Patents Stories for 2014

De-escalating the Android Patent War 63
Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing 190
Google Strikes Deal With Verizon To Reduce Patent Troll Suits 20
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine 266
Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India 40
Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement 96
Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market 93
Group Tries To Open Source Seeds 100
Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans 485
Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine 164
How Lobby Groups Rejected the Canadian Government's Plan To Combat Patent Trolls 57
Despite Patent Settlement, Apple Pulls Bose Merchandise From Its Stores 328
Trans-Pacific Partnership May Endanger World Health, Newly Leaked Chapter Shows 132
Ask Slashdot: Handling Patented IP In a Job Interview? 224
Interviews: Ask Florian Mueller About Software Patents and Copyrights 187
Open Invention Network Grows Despite Patent Troll Death Knell 16
Smart Gun Inspires Smart Mouse Authentification System 60
Alice Is Killing Trolls But Patent Lawyers Will Strike Back 92
US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners 124
Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court 118
Intellectual Ventures Sheds At Least Part of Its "Patent Troll" Reputation 75
SpaceX Challenges Blue Origin Patents Over Sea-Landing Rocket Tech 75
Judge Lucy Koh Rejects Apple's Quest For Anti-Samsung Injunction 30
Google Wins $1.3 Million From Patent Troll 35
How Patent Trolls Destroy Innovation 97
Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll 63
Patents That Kill 240
Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office 327
Microsoft Files Legal Action Against Samsung Over Android Patent Dispute 83
Bose Sues New Apple Acquisition Beats Over Patent Violations 162
Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 194
Appeals Court Affirms Old Polaroid Patent Invalid 45
Google, Dropbox, and Others Forge Patent "Arms Control Pact" 73
A Brief History of Patenting the Wheel: What Goes Around Comes Around 36
Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View 468
White House May Name Patent Reform Opponent As New Head of Patent Office 211
Intuit Beats SSL Patent Troll That Defeated Newegg 59
China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications 86
Red Hat Assistant General Counsel Analyses Supreme Court's Patent Ruling 43
The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand Software 263
US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent 220
Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents 140
BMW, Mazda Keen To Meet With Tesla About Charging Technology 137
Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public 211
Why United States Patent Reform Has Stalled 139
Musk Will Open Up Tesla Supercharger Patents To Spur Development 230
Patent Troll Ordered To Pay For the Costs of Fighting a Bad Patent 191
Study: Royalty Charges Almost On Par With Component Costs For Smartphones 131
After Knocked-Down Damages Claim, Apple Again Seeks to Ban Some Samsung Phones 114
Questionable Patents From MakerBot 56
Who Helped Kill Patent Troll Reform In the Senate 157
Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War 46
Ten States Pass Anti-Patent-Troll Laws, With More To Come 64
Court Orders Marvell To Pay Carnegie Mellon $1.5B For Patent Infringement 85
USPTO Approves Amazon Patent For Taking Pictures 152
Jury Finds Apple and Samsung Infringed Each Other's Patents 49
Supreme Court Makes It Easier To Get Lawyers Fees In Patent Cases 51
Bill Gates Patents Detecting, Responding To "Glassholes" 140
China Approves Microsoft-Nokia Deal, Gets Patent Concessions In Return 26
Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? 408
Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements 130
Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses 160
Judge Overrules Samsung Objection To Jury Instructional Video 232
Supreme Court Skeptical of Computer-Based Patents 192
Owner of Nortel Patents Sues Cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement 83
Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll 126
Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents 406
Samsung Galaxy Glass Patent Plans To Turn Fingers Into a Keyboard 63
Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval 258
Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents 105
White House Takes Steps Against Patent Trolls 97
Open Source — the Last Patent Defense? 52
Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India 255
The Public Patent Foundation Fights for Freedom From Bad Patents (Video) 36
Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? 213
US Supreme Court: Patent Holders Must Prove Infringment 143
Google Faces Off Against Intellectual Ventures In Landmark Patent Trial 53
Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order 243
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft & More Settle Lawsuits With Boston University 129
Notorious Patent Troll Sues Federal Trade Commission 102
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Newegg Patent Case 204
Nintendo Defeats and Assumes Control of 'Patent Troll's' Portfolio After Victory 87
Google's Comical New Social Networking Patent 45