Patents Stories for 2016

Microsoft Patent Suggests HoloLens Could Keep Track of Your Small Items 62
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Amazon Patents Floating Airship Warehouse For Its Delivery Drones 94
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Fitbit Drops Lawsuit Against Jawbone 4
Apple's Beef With Nokia Gets Intense, All Withings Products Pulled From Online Store 118
IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 34
Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple 100
Supreme Court Considers When US Patent Violations Are 'Induced' Abroad 31
China Breaks Patent Application Record 28
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology 52
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback 140
Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone 31
Future iPhones Could Fold In Half 95
Yahoo Patents Smart Billboard That Would Deliver Targeted Ads To Passersby or Motorists 131
Appeals Court Reinstates Apple's $120 Million Slide-To-Unlock Patent Win Over Samsung 70
Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad 294
Apple Loses Patent Retrial To VirnetX, Owes $302.4 Million 64
Microsoft Patents A User-Monitoring AI That Improves Search Results 68
Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool 87
'Corporate Troll' Wins $3 Million Verdict Against Apple For Ring-Silencing Patent 84
Apple Patents a Paper Bag 202
'Unpatent' Begins Crowdfunding Challenges To Bad Patents 115
EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone 111
HP To Buy Samsung's Printer Business For $1.05 Billion 111
Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves 90
US Trade Judge Clears Fitbit of Stealing Jawbone's Trade Secrets 13
BlackBerry Enters New Phase Of Patent Monetization, Sues Internet Telephony Firm Avaya 59
Amazon Patents Noise-Canceling Headphones That Could Automatically Turn Off When It Detects Certain Sound Patterns 82
Samsung Fights Back, Sues China's Huawei For Patent Infringement 24
Amazon Patents Way To Turn Lampposts, Church Steeples Into Drone Perches 87
NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time 104
Apple Patents Augmented Reality Display, May Be Building A VR Headset 25
Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say 140
Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates 470
Florida Man Sues Apple For $10+ Billion, Says He Invented iPhone Before Apple 159
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
Cisco Seen As Trying To 'Slow Down Arista Anyway They Can' With Patent Lawsuits 124
You Could Be Paid To Post Snapchat Selfies With Products, Patent Filing Suggests 22
Australian 'Bitcoin Founder' Quietly Bidding For Patent Empire 45
Twitter Pays $150 Million For Magic Pony Technology 47
Google Accused of Stealing Balloon Network Tech Behind Project Loon 58
Yahoo Bidders Can't Even Agree On What They're Buying 46
Yahoo Preps Auction For 3,000 Patents Worth $1 Billion 66
Crazy Patent Troll Suing Devs For Posting Apps To Google Play 108
IBM Has Been Awarded An Average Of 24 Patents Per Day So Far In 2016 54
Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' 66
Patent Troll VirnetX Wants To Ban FaceTime and iMessage, Increase Damages Award By $190M 94
China's Huawei Sues Samsung Claiming Mobile Patent Infringement 49
Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email 134
Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash 203
NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents 19
Google-Backed Yieldify Has Acquired IP From 'World's Biggest Patent Troll' 69
Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases 85
Samsung, Nvidia End Their Patent Lawsuits 5
Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball 51
Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys 107
Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention 148
Samsung Receives Patent For Smart Contact Lenses 66
DJI Files Patent Lawsuit Against Yuneec, Marking Industry's First Legal Fight 33
Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android 343
Patent That Cost Microsoft Millions Gets Invalidated 45
Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing 124
Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Will Go On Sale This Year 84
IBM Sues Groupon Over 1990s Patents Related To Prodigy 123
Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft 103
Microsoft Patents A Modular PC With Stackable Components 183
Apple And AT&T Sued For Infringement Over iPhone Haptic Patents 71
Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple 134
Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent 73
Khan Academy Seeks Patent On Education A/B Testing 49