Patents Stories for 2012

Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling 90
LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea 91
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents 31
Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs 87
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
EU Charges Samsung With Abusing Vital Telecoms Patent 96
RIM Pays Off Nokia; Patent Dispute Settled 23
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
The Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents 121
Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million 117
Samsung Drops European Injunction Requests Against Apple 71
Judge Refuses Apple Request For Samsung Ban, But Denies New Trial, Too 156
China's ZTE and Huawei Join the German Patent Fray 34
iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents, Says Federal Jury 166
New EU-Wide Patent System Approved 75
Apple and Google Joining Forces On Kodak Patents Bid 97
Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
Apple Patents Wireless Charging 253
Ericsson Seeks US Import Ban On Samsung Products 102
Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures 161
Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? 291
Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung 186
Nokia Asks Court To Block RIM Products For Violating Patent Agreement 52
Microsoft Granted Patent For Augmented Reality Glasses 89
Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents 124
US Judge Orders Apple To Share HTC Deal Details With Samsung 106
Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment 211
USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' 153
Apple Patents Page Turn Animation 192
Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue 278
Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL 347
Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute 179
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel 152
Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info 98
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association 199
Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness 100
Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million 139
Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed 249
Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? 478
Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents 257
To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee 582
Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent 255
Facebook Patents Pokes-Per-Minute Limits 143
DoJ Investigating Samsung For Patent Abuse 146
Website Pitches Scientific Solutions In Search of Problems 39
US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent 213
How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy 123
Apple Patents Alternative To NFC 171
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars 135
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned 140
Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Mapping Patents 57
Tech Firms and Regulators Meet At UN About Patents 65
Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique 183
Google and Apple Spent More On Patents Than R&D Last Year 119
Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction 178
Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 196
Judge Posner Muses on Excessively Strong Patent and Copyright Laws 100
Save the Web From Software Patents 127
Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed 315
US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany 175
SceneTap Patents Using Cameras To Determine Bar Goers' Weight, Height, Gender 76
Why One Person Thinks Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable For Education 133
Intellectual Ventures Settles Lawsuits With Asian Memory Companies 30
US Patent Office Seeks Aid To Spot Bogus Patent Claims 167
Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung 316
Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232
Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones 446
Patent Troll Goes After Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Others 171
Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It 188
Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It 214
Apple Wins Again — ITC Rules They Didn't Violate Samsung Patents 149
Patent Troll Sues X-Plane 214
Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL 98
Motorola Ordered To Recall Android Phones and Tablets In Germany 190
Easy Fix For Software Patents Found In US Patent Act 172
Wozniak On the Samsung Patent Verdict 328
Eolas Sues Again: This Time, Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart 97
Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking 283
Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
Google Patents Profit-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing 294
Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent 194
Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case 97
Government Lawyer Says Patent Trolls Are a 'Concern' 91
Google Extends Patent Search To Prior Art 81
Google Patents Software To Identify Real-World Objects In Videos 150
Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List 553
Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps 126
Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents 221
Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn't Say 147
Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict 503
In Wake of Samsung Verdict, HTC Does Not Intend To Settle 286
New Zealand Draft Patent Law Rewritten After Microsoft Meeting 120
Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System 387
Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win 396
Apple v. Samsung Jurors Speak, Skipped Prior Art For "Bogging Us Down" 506
Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion 1184
Does Recent Goodwill Undo Years of Patent Trolling For Intellectual Ventures? 90
Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans 216
Jury In Apple v. Samsung Case May Have to Agree on 700 Points 111
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? 544
Apple Loses Bid To Exclude Evidence In Samsung Patent Trial 227
Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs 404
US Court Sides With Gene Patents 255
Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case 318
Amazon's Winding Course Through the Patent Jungle 13
Intellectual Ventures Tied To 1,300 Shell Companies 140
Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder 109
Judge Overturns Patent Suit, Rules RIM Did Not Infringe 13
Google Granted Cloud OS Patent 143
Nokia Feeds a Patent Troll 93
Apple Is Giving Away Its Secrets By Litigating 149
Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research 221
Microsoft Surface, Meet Apple iSurface 201
Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes 404
Bill Would Force Patent Trolls To Pay Defendants' Legal Bills 167
How Apple v. Samsung Was Explained To the Jury 330
Microsoft, IBM Want to Seal Patents Agreements With Samsung 126
Taiwan University Sues Apple Over Siri Patents 138
The Surprises In the Latest Apple V. Samsung Court Documents 257
Should Microsoft's Amdocs Deal Worry Data Center Operators? 32
Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" 251
Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search 243
Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages 377
Aussie Judge Declares Apple-Samsung Patent Battles "Ridiculous" 69
Apple Plans Hearing Aid Social Networking 70
Patent Troll Claims Minecraft Infringement 304
Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Should Be Shared 347
Patents On Genes: Round Two 85
Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad 278
Microsoft Files Patents for Virtual Game Controller 83
Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents 306
RIM Facing $147.2 Million Patent Verdict 77
Apple Tells Retailers To Stop Selling Certain Samsung Devices 308
Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent 67
Why There Are Too Many Patents In America 189
Microsoft Buys Multi-Touch Pioneer Perceptive Pixel 85
UK Judge: Galaxy Tab "Not Cool" Enough To Infringe iPad 325
UN Wades Into Patent War Mess 178
Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features 498
Yahoo and Facebook Resolve Patent Dispute 9
Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents 372
Apple Wins Patent For Head-Mounted Display Tech 116
In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent 165
HTC Defeats Apple In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Dispute 149
Nokia: Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Infringes Our Patents 183
Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports 305
Intellectual Property Rights: The Quiet Killer of Rio+20 198
Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus 217
Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US 696
US Patent Trolling Costs $29 Billion a Year 130
U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab 498
Immigrants Crucial To Innovation 463
Are Patent Wars Worth the Price Tag? 128
Biotech Report Says IP Spurs Innovation 126
Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice 146
Google To Pay $0 To Oracle In Copyright Case 250
EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project 93
Capitalists Who Fear Change 297
Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles 142
Nokia Seeks More Leverage In the Forever Mobile Patent War 70
Blocking Gun Laws With Patents 1165
The "Defensive Patent License" an Open Defensive Patent Pool 98
Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App 573
Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy 168
Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech 83
JEDEC Fiddles With DDR4 While LRDIMM Burns 67
Judge Posner To Apple & Motorola: Go Home 63
Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops 326
Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling 119
Is Australia's CSIRO a Patent Troll? 175
Google Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, Nokia 233
Amazon Patents Electronic Gifting 164
Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement 161
Patent Troll Now Armed With Thousands of Nortel Patents 220
Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents 167
Apple and Samsung Ordered Talks Fail - Trial Date Set 165
ITC Judge Calls For US Xbox Import Ban 255
Software Patents Good For Open Source? 150
Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products 83
Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices 200
HTC One X Phone Held by Customs Due to ITC Ruling 101
Federal Patents Judge Thinks Software Patents Are Good 171
Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning 234
Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' 176
Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial 475
Nokia Sues HTC, RIM and Viewsonic 146
German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban 163
Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified 186
Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents 285
Apple Patent Reveals Gift-Giving Platform For NFC-Based iDevices 110
MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' 199
Schmidt Testifies Android Did Not Use Sun's IP 239
Motorola Scores Patent Wins Over Microsoft, Apple 158
Patent Suit Targets Every Touch-based Apple Product 141
Facebook Purchases 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft 93
Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User's Mood, Intelligence 146
Fark Founder Drew Curtis Explains How Fark Beat a Patent Troll 59
Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee 285
Apple and Samsung Agree To Settlement Talks 97
Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' 103
German Court Upholds Ban On Push Email In Apple's iCloud, MobileMe 42
Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD 194
Nest Labs Calls Honeywell Lawsuit 'Worse Than Patent Troll' 137
AOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape 129
Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars 300
IBM Patent: Smart Floors Detect Heart Attacks, Intruders 80
Microsoft Buys 800 AOL Patents For $1 Billion 103
Google Actually Patenting Its April Fools' Joke 152
The Story Behind Australia's CSIRO Wi-Fi Claims 161
Why Tech Vendors Fund Patent Trolls 58
The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents 372
EU Targets Motorola In Antitrust Investigation Over Standards-Essential Patents 85
Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over 10 Patents 80
Nano-SIM Decision Delayed 117
How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent 103
Graphics Rendering Patent Suits Target Apple, Samsung, HTC, RIM, LG and Sony 159
Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents 91
Judge Orders Oracle and Google To Talk, Again 89
Software Patents Not So Abstract When the Lawsuits Hit Home 180
Facebook Buys 750 IBM Patents 46
Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature 173
Mozilla To Support H.264 249
Patent Troll Targets Samsung and RIM With Emoticon Button Patent 44
Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote 234
Yahoo's Own Lash Out At Company Over "Weaponized" Patents 89
Yahoo Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Facebook 121
Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad 374
Google Works On Kinect-Like Interface For Android 49
Apple Wins Patent For "iWallet" 176
Amazon Patents Annotating Books, Digital Works 125
Microsoft Seeks Patent For "Search By Sketch" 104
Patent Attorneys Sued For Copyright Infringement 97
How Steve Jobs Patent-Trolled Bill Gates 307
Google: Best Adaptation of a Novel To a Patent? 42
Candidates Sued By Patent Troll For Using Facebook 138
Yahoo Unfriends Facebook With Aggressive Patent Demands 59
Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany 164
MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor 249
Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million 84
European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND 219
EFF Launching 'Patent Fail' Campaign 72
Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement 193
A Defense of Process Patents 249
Texas Jury Strikes Down Man's Claim to Own the Interactive Web 151
IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits 182
Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley 228

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