Patents Stories for 2008

Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve 117
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor 603
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway 94
Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life 160
Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined 156
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58
Ninth Anniversary of Amazon 1-Click Injunction 68
FTC Pursues Rambus Appeal To Supreme Court 50
Apple Sued Over iPhone Browser 225
IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent 267
Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? 604
McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich 346
Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls 117
Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless 219
Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents 96
Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully 130
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent 244
FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law 97
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents 100
IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent 277
Inventor Open Sources "TV-B-Gone," and Why 340
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents 73
CueCat Patent Granted, Finally 184
Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech 192
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software 132
Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" 580
TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd 215
Buffalo Tech Gets New Trial On Wi-Fi Patent 78
Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" 294
Google Profiling Social Network Users 96
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough 292
IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents 151
Designing a Patent-Incentive Program? 221
Sept 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents 155
EU Patent Staff Go On Strike 116
Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea 256
EFF, Public Knowledge Sue Over Secret IP Pact 104
India Launches Open Source Drug Discovery 30
Tapping the Web's Collective Wisdom For Patents 88
Scribbling On Digital Photos 134
NASA Patents To Be Auctioned 224
Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers 330
Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" 350
German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show 139
Microsoft Applies For Patent On Private Browsing 181
Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent? 617
British Government Considers Tenfold Increase To Copyright Penalty 154
Strong Court Ruling Upholds the Artistic License 149
Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell 117
O'Reilly On How Copyright Got To Its Current State 177
IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent 517
Friendster Going Strong In Asia, Maybe Soon In Court 58
Software Patent Sanity on the Way? 157
Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! 183
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? 731
Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit 324
Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone 305
MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation 233
Google Seeking "FriendRank" Patent 80
Tech Giants Pooling Cash To Buy Patents 109
Prior Art In Barracuda-Trend Micro Lawsuit 110
Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor 140
Bezos Buries Patent Office in Paper 99
Red Hat Makes a GPL-Compatible Patent Deal 59
Microsoft Applies For "Digital Manners" Patent 289
US Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims 118
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development 173
Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites 481
5th Circuit May Stop Patent Troll "Forum Shopping" 76
IBM Patents Putting Handprints On Laptops 141
Nintendo Suffers $21M Patent Infringement Award 70
A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone 215
Patent Attorney On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property 226
Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention 137
VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder 85
NewYorkCountryLawyer Debates RIAA VP 291
German Firms Patent Scented Text Messaging 127
Patent Appeals System Under Constitutional Attack 46
IBM Trying To Patent Timed Code Inspection 146
80% of MS Server Protocols Are Unpatented 136
Patent Chief Decries Continued Downward Spiral of Patent Quality 179
Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement 51
Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company 572
Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent 366
Red Hat Seeks Limits on Software Patents 107
3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License 313
Alcatel Awarded $367 Million in MS Patent Case 65
Open Source Patent Donations? 185
Rambus Wins Patent Case 146
Cisco, Troll Tracker Blogger Sued For Defamation 60
Open Source Business Model Using Software Patents 117
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb 160
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated 130
Patent Reform Bill Unable To Clean Up Patent Mess 92
Multi-Channel Communication Patent Up For Sale 97
Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular 242
Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids 115
Sony Blu-ray Under Patent Infringement Probe 160
Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks 134
Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model 257
Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation 192
German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims 191
Intel Patents On-Chip Cosmic Ray Detectors 100
Neither Intellectual Nor Property 280
"Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents 101
Akamai Wins Lawsuit to Protect Obvious Patent 173
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging 205
Time To Abolish Software Patents? 259
The U.S. Patent Backlog 195
Cisco Lawyer Outs Self As "Patent Troll Tracker" 62
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn 186
Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit 263
Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards 151
IBM Wants To Patent Restaurant Waits 154
Multitouch Gesture Patents Could Prevent Standardization 210
Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks 382
Courts May Revisit Software Patents 259
Patent Troll Attacks Cable, Digital TV Standards 164
Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent 273
Intel Sued Over Core 2 Duo Patent Infringement 216
Reform Could Kill EFF "Patent Busting Project" 110
EFF Attacks Online Gaming Patent 126
Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents 157
Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages 167
AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US 357
UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims 125
Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later 407
FTC Defends Ethernet From Patent Troll 59
IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways 805
Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop 128
Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw" 81
Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures 739
Super Soaker Inventor Hopes to Double Solar Efficiency 288
Google, Yahoo, Others Sued Over Solitaire Patent 163
EFF Busts Bogus Online Testing Patent 60