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TiVo, AT&T Settle Patent Dispute for $215 Million, Agree to Act Civil
TiVo is on a roll. Following a $500 million settlement with satellite TV company Dish Network and its set-top box provider, EchoStar, back in May 2011, TiVo just put the squeeze on cable TV operator...
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IBM Helps Google Pad Its Patent Portfolio
It looks as though Google decided to treat itself to a holiday bonus by splurging on over 200 patents belonging to IBM. The latest round of patents run the gamut from wireless phone technologies to...
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LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft, Is a Chromebook Forthcoming?
While Microsoft is all about its Windows Phone platform, Google's Android OS is proving a profitable nugget for the Redmond software giant. What some people don't know is that Microsoft collects...
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Apple Turns Attention to Bankrupt Kodak as Relentless Patent Litigation...
When it rains, it pours, and as if Kodak didn't have enough to worry about already as it ditches the camera business and tries to figure out how to pay back movie studios millions of dollars it owes in...
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Want To Vibrate When Grandma Calls? Nokia Applies For Haptic Tattoo Patent
If you own a cellphone, there's a good chance you've encountered phantom vibrations; you know, when you could've sworn you felt your phone vibrating in your pocket when it really wasn't. Nokia's poised...
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Oracle, Google Fail to Reach Settlement in Java Patent Lawsuit
Google and Oracle sat down for a last-ditch, court-ordered settlement conference over the weekend, but their latest attempt at settling their longstanding patent dispute failed to yield any results...
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Uh Oh Ultrabook Fans, Apple Snags Broad Patent for MacBook Air Wedge Design
It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when you're Apple, a company that thrives on form just as much as it does on function, there's nothing flattering about other companies...
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Judge Calls for Patent Sanity, Throws Out Apple/Motorola Case
Software patents, to put it mildly, are a bit of a mess. Its difficult for us to say that innovation which happens in bits, rather than hardware shouldn’t be protected, but naturally a line must be...
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Report: Patent Trolls Cost Economy $29 Billion In 2011, Often Target The...
Don't feed the trolls; the axiom may work well for avoiding Godwin's Law in forum postings, but it isn't working so well in courtrooms around the globe. In fact, a new study from the Boston University...
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RIM Slips Out of $142.7 Million Patent Fine in Appeals Court
Research In Motion (RIM) managed to escape from having to pay a hefty patent infringement fine when the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California overturned an earlier verdict that...
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Major Patent Dispute Pits Apple/Microsoft-led Rockstar Group vs Google,...
The mother of all patent lawsuitsPatent disputes are unfortunately a common occurrence in the tech industry, but boy-oh-boy, the patent lawsuit filed by Rockstar may take the cake. In this case,...
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Google Files Lawsuit Against Apple- and Microsoft-backed Patent Group
Rockstar Consortium under fire after targeting AndroidGoogle has decided that enough is enough. The company has filed a lawsuit against Rockstar Consortium—a patent group backed by many of Google’s...
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AT&T Files Patent to Limit File-Sharing Bandwidth
This may affect your file-sharing needsAT&T has developed a Credits System for the purpose of limiting file-sharing bandwidth as reported by TorrentFreak. The telecom company filed a patent on...
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Samsung Paid Microsoft Over $1 Billion in Android Patent Royalties in 2013
Entertainment and Devices Division’s 2013 operating income pales in comparisonA couple of months back, Microsoft instituted legal proceedings against Samsung for its refusal to fulfill “substantial”...
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Patent Troll’s Bid to Benefit from Windows Live Tiles Falls Flat
All patent claims ruled ‘unpatentable’Microsoft is not the only company to have pinned high hopes on Windows Live Tiles and been let down. The user interface element that has come to be associated with...
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