Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, took a critical turn recently in a patent war wi...
IBM, the largest United States patent holder, made an unusual move in 2005 when it donated 500 patents to the open sourc...
SEATTLE - It seems not a week goes by these days without news of another patent battle or announcement: Microsoft reachi...
Should patent lawsuits filed in federal courts be hidden from the public? We don’t think so, especially where a patent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said Monday that Taiwan-based Compal Electronics has joined a growing list of gadget makers li...
The UK's ratification of an international agreement to establish a new Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Europe has moved cl...
As patent licensing and litigation activities have increasingly captured headlines, a perception has emerged that patent...
For the better part of the nearly 250 years of the existence of the United States of America, the U.S. patent system has...
Earlier today(06.07), shortly after 4pm ET, Michelle Lee sent an e-mail (see below) to employees of the United States ...
The US Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed as it ruled that patent infringeme...
It appears not just unfair, but absurdly so. The US government paid for research that produced a patented drug, the pate...
The early spring has certainly been quite sunny for Palo Alto, CA-based automaker and energy storage company Tesla Inc.....
The United States Department of Defense has announced that it intends to grant Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical c...
A federal appeals court sided with Nintendo in a patent infringement lawsuit surrounding its Mii character creation and ...
Even the authors admit they were surprised by their findings: that incubators, by draining resources from other universi...
Transportation company Uber has said that a request for a preliminary injunction by Google’s former self-driving car di...
While traditionally known as a US trend, patent lawsuits involving NPEs are becoming a global matter as NPEs seek out co...
While calls for widespread patent reform are not as loud as they have been in previous years, 2017 is shaping up to be a...
Federally funded inventions are supposed to stimulate innovation and new business models, but in the hands of patent tro...
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated Ex parte Schulhauser, Appeal 2013-007847 (PTAB April 28, 20...
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on Monday initiated a patent investigation of certain mobile device hold...
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office today announced that as part of its effort ...
Patentees in the software and life sciences industries are paying close attention to new guidance issued by the U.S. Pat...
On May 6, 2016, Michelle K. Lee, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United St...
A district court litigation has lots of moving parts all by itself. But add in an IPR and then an ITC Section 337 invest...
EFF moves to unseal important rulings regarding repeat litigant Blue Spike The public has a First Amendment right to acc...
The UK government has prepared legislation to give effect to EU legislation on the unitary patent and to the Agreement o...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has launched a patent search tool that enables users to interact with past patent act...
In 2010, a Korean manufacturer of automobile bumpers filed patent applications for a multi-purpose bumper in both countr...
InterDigital Inc has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license its technology conside...