
Amazon ‘1-Click’ patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
Amazon’s 1-Click “business method” patent expires today. What that means is that anyone will soon be able to duplicate its functionality...

Love, Not War: Microsoft & Google End Patent Suits
Yesterday Google and Microsoft agreed to dismiss multiple patent lawsuits against one another. While the settlement terms were not...

Ericsson Seeks To Block iPhone In U.S. In Latest Patent Dispute
Patent litigation is heating up again. Earlier this week, Apple was hit by a half-billion dollar jury verdict over iTunes. Now, Swedish...

Texas Jury Hands Patent Troll Massive $533 Million Damages Award Against Apple
A federal jury in Texas, the favorite venue of patent litigants, has awarded an IP holding company, called Smartflash LLC, $532.9 million...

Google Patent For Ads That Follow You Surfaces
Imagine if after clicking on an ad, it expanded and then persisted as you navigated to additional web content linked to from the ad...

Google Wins Patent-Infringement Appeal Against Vringo
Google appears to have finally come out on top in its patent-infringement battle with Vringo Inc. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of...

Apple & Google End Bitter Mobile Patent Litigation Chapter
settled their mutual mobile patent claims against one another. However, the companies declined to do a cross-licensing deal, which is...

Patent Verdict: Apple Wins The Round But Fails To Land A Blow Vs. Samsung
After a hard fought and widely publicized trial, Apple extracted a jury verdict of just $119 million against the Korean company. It’s a...

Second Apple Patent Suit Vs. Samsung Ropes In Google
The parties return to court this week for another round of patent-for-tat. The new case presents five Apple claims against Samsung and...

Coming To Google: Click On Ad, Get Free Ride To Merchant Or Restaurant?
US 8630897 B1 which essentially allows advertisers to show a sort-of transportation ad extension offering free or discounted travel to...

Verdict: Samsung Owes Apple $290 Million More But It Won’t Matter
according to AllThingsD. In total, Samsung owes Apple nearly a billion dollars in damages not counting legal fees. Yet for both...

Google’s $1 Billion Waze Acquisition To See Antitrust Review
In addition, Waze becomes one fewer potential mapping challenger in the marketplace. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FTC “is...

Apple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claims
according to Foss Patents, which also reports that Apple asserts Google Now infringes two patents associated with Siri. Overall, there...

Europe Finds That Google’s Motorola Unit “Abused Its Dominant Position” In Patent
preliminary determination that Google’s Motorola Mobility unit “abused its dominant position” under EU antitrust rules in seeking to...

Federal Judge Expresses Anger Toward Apple, Motorola For Using Global Litigation “As A Busines
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” two nearly identical aliens, inflamed by mutual hatred, beam down to their decimated planet to...

Google Countersues British Telecom In US, UK For Patent Infringement
have counter-sued the UK’s BT Group (British Telecom) for patent infringement in the US and UK. This follows a 2011 patent lawsuit filing...

Oracle V. Google Part Deux: The Copyright Appeal
Oracle has filed an appeal in its unsuccessful copyright and patent case against Google involving the Java programming language...

Facebook, AddThis Face Lawsuit Over ‘Like’ Button
Rembrandt Social Media, a patent-holding company, filed the suit last week in Virginia, saying that Facebook infringed on two of its...

Apple-Samsung Patent Verdict Now Empty Footnote In Global Smartphone Contest
$1 billion patent infringement verdict against Samsung would would rock the smartphone world. However, in the months since the landmark...
























