Patents Stories for 2018

Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers 60
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection 118
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
Software Freedom Conservancy Shares Thoughts on Microsoft Joining Open Invention Network's Patent Non-Aggression Pact 66
Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature 116
Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology 65
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech 28
80-Year-Old Inventor Gil Hyatt Says Patent Office is Waiting For Him To Die 108
Tesla Files Patent For Automatic Turn Signals 161
The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks 211
GE Engineer With Ties To China Accused of Stealing Power Plant Technology 136
IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case 33
Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court 150
IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement 64
Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns 133
Micron Chip Sales Banned In China On Patent Case 74
Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV 169
Apple, Samsung Settle After Fighting Seven Years in Court 61
Supreme Court Backs Award of Overseas Patent Damages 54
Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company 157
Uber Seeks Patent For AI That Determines Whether Passengers Are Drunk 103
Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work 164
Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds 143
Congress Is Looking To Extend Copyright Protection Term To 144 Years 293
Xiaomi Sued For Alleged Patent Infringement Ahead of Blockbuster IPO 23
Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle 34
Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla 187
Nintendo Faces Switch Patent Infringement Investigation In the US 63
Patent 'Death Squad' System Upheld by US Supreme Court 90
Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race 149
'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year 330
Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case 75
Microsoft: We'll Help Customers Create Patents But We Get a License To Use Them 52
Our Devices May Listen More Attentively, Patents Filed By Google and Amazon Suggest 50
Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard 91
BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram 87
New Apple Patent Imagines an OLED Screen As a Keyboard For MacBooks 119
'Nobody Cares Who Was First, and Nobody Cares Who Copied Who': Marco Arment on Defending Your App From Copies and Clones 169
MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired 144
'Troll' Loses Cloudflare Lawsuit, Has Weaponized Patent Invalidated 49
Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements 96
Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI 126
Bank of America Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents 45
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator's X1 Infringes Eight Patents 58