AOL Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Money
AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.
The jury has handed Google a major win in its case with Oracle over whether the search giant violated patents by using some of Oracle's code for its Android apps, The Next Web reports.
AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.
A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.
We're starting to think that Apple is nothing but a big, rich bully.
The fanboy blogs are abuzz with thinly sourced reports about what Apple will unveil at next Wednesday's new product party in San Francisco, but after reading some of Apple's recent patent filings, we have one of our own: iPad 3D.
Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten to block sales of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S. Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten blocked the sale of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S -- for a few hours.
In the increasingly fierce smartphone patent wars, HTC is an underdog, and now that Apple's successfully won a ban on several HTC phones beginning on April 12, 2012, some wonder if the South Korean company can survive another fight.
In an "exclusive" Reuters reports that Samsung makes Apple's iPhone chips in a Texas plant which is two parts surprising: first, the two companies have been spatting for months over patents and Apple is known mostly for manufacturing its iThings in Chinese factories where labor conditions don't exactly meet American conscience standards.
Team Windows just signed Samsung up for a patent licensing deal. It's also a good reason for them not to use Google's OS
The bill passed as a job creator, it doesn't really do that
But they're being sneaky about it by transferring rights to their partners
The makers of the Wavit Remote claim they patented the technology first
The Korean company is oddly optimistic about a new ban on selling Galaxy smartphones
The patent battle over tablet design is getting weirder and weirder
Apple's competitors seem like they're tired of getting picked on
Motorola's patent portfolio is four times thicker than Nortel's
A very dry topic turns into a Twitter slap-fight between Google and Microsoft
Google just bought over 1,000 patents from IBM, but they'll probably need to buy more
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