Blog Archives for the tag Patent

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Facebook Responds to Yahoo's Latest Claims

As we reported earlier today, Yahoo has added two more patent claims to its case against Facebook. A Facebook spokesperson gave us the following comment regarding Yahoo’s latest move: We…

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Microsoft vs. Facebook – Who Got the Better Bang for their Billion?

April 9th, 2012 will go down in shopping history as the day the software gods emptied the coffers to preserve mobile market share with two very disparate strategies. While both…

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Google Wants to Serve Ads Based On Your Phone's Background Noise

Just when you think that we’re pretty tech savvy, companies like Google and Nokia file outlandish “forward-thinking” patents that make you feel like we’re all in a Star Trek episode….

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Kodak Sues Samsung Over Five Patents

Two weeks ago, we reported that Kodak was looking into filing for bankruptcy if it couldn’t sell off enough of its patents. Kodak licenses some these to companies like LG,…

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IBM Was Granted 6,180 US Patents in 2011, Apple? 676

IFI Claims has released its top 50 US patent assignees of 2011. IBM was number one of the list with an astounding 6,180 granted patents. The rest of the list…

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Patent Troll company suing over WiFi

As you know, this is a litigious society. There are companies set up all around the world to purchase companies who have portfolios of trademarks and patents. See, the company…

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Amazon Patents Unwanted Gift Return

Amazon has filed a patent for a system where people will be able to return or “convert” gifts sent to them by loved-ones or relatives before they make it to…