The Company Has the Most Patents For It 82
Grandson of Legendary John Deere Inventor Calls Out Company On Right To Repair 67
Apple Dealt Legal Blow as Jury Awards Qualcomm $31 Million 47
Samsung Patents Wireless TV With No Power Cable 55
Folding iPhone Patent Application Shows How the Company Could Prevent Damage In Cold Weather 51
BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement 49
Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas 54
Qualcomm Urges US Regulators To Reverse Course, Ban Some iPhones 36
Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case 141
US Patent Operations May Shut Down In Second Week of February 81
Software Patents Poised To Make a Comeback Under New Patent Office Rules 77
IBM Tops 2018 Patent List as AI and Quantum Computing Gain Prominence 26
Apple Receives a New Patent For 'Smart Fabric' 52
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers 60
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection 118
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
Software Freedom Conservancy Shares Thoughts on Microsoft Joining Open Invention Network's Patent Non-Aggression Pact 66
Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature 116
Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology 65
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech 28
80-Year-Old Inventor Gil Hyatt Says Patent Office is Waiting For Him To Die 108
Tesla Files Patent For Automatic Turn Signals 161
The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks 211
GE Engineer With Ties To China Accused of Stealing Power Plant Technology 136
IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case 33
Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court 150
IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement 64
Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns 133
Micron Chip Sales Banned In China On Patent Case 74
Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV 169
Apple, Samsung Settle After Fighting Seven Years in Court 61
Supreme Court Backs Award of Overseas Patent Damages 54
Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company 157
Uber Seeks Patent For AI That Determines Whether Passengers Are Drunk 103
Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work 164
Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds 143
Congress Is Looking To Extend Copyright Protection Term To 144 Years 293
Xiaomi Sued For Alleged Patent Infringement Ahead of Blockbuster IPO 23
Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle 34
Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla 187
Nintendo Faces Switch Patent Infringement Investigation In the US 63
Patent 'Death Squad' System Upheld by US Supreme Court 90
Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race 149
'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year 330
Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case 75
Microsoft: We'll Help Customers Create Patents But We Get a License To Use Them 52
Our Devices May Listen More Attentively, Patents Filed By Google and Amazon Suggest 50
Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard 91
BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram 87
New Apple Patent Imagines an OLED Screen As a Keyboard For MacBooks 119
'Nobody Cares Who Was First, and Nobody Cares Who Copied Who': Marco Arment on Defending Your App From Copies and Clones 169
MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired 144
'Troll' Loses Cloudflare Lawsuit, Has Weaponized Patent Invalidated 49
Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements 96
Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI 126
Bank of America Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents 45
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator's X1 Infringes Eight Patents 58
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System 52
Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That? 127
EFF Beats 'Stupid' Patent Troll In Court 70
Israeli Company Sues Apple Over Dual-Lens Cameras In iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus 56
Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle 72
Apple Is Designing iPhones, iPads That Would Drop Qualcomm Components 131
Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker 133
Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed 92
Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology 43
Apple To Appeal Five-Year-Long Patent Battle After $439.7 Million Loss 69
Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Escalating Apple Legal Fight 36
US Congress Investigates Patent 'Gifts' That Evade Inter Partes Review 55
Waymo Clarifies It Actually Wants $1.8 Billion From Uber 23
Cloudflare Pays First $7,500 Bounties In War Against Patent Troll 35
Facebook Relents, Switches React, Flow, Immuable.js and Jest To MIT License 50
Red Hat Pledges Patent Protection For 99 Percent of FOSS-ware 65
WordPress Ditches ReactJS Over Facebook's Patent Clause 72
Google Accused of Trying To Patent Public Domain Technology 101
Jury Finds Nintendo Wii Infringes Dallas Inventor's Patent, Awards $10 Million 113
Kaspersky Lab Forces 'Patent Troll' To Pay Cash To End Case 108
IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo Is Trump's Pick As USPTO Chief 67
General Mills Loses Bid To Trademark Yellow Color On Cheerios Box 91
E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent 141
Motorola Patents a Display That Can Heal Its Own Cracked Screen With Heat 41
We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues 86
Toyota Patents Cloaking Device To Make Car Pillars Appear Transparent 105
'Podcasting Patent' Is Totally Dead, Appeals Court Rules 30
HP Patents 'Reminder Messages' 68
Apple Paid Nokia $2 Billion To Escape Fight Over Old Patents 35
Apple Ordered To Pay $506 Million In Damages For Processor Patent Infringement 119
Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS 43
Amazon Web Services Drops Controversial Patent Clause From Standard User Agreement 16
Space Data Lawsuit Has Alphabet's Project Loon In Jeopardy 33
Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking 465
Intel: Steer Clear Of Our Patents 87
Facebook Wants To Spy On People Using Their Phone's Camera and Analyze Facial Emotions 104
Nokia Uses Lawsuit To Make Apple Its Friend 8
The Supreme Court Is Cracking Down on Patent Trolls 112
Apple Receives Patents For Bezel-Free Display, Touch ID Button Embedded In Screen 176
MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free 415
Cloudflare Declares War On a Patent Troll With a $50,000 Bounty 54
Walmart Wants To Put Sensors On Everything So It Can Automatically Order You Stuff 106
Apple Patent Hints At Wirelessly Charging Your iPhone Via Wi-Fi Routers 144
Qualcomm Collected Partial iPhone Royalties Despite Legal Battle With Apple 14

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