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Nokia has sold off over 450 patents to Sisvel, a company infamous in tech circles for aggressive action against IP ‘infringers’ -- up to and including getting German police to raid booths at trade shows. Obviously a patent troll of the worst…
Is Intellectual Ventures (IV) really the ‘King of Patent Trolls’? If so, the company has done its best to earn the title. Objectively speaking, the research credentials of founder Nathan Myhrvold are impressive. After studying under none other…
So, I have a great idea for a new product called a “Bi-Cycle” (crazy name, I know, but bear with me). It’s got a wheel in front, a wheel in back, and a frame in the middle. You make it go by ‘pedalling’ a neat little system of…
This past July saw the largest patent auction held so far in US history. Nortel, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, had more than 6,000 patents in its arsenal. Initially, it was thought that Google would be the top bidder. But the bidding price…
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Google Inc will continue to offer support to firms using its Android system that are involved in legal disputes, its executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday, as the Internet giant looks to cement alliances in the face of…
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A German court granted a preliminary injunction against Apple Inc in a patent infringement case that banned the California company from selling some devices in Germany. But the ruling should not impact Apple's sales in Germany…
An enlightened decision by the National Institutes of Health has freed up crucial transgenic strains of mice whose use for research was being threatened by a patent troll. Alzheimer’s disease is one of the major scourges of old age, causing…
MADRID (Reuters) - A small Spanish tablet maker has won a patent infringement battle with Apple Inc in a rare victory against the U.S. company in its global defense of markets for its iPads, a court document showed on Wednesday. The Spanish ruling came as…
More than ever, patents are big business. And more than ever, there are business that are exclusively concerned with patents. The polite term is “non-manufacturing entities”, or NMEs. The less polite term is “patent trolls” -- the…
The Federal Circuit has upheld a finding of patent infringement against a farmer who planted “next generation” Roundup Ready® soybean seeds derived from commodity seed he purchased from a grain elevator. The case, Monsanto Co. v. Bowman ,…
Intellectual Ventures (IV), an invention and investment company founded by the former Chief Strategist and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, today filed a patent infringement complaint against Nikon in the U.S. District Court of…
Samsung and Apple aren’t the only adversaries on the tech scene using intellectual property law against one another. That Google and Microsoft are bitter enemies should come as a surprise to no one. Google has often called Microsoft’s patent…
