Patents Stories for 2017

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
Troll With 'Stupid Patent' Sues EFF. EFF Sues Them Back 68
The Surprising Rise of China As IP Powerhouse 150
Qualcomm Says Apple Broke Contract, Hindered Performance of Its Chipsets 92
Google Announces Android Cross-Licensing Program 'PAX' -- But Why? 33
China Court Orders Samsung Units To Pay $11.6 Million To Huawei Over Patent Case 42
IBM Technology Creates Smart Wingman For Self-Driving Cars 42
A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap 266
Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges 227
Judge: eBay Can't Be Sued Over Seller Accused of Patent Infringement 35
Apple Explores Using An iPhone, iPad To Power a Laptop 76
The Compulsive Patent Hoarding Disorder 38
Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things 243
Maryland Legislator Wants To Keep State University Patents Away From Trolls 52
Sony Patent Could Let You Wirelessly Charge Your Phone From Another Device 36
Sprint Wins $140M Verdict Against Time Warner Cable For Infringing VoIP Patents 18
Apple Is Expanding Its War With Qualcomm 21
Court Throws Out $533 Million Verdict Against Apple Over Data Storage Patent 47
IBM Gets a Patent On 'Out-of-Office' Email Messages -- In 2017 65
Alphabet's Waymo Sues Uber For Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Secrets 63
Patent Office Rules CRISPR Patents, Potentially Worth Billions, Belong To Broad Institute 70
BlackBerry Files Patent-Infringement Suit Against Nokia 53
Microsoft Now Offers Patent Troll Defense For Azure Customers 31
Patent Troll With Good Record in Past Sues Netflix, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Others Over Offline Downloads 94
Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime 90
Apple Patents a Vaporizer 101
Apple Sues Qualcomm For Roughly $1 Billion Over Royalties 54
Amazon Patent Hints at Self-Driving Car Plans 28
US Antitrust Agency Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Licensing 71
Microsoft Patent Hints At Foldable Tablet Design For Surface Phone 26
Apple/Samsung Patent Case Returns To Court To Revisit Infringement Damages 84
Apple Patent Paves Way For iPhone With Full-Face Display, HUD Windows 75
IBM Is First Company To Get 8,000 US Patents In One Year, Breaking Record 94
A Federal Judge's Decision Could End Patent Trolling 168
Original iPhone Prototype With iPod Click Wheel Surfaces Online 35
Family Sues Apple For Not Making Thing It Patented 455