Collaborate Disseminate
New submitter hyperclocker shares a report from NY Daily News: Amazon workplace employees may soon be guided by their wrists. The tech company this week received two patents for a wristband designed to guide warehouse workers’ movements with the use of… Continue reading Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees’ Movements
Bank of America may not be willing to help customers invest in Bitcoin, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t plowing into the technology underlying the cryptocurrency. From a report: The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender has applied for or received at l… Continue reading Bank of America Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents
TiVo’s Rovi subsidiary on Wednesday filed two lawsuits in federal district courts, alleging Comcast’s X1 platform infringes eight TiVo-owned patents. “That includes technology covering pausing and resuming shows on different devices; restarting live pr… Continue reading TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator’s X1 Infringes Eight Patents
Patents may sometimes get a bad rap for how they are abused (and misused) by some companies for commercial gain, but they also remain a marker of how a tech company is progressing with its R&D and pushing ahead on innovation. For one measure … Continue reading IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you’ve read our coverage of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” series, you know America has a patent quality problem. People apply for patents on ideas that are ob… Continue reading Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted
jespada writes:
New York Times has an article warning that the Patent Appeal and Trial Board is being challenged on the basis that patents represent real property and that a government agency is not empowered to take real property.
Here’s a quotes fr… Continue reading Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America’s Supreme Court Change That?
An Australian court can’t make a California advocacy group take down a web page, a U.S. federal judge just ruled on Friday. Even if that web page calls a company’s patents “stupid.” Courthouse News reports:
San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Found… Continue reading EFF Beats ‘Stupid’ Patent Troll In Court
Apple has finally claimed victory over Samsung to the count of $120 million. “The Supreme Court said today that it wouldn’t hear an appeal of the patent infringement case, first decided in 2014, which has been bouncing through appeals courts in the yea… Continue reading Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle
New submitter EndlessNameless writes: If you like fair play, you might not like future Activision games. They will cross the line to encourage microtransactions, specifically matching players to both encourage and reward purchase. Rewarding the purchas… Continue reading Activision Patents Pay-To-Win Matchmaker
AnalogDiehard writes: The recent — and questionable — practice of technological and pharmaceutical companies selling their patents to U.S. native Indian tribes (where they enjoy “sovereign immunity” from the inter partes review (IPR) process of the P… Continue reading Tribal ‘Sovereign Immunity’ Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed