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Appel has been ordered to pay $439.7 million to the patent-holding firm VirnetX for infringing on four patented technologies that were apparently used in FaceTime and other iOS apps. According to The Verge, Apple plans to appeal the ruling — continuin… Continue reading Apple To Appeal Five-Year-Long Patent Battle After $439.7 Million Loss
AnalogDiehard writes: Congress created the Inter Partes Review (IPR) in 2012 within the U.S. Patent Office Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB) as a faster and cheaper way to challenge and invalidate bad patents. The IPR expense is a fraction of the … Continue reading US Congress Investigates Patent ‘Gifts’ That Evade Inter Partes Review
Cloudflare declared war on a group of lawyers that files patent lawsuits against tech firms, by offering bounties for the discovery of patent-invalidating “prior art.” Now an anonymous reader writes:
On Thursday, Cloudflare announced it has paid out th… Continue reading Cloudflare Pays First $7,500 Bounties In War Against Patent Troll
In October, Kaspersky Labs was sued by a “do-nothing patent holder in East Texas who demanded a cash settlement before it would go away,” reports Ars Technica. Today, founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said his company has defeated five patent assertion … Continue reading Kaspersky Lab Forces ‘Patent Troll’ To Pay Cash To End Case
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Donald Trump has selected Andrei Iancu, the managing partner of a major Los Angeles law firm, to be the next head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Iancu has been a partner at Irel… Continue reading IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo Is Trump’s Pick As USPTO Chief
An anonymous reader shares an article: Next month e-commerce will change forever thanks to Amazon. September 12 marks 20 years since Amazon filed for their 1-Click patent. This means that the patent will expire and the technology behind it will be free… Continue reading E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A patent published today explains how a phone could identify cracks on its touchscreen and then apply heat to the area in an effort to slightly repair the damage. The process relies on something calle… Continue reading Motorola Patents a Display That Can Heal Its Own Cracked Screen With Heat
An anonymous reader shares a report: For most of its 111-year history, Xerox has been known as one of the tech industry’s most innovative companies. Now the legendary copier company is reinventing itself. In January, Xerox made the bold decision to spl… Continue reading We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues
Toyota has patented a cloaking device that aims to make big, chunky car pillars transparent. The “apparatuses and methods for making an object appear transparent” which Toyota just patented uses cleverly placed mirrors to bend light around an object ma… Continue reading Toyota Patents Cloaking Device To Make Car Pillars Appear Transparent
A federal appeals court affirmed the April 2015 inter partes review (IPR) ruling — a process that allows anyone to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” “That proce… Continue reading ‘Podcasting Patent’ Is Totally Dead, Appeals Court Rules