Rambus signs patent licensing deal with Broadcom

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:05 Written by External Post Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:05

Patent firm sues German retailers over HTC phones

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 December 2011 08:05 Written by External Post Thursday, 22 December 2011 08:05

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Patent firm IPCom has sued German retailers for patent infringement for continuing to sell phones made by HTC, the No. 4 smartphone maker globally.

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German patent firm sues retailers to halt HTC sales

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 December 2011 02:05 Written by External Post Thursday, 22 December 2011 02:05

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Patent firm IPCom said it sued about 100 German retailers for patent infringement, saying they continued selling phones made by HTC beyond a deadline it had imposed earlier this month.

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Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks?

Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2010 04:22 Written by External Post Friday, 20 August 2010 04:22

destinyland writes “A book editor at Houghton Mifflin argues ebook advertising is ‘coming soon to a book near you.’ (Paywalled unless you go through Google.) Amazon has filed a patent for advertisements on the Kindle, and the book editor joins with a
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Google hits back at Oracle’s lawsuit

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:20

Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform . Oracle’s lawsuit is a disappointing and “baseless” attack not only against Google
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Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents

Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 02:20 Written by External Post Friday, 13 August 2010 02:20

Bruce Perens writes “Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java platform in Android. Scribd has a copy of the complaint. But there’s a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free.
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Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:40

bool2 writes “Google has been awarded a patent for displayingresults based on how you move your mouse cursor on the screen… Google’s plans are to monitor the movements of the cursor, such as when a user hovers over a certain ad or link to read a
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Facebook, Stop What You’re Doing: Amazon has Patent for ‘Social Network’

Last Updated on Friday, 18 June 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Friday, 18 June 2010 05:00

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USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the “Social Networking System”

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:20

theodp writes ‘After shelling out a reported $90 million to buy PlanetAll in 1998, Amazon shuttered the site in 2000, explaining that ‘it seemed really superfluous to have it running beside Friends and Favorites.’ But years later in a 2008 patent filing,
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Google Describes Wi-Fi Sniffing In Pending Patent

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:00

theodp writes ‘After mistakenly saying that it did not collect Wi-Fi payload data, Google had to reverse itself, saying ‘it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi
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