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Google Get 200+ Patents From IBM: Gets Ready For Upcoming Lawsuit Against O
2012-01-09 06:57:00 The patent wars are heating up in every major software company around the world. A lot of companies are treading this path carefully. The only thing that makes sense is to hoard up as many patents as you can to fortify yourself against patent lawsuits and trolls. That is exactly what Google has done. They recently acquired 200 more patents from IBM which cover a wide spectrum of web services like email, server backups, database optimization, ad serving and mobile web page display. Google has gotten many patents earlier from IBM last year. There is one more important patent which deals with social networking and Google plans to use it to boost Google+. They acquired more than 2000 patents during the period from June to December last year. Google is all set to buy Motorola Mobility to boost Android and its manufacturers and keep them safe from Microsoft’s and Apple’s patent litigation, pending an Anti-trust review. They are now lending these and other patents to Android manufactu...
By: WATblog
Google Buys Itself Late Christmas Present: 200 Patents From IBM
2012-01-05 12:03:00 The year 2011 saw many legal tussles in the Electronics industry. Most of them were between Apple on one side and Google and its hardware partners for Android devices on the other. Samsung and Apple are in the middle of a long and painful legal battle in courtrooms across the world. Microsoft too sues manufacturers now and then to make them pay for patents. Google is going through a legal battle with Oracle over their Android Operating System. All of these have one thing in common: Intellectual Property aka Patents. The Patent System was meant to foster innovation while safeguarding intellectual property rights. But it is being used by certain companies to cripple innovation and fill their own coffers. Google has suffered setbacks due to their relatively small set of patents in the past. Hence they began building up. In their multi-billion dollar acquisition of Motorola, one of their major reasons was Motorola’s vast Patent collection. In June 2011, they had bought 1000 pat...
By: WATblog
Google Patents Self-Driving Car
2011-12-16 14:30:00 From BBC News - Technology: The search giant is awarded a US patent for a system that tells driverless cars when to take control of the wheel. Read the whole article
The Flyover Effect ? Trademarks, Patents and The Rebel Alliance
2011-09-19 19:19:00 If you have never heard my voice, or if you have and you are dying to hear me wax philosophic on the wonders of intellectual property law, check out the latest episode of The Flyover Effect – Trademarks, Patents and The Rebel Alliance. Tags: best lawyer
By: Blawg IT
Monsanto patents the melon.
2011-07-21 20:10:00 Monsanto has been awarded a European patent on conventionally bred melons (EP 1 962 578). This type of Melon had been bred for increased resistance to certain plant viruses. Indian melons which display greater disease resistance were simply crossed with other varieties in order to transfer this characteristic. The process and outcome is ...
By: News for Greens
Amazon Patents Method for Converting Bad Gifts to Good Gifts
2010-12-27 18:50:00 In a move that must have Emily Post spinning in her grave, Amazon has patented a “System and Method For Converting Gifts.” The System allows you to convert that piano scarf Aunt Mildred bought you into a Blu-ray box set of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, before you even see the scarf. The patent also ...
By: Blawg IT
Apple And Motorola Battle It Out Over Patents
2010-11-02 10:20:00 With competition in the mobile market on an all time high, technologies and services are bound to overlap, resulting in copyright and patent issues. Earlier, these disputes were settled without much hullabaloo but times have changed. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, without losing out on any front. Sometime last month, Motorola sued Apple with claims that the wide range of technology that Apple used in its products – the iPod, iTouch, iPhone and even some Macs were infringing on Motorola’s patents. Not to be bogged down by such claims, Apple countered by suing Motorola in turn for six of its own patents a few days ago. The squabble has entered into phase two with Apple firing two lawsuits claiming that Motorola’s Android phones – Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1 and Charm infringe a total of six multitouch and OS patents. Those who want to have a look at the patents, here is the link. Apple had come to the limelight ...
By: WATblog
Pension Funds in Hot Water, A Commodity to Short, Gene Patents, Capital Con
2010-04-08 18:26:00 State and autoworker pensions horrifically underfunded? how you might end up paying for both. Sugar prices get too sweet? Chris Mayer bets on a ?reversion to the mean.? Patrick Cox on a gaming-changing court settlement for biotech investors. Plus, a closer look at the new capital controls in America.
How Patents May Stifle Innovation!
2010-03-17 06:28:00 Thomas Friedman once famously said – The world is flat! While I did not completely agree with him when I read it, I am beginning to see some truth to it. At least as far as Innovation is concerned. Yes, Patents have been around for a while now. So have Patent Infringement Lawsuits. Most of them wrangle on for years in the confines of a court, without ever breaking into mainstream media unless there is a monumental judgement involved. This ‘flattening’ of the Innovation world has made the Big Boys realise that they are more vulnerable than ever. Patents are being used less to protect what you have and more to prevent the competition from catching up. Thanks to that, the technology industry is now sitting on a Patent Minefield, new entrants, old timers alike have to tread to very carefully to avoid stepping over these imaginary patent lines. A task, which is seemingly impossible to do. In November 2009, I came across an Apple Patent that would certainly have serious implication...
By: WATblog
?Were You There??? Revisited And Rebutted For Naysayers
2009-11-20 19:59:00 A Courtesy Update For Our Readers… olks — this is just a quick and interesting update to our guest column about the interesting inventor Pete Samaruck entitled “Another GTL Guest Column: Were You There When The Lights Went Out?? ? By Charlotte Wilson“, originally posted on... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms ? 3
2009-08-04 13:00:00 Part 3: In my first post in this series, I talked about the regular utility patent?s four categories of patentable subject matter in Section 101 of the Patent Act: processes, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter. I also discussed two statutes that Congress enacted to provide patent (or patent-like) protection to plants: the Plant Patent ...
China Patents Work And I Have The Proof.
2009-08-02 20:06:00 Axiom: Chinese businesses do not waste money. Axiom: Filing patents in China is expensive. Axiom: Chinese businesses are filing patents in China like crazy. Conclusion: Filing patents must be worth the money; in other words, they have value. According to Intellectual Asset Management Blog (h/t IP Dragon), "for the first time invention patent grants made to domestic [Chinese] entities are outstripping those made to foreign concerns. According to SIPO statistics, in the first six months of 2009 Chinese applicants received 18,634 patents, while applicants from overseas took 17,737; that's 51.2% and 48.8% respectively. In 2008, Chinese applicants were awarded 49.7% of the 93,706 invention patents granted by SIPO." Chinese and China patent filings are having and will continue to have worldwide implications: Clearly, all of this has major implications for granting authorities, in-house patent departments and private practice firms across the world. What a great time it is to be ...
By: China Law Blog
Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms-2
2009-07-31 13:00:00 Part 2: In my first post in this series, I talked about the regular utility patent?s four categories of patentable subject matter in Section 101 of the Patent Act: processes, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter. I also discussed two statutes that Congress enacted to provide patent (or patent-like) protection to plants: the Plant Patent ...
Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms
2009-07-29 13:00:00 Part 1: Monsanto sells a glyphosate-based herbicide called ?Roundup.? Monsanto also sells seeds for crops – such as soy, corn, sugar beet, cotton, and others – that are genetically engineered to resist Roundup. Monsanto calls these seeds ?Roundup Ready.? Patent law was critical to Monsanto?s business strategy, on both the herbicide and crop seed sides ...
Talking Patents With dsm Buzz
2009-07-08 16:37:00 If you have an interest in determining whether those crank calls you have have been receiving are coming from me, now is your chance to do a voice check. Sherry Borzo of Des Moines’ own dsm Buzz has interviewed for her podcast. In it, we discuss all things patent and cyberlaw. Although I am certainly ...
By: Blawg IT
Top 5 Myths About Patents
2009-05-28 17:35:00 Over seventeen years of drafting patents I have run across a lot of misconceptions about patents. Unfortunately, I sometimes hear them from would-be clients, crushed to learn their misunderstanding has cost them the chance to patent their inventions. Patent law is complex and constantly changing. Staying on top of the latest information is a full ...
By: Blawg IT
Patents: "The Good and the Bad"
2009-05-08 09:32:00 Patents: fixable, or the next weapons of financial destruction? The big issue of the evening came from a discussion of the treatment of so-called "non-practicing entities" or NPEs?organizations that hold patents and assert them, but do not conduct a business that applies the patents. By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor -- EDN, 5/7/2009 A panel sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley last night brought together three significant players in the US patent-law debate to discuss the future of the patent office, the current reform legislation in Congress, and the future of intellectual property. The discussion ranged from pessimism over short-term fixes to a dire warning about the arrival of the investment banks in the patent business. Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of invention-factory Rearden, David Simon, chief patent counsel at Intel, and Ronald Yin, partner at law practice DLA Piper, discussed the issues under the questioning of Wall Street Journal Deputy Bureau Chief Don C...
Easter Patents
2009-04-09 23:54:00 For some reason, people cannot get enough Easter patents. Last year’s post on Easter Patents brought ten times my normal traffic. For that, I would like to extend my gratitude. Not that I would ever want to meet up with this apparently rather odd and eclectic Easter patent crowd in person, but I do enjoy ...
By: Blawg IT
Canadian Patents - A Better Way?
2009-03-30 15:40:00 I have been working on some concepts for years now only to find the Canadian Patent process is very expensive. I now understand why Canadians look outside the country to have their ideas become real. Is there any suggestions on the route I should take.
Family Dog Cloned, Thanks To Dolly Patents
2009-01-29 14:53:00 From Slashdot: BioArts International announced today that they have delivered the world's first commercially cloned dog, a 10-week old Labrador named Lancey, to Florida residents Edgar and Nina Otto. According to the press release issued by the company, 'BioArts International is a
Ten Things You Did Not Know About Patents
2009-01-06 22:32:00 There are very few things people have heard more, but know less, about than patents. Nearly every infomercial touts its product as “patented” or “patent pending,” but what does that mean? Are patents easy to get? If you change 25 percent of the invention, can you avoid infringing a patent? When is a patent “pending”? Misinformation ...
By: Blawg IT
Ten Things You Did Not Know About Patents
2009-01-06 22:32:00 There are very few things people have heard more, but know less, about than patents. Nearly every infomercial touts its product as “patented” or “patent pending,” but what does that mean? Are patents easy to get? If you change 25 percent of the invention, can you avoid infringing a patent? When is a patent “pending”? Misinformation ...
By: Blawg IT
China Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents. It's All The Same To Me, I&apo
2008-12-10 13:43:00 In its post, "Why I Should Stop Reading IP Case Summaries in the News," China Hearsay does a great job attacking a Xinhua news story on what appears to have been a legal victory by Apple Computer in a trademark lawsuit. China Hearsay is justifiably ticked off about the misstatements in and extreme vagueness (can something be extremely vague?) of the article and in attacking the article, actually (inadvertently) does a really good job setting out a couple of key China trademark law basics. First, one does not just "register a trademark" in China. One must register one's trademark in a particular category or categories. This matters. Western companies frequently complain of someone having infringed on "their trademark" in China, when in fact there has been no infringement because the Western company actually never registered a trademark in the particular category in which the allegedly infringing product belongs. Second, unlike patents, China trademarks do not necessarily expir...
By: China Law Blog
More on Bilski and Business Method Patents
2008-10-31 23:17:00 Since yesterday’s post on the future of business method patents, bloggers of all shapes and sizes have been waxing philosophic on the impact of the recent ruling in In re Bilski. Some of the more cogent commentaries from intellectual property lawyers can be found at IP Law & Business, PatentlyO, and The Patent Baristas. For a ...
By: Blawg IT
More on Bilski and Business Method Patents
2008-10-31 22:17:00 Since yesterday’s post on the future of business method patents, bloggers of all shapes and sizes have been waxing philosophic on the impact of the recent ruling in In re Bilski. Some of the more cogent commentaries from intellectual property lawyers can be found at IP Law & Business, PatentlyO, and The Patent Baristas. For a ...
By: Blawg IT
Federal Circuit Rejects Business Method Patents
2008-10-30 19:18:00 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) is pretty much the “supreme court” of patents. While the real Supreme Court has granted certiori to a handful of cases appealed from the CAFC, that is certainly the exception, rather than the rule. Earlier today, the CAFC handed down its most momentous decision since it ...
By: Blawg IT
Protect Your Software with Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
2008-06-06 17:47:00 You've spent thousands of hours developing a new software program. Now how do you ensure that your competitors don't copy your program and steal your market? The sad truth is you can't, as Apple discovered when Microsoft "borrowed" its graphical user interface to build Windows and corner the PC operating system market. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Protect Your Software with Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks", url: "http://www.devtopics.com/prote-ct-your-software-with-patents-c-opyrights-and-trademarks/" });
Infosys bags 2 US Patents
2008-06-03 23:54:00 Infosys Technologies has informed the stock exchanges that it has badded 2 patents from US Patent and Trademark Office. The patents were for holography and mobile communications related applications. This is a major boost to teh software major and was reflected on the company’s share prices today. As soon as the announcement hit the market, the ...
Infosys Patents | Infosys awarded Patents
2008-06-03 14:17:00 Infosys awarded 2 patents by United States Patent and Trademark office addthis_url =... Click on Headline to read full Article..
Apple patents solar cells
2008-05-30 10:57:00 Apple has filed a new patent ? known as Solar cells on portable devices. Clearly, they hope to integrate them into small devices, such as iPods and iPhones. Judging by what the application says, Apple wants to cover the device in question in a layer of solar cells. Should this come to fruition, it would ...
Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus Protection
2008-05-27 15:36:00 Slashdot It!Microsoft has just snared a U.S. patent for proactive virus protection, which is how security software helps secure your PC when it encounters shape-shifting malware not already in its antivirus definition file. What I want to know is, what does this mean for all the other vendors -- like McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, and Trend Micro -- that have been selling proactive protection software for years? Do they now have to pay Microsoft protection; I mean, royalties?Here's the quick low-down on the new Microsoft patent. Issued on May 20, patent number 7,376,970 is entitled "System and method for proactive computer virus protection." The inventor is Adrian Marinescu, who was at one point (maybe he still is) a lead developer on the Windows kernel team, heavily involved in the heap manager. He previously worked on Windows NT's object manager, which is a key software traffic-cop managing the interaction among all the executive kernel subsystems. All this is by way of saying tha...
By: Tech Talk
Software Patents in Europe and MicrosoftÂ’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
2008-05-22 16:48:00 Despite recession, the finding seems to suggest that the pace of obligatorily-disclosed amounts now trivially exceeds $10 million for Microsoft alone (annually).
By: Server Tales
Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus Protection
2008-05-22 10:56:00 Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus ProtectionMicrosoft has just snared a U.S. patent for proactive virus protection, which is how security software helps secure your PC when it encounters shape-shifting malware not already in its antivirus defin...
May 8th - This Day in History - Robert Thompson Patents the Rubber Tire. Wh
2008-05-08 06:00:00 May 8th - This day in history was a busy one. We’ll hear about tires, dog shows and our favorite 70’s family sitcom, Little House on the Prairie. But first, I want to remind you that this weekend is Mother’s Day! If you still haven’t found her that special gift, then I’ve got the best ...
By: Fabu Daily
Apple granted three new iPhone input patents
2008-04-26 18:06:00 The US Patent and Trademark Office published several of Apple’s patent approvals today, all of which relate to different aspects of the iPhone’s functionality. The first patent that has been approved deals with organization of the iPhone’s interface, mainly to reduce the clutter of adding too many visual elements to a document. The patent indicates the use of nested interface elements, for example, clicking a button to bring up a menu with operations that the user may perform. read it here appletell
By: iPhonetunes
Apple Patents iPod Goggles
2008-04-23 07:15:00 People have been gossiping about the possibility of ?iPod Shades? from Apple since Steve Jobs toyed with the idea of using head-mounted video displays in a 2005 interview. Well, it looks like the company may have taken the first step towards making this into a reality when a recently filed patent for a ?Head Mounted Display System? went public late last week. The ?goggles? include a an integrated fiber optic line which acts as a lanyard that can be tightened to fit your head.
By: Attuworld
Samsung skips the touchscreen, patents gesture-based phone interface
2008-04-20 00:00:00 Filed under: Cellphones Samsung's been getting pretty creative with cell cameras lately -- the Instinct lets you pan around web pages by tracking movement with the camera, for example -- but the company's latest patent application, for a gesture-based phone interface, might be a little less practical. The idea is ...
Samsung skips the touchscreen, patents gesture-based phone interface
2008-04-20 00:00:00 Samsung's been getting pretty creative with cell cameras lately -- the Instinct lets you pan around web pages by tracking movement with the camera, for example -- but the company's latest patent application, for a gesture-based phone interface, might be a little less practical. The idea is to use ...
seed patents, GM crops, industrial food - the power to own and control life
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Brief History of Software Patents
2008-04-17 16:56:00 A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor for a fixed period of time in exchange for disclosure of an invention. The patent enables the inventor to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention. (wiki) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Brief History of Software Patents", url: "http://www.devtopics.com/brief--history-of-software-patents/"- });
Apple patents laser based head mounted display
2008-04-17 16:00:00 The biggest problem watching movies on your iPhone? Of course, it?s the display size. The quality of video processing quality on the iPhone is pretty good already, and, thank?s to the Moore?s law, will get much better in time, including the capabilities to view full HD movies in time. Storage? Give a few years and ...
By: koolgizmo
Seagate Claims SSD Maker Violates Patents
2008-04-16 02:25:00 Apple’s MacBook Air laptop features a solid-state drive (SSD). So does HP’s new Mini-Note. While still a tiny part of the market, SSDs are starting to worry traditional hard-drive manufacturers. A lot. In a sign of the showdown between old and new storage technologies, Seagate, the market leader in traditional hard drives, filed a lawsuit in ...
Apple Patents: Widget Organization, Virtual Keyboards, Episodic Games
2008-04-04 16:27:00 A few more patent applications filed by Apple have been published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, three of which were iPhone/iPod touch-related. Among them are a feature for rearranging a homescreen, a configuration for unique virtual keyboards that display for different tasks, such as writing Email, and most interestingly a patent for "episodic" gaming.The first patent, Graphical User Interface for Configuring and Displaying Widgets, covers the organization of widgets on the iPhone and iPod touch.Their second patent, Soft Keyboard Display for a Portable Multifunction Device, covers "computer-implemented method for displaying soft keyboards at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display", or the iPhone's virtual keyboard. Lastly, the third patent, Treatment of Episodic Games, pertains to titles that make up only part of a whole story, such as Half-Life 2. The patent is for a method of detecting what episodes of a game a user has and telling them what ...
Information You Should Know About Patents
2008-04-01 07:00:00 There are many misconceptions about what a patent is and is not. Many believe that patents can “protect an idea” in the sense of preventing people from acting on a concept you thought of. Others believe that mailing yourself notes and drawings is a “poor man’s patent” that provides sufficient protection. In fact, patents are ...
By: Resources zone
Software patents underlie a novel open source business model (video)
2008-03-30 01:36:00 "Software patents are evil." Ask almost any free or open source software advocate, and they'll you that software patents kill creativity and keep computer science from advancing as rapidly as it would if everyone shared their basic work with everyone else, unencumbered by patents or other restrictions. But computer science professor Fred Popowich of Simon Fraser University says this is not necessarily true. So does attorney Larry Rosen, who spent many years as legal counsel for the Open Source Initiative starting (literally) before it had a name.
By: Server Tales
Software patents underlie a novel open source business model (video)
2008-03-30 01:36:00 "Software patents are evil." Ask almost any free or open source software advocate, and they'll you that software patents kill creativity and keep computer science from advancing as rapidly as it would if everyone shared their basic work with everyone else, unencumbered by patents or other restrictions. But computer science professor Fred Popowich of Simon Fraser University says this is not necessarily true. So does attorney Larry Rosen, who spent many years as legal counsel for the Open Source Initiative starting (literally) before it had a name.
By: Server Tales
Purchasing Patents for Sale
2008-03-29 06:00:00 Just as a growing number of people are starting to sell their patents, there is a rise in the number of people looking to buy them. However, it is wise to do some homework and number-crunching before spending big bucks to own a patent. It is also altogether imprudent to buy patents or ideas from ...
By: Resources zone
Pfizers Head of Patents Faces Allegations of Child Pornography
2008-03-28 18:22:00 The AP is reporting that the feds have charged Pfizers global patent director, Alan Hesketh, with receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography. Hesketh, 61, stands accused of posing as a 28-year-old woman and, while chatting online, trading
By: mini wisdom
Apple patents LCD Display
2008-03-27 19:23:00 Now a days Apple is everywhere, first it came up with the SDK for iPhone for which developers all over the world were eagerly waiting. Then yesterday I read that a Gartner Analyst who tracks Apple has said that Apple has given orders of 10 million 3G iPhone, another of Apple’s eagerly awaited iPhone variant. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Apple patents LCD Display", url: "http://www.fonearena.com/blog/-2008/03/27/apple-patents-lcd-di-splay.html" });
Call for clarity on code patents
2008-03-21 09:43:00 Call for clarity on code patentsA legal row between the UK government and Symbian has revived the issue of whether computer programs can be patented.http://news.bbc.co.uk/-go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/730737-5.stm |
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