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InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.   |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2005
Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 9, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Monetizing IP: The Executive's Challenge In this Q&A, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in Intellectual property, including the rise of patent pools. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2004
Ed Sutherland |
A Call for WiMax Licensing Group Via Licensing Corporation is calling for WiMax patent-holders to join a program with the ultimate goal of creating a portfolio of essential 802.16 technology that can be offered to companies at a single license price. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2004
Ann Cullen |
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It Innovators and society are paying too high a price in the current patent system, says Adam B. Jaffe and Harvard Business School's Josh Lerner in their new book, 'Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress,' excerpted here. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Lawrence Rosen |
Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property. |
Entrepreneur
October 2005
Chris Penttila |
Patent Pending Have an idea for the next big thing? You'll need a patent, but pay attention to big changes in store for U.S. patent law. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 6, 2006
Sara Grant |
Sorting Out the Patent Craze Standard setting organizations must by wary of patents when establishing technology standards that might result in a patent owner holding the entire industry hostage. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2011 |
What's Fueling the Tech Patent Bull Market? As companies amass patents to sue each other, is it time for the patent system to be reformed? |
Bio-IT World
June 17, 2004
Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2007
Michael Hickins |
Broadcom Piles on Qualcomm's Legal Woes Broadcom charges Qualcomm with unfair competition, fraud and breach of contract. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents When it comes to patents, high technology firms are, out of necessity, interdependent... |
Bank Technology News
January 2004
Karen Krebsbach |
Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time. |
Linux Journal
May 1, 2002
Lawrence Rosen |
The Role of Standards in Open Source And, on how new standards are often compatible with free and open-source licensing... |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
William Sweet |
Keeping Score in the IP Game Quantity and concentration of patents strengthen the case for legislative reform. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2005
Dave Mock |
BlackBerry Still Getting Squeezed Research In Motion's litigation with NTP may not be over. The companies' ongoing patent battle matters to investors for a number of reasons. Investors, take note. |
CFO
July 1, 2006
Linda Corman |
What Do You Know? Tracking patent portfolios is not only critical for growth, it's necessary for survival. Here are the top 10 patent recipients for 2005: IBM... Canon Kabushiki Kaisha... Hewlett-Packard Development... etc. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 19, 2006
Paul Allen |
Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Research In Motion's Gamble The maker of BlackBerry devices finds itself in a classic catch-22. Uncertaintly over the NTP lawsuit made it hard for RIM to sign partners. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2007
Dave Mock |
Dial "0" for Lawsuit The legal drama between wireless firms Qualcomm and Nokia is ramping up. Both companies have seen their stock prices momentarily drop at each turn of events over the past few years, but it's speculative to assess the long-term effect on either company's shares. |
BusinessWeek
January 13, 2010
Steve LeVine |
IBM May Not Be the Patent King After All IBM wins more U.S. patents than any other company, but Microsoft's are worth much more money, says a new study. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Major Headaches Possible for Tech Patent Holders The outcome of LG Electronics' patent lawsuit could improve protections on technology patents - or throw those protections out the window. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Qualcomm's License to Drive The the wireless communications chip provider hopes for another year of uninterrupted profit growth. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
September 6, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America's Troubled Patent System The jury finding in this case has triggered an onslaught of commentary and has also brought up many questions about the nature of the U.S. patent system. The comments have ranged from "software patents are evil" to the U.S. has a "broken patent system." |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2007
Michael Hickins |
Nokia Accuses Qualcomm of 'Serial Litigation' Qualcomm announced that it has filed suit against handset maker Nokia yesterday, as the two companies continue to spar over their respective intellectual property rights. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Tam Harbert |
The Troubled Life of Patent No. 6,456,841 Tracing the tortured legal trail of a simple smartphone patent |
InternetNews
February 1, 2007
Roy Mark |
Quality Checking Patent Reform Longtime allies Berman and Boucher team on the Patents Depend on Quality Act of 2006. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2007
Dave Mock |
InterDigital Wins One, Loses Some An English High Court has ruled that a claim in one of InterDigital's patents is indeed essential to making any wireless device using a worldwide next-generation standard called UMTS. |
The Motley Fool
November 5, 2009
Eric Jhonsa |
Qualcomm's Patent Throne Becomes a Little Less Comfortable The Samsung deal suggests that Qualcomm is compromising on its lofty ambitions. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
BellSouth, Comverse Settle Patent Spat BellSouth will license telecom technology covered under two patents to Comverse |
InternetNews
January 11, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pledges Patents to Open Source IBM said Tuesday it is pledging 500 software patents to developers of open source software so they can develop without fear. The patents are available to those who abide by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and use one of 50 OSI-certified licenses. |
InternetNews
October 28, 2009 |
Apple to Nokia: We're Ready to Rumble The two tech titans are set to battle over Nokia's claims that Apple illegally used its technology in the iPhone. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2011
John Grgurich |
How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Dolby Scores a Patent Victory the Right Way Dolby Laboratories and Research In Motion agreed to bury the hatchet and smoke a peace pipe. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2010 |
Microsoft Rules the Software Patents Hill Again In the annual race to win as many patents as possible, Microsoft ends up in front at least in the software category. So how valuable are those patents to a company the size of Microsoft? |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2005
Clint Boulton |
CA, IBM Join in Open Patent Pledge Rivals Computer Associates International and IBM have agreed to exchange software license rights and releases in a bid to bring technologies to the public for open source development. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
A Game of Patents: Acquire or Die Tech companies fight tooth and nail for protection against patent litigation. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2010 |
Microsoft Settles Patent Dispute With VirnetX Microsoft agrees to shell out $200 million for a one-time fee, and commit to additional licensing arrangements for two patents concerning VPN technology. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
Why Qualcomm Is a Teflon Stock Legal challenges mount, European regulators circle, and Wall Street still loves Qualcomm. |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Why Do Inventors Innovate? Are inventions supposed to make the world a better place, or are they just another get-rich-quick scheme? |
PHONE+
December 11, 2009 |
Apple Slaps Nokia with Patent Contersuit The suit by Apple is a move to counter the patent infringement suit Nokia brought against Apple back in October. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Olga Kharif |
The Patent Battle in Smartphones Industry players are suing and counter-suing one another over intellectual property. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft: Open Source Infringes on 235 Patents Microsoft continues to allege Linux patent infringement but still doesn't identify which ones. |
InternetNews
February 22, 2005
Jim Wagner |
FOSS Calls For OASIS Patent Boycott A group of Free and Open Source Software advocates wants OASIS to revise the patent license terms found in its industry-standard technology. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2011
Anders Bylund |
A Patent Giant Tightens Its Grip Universal Display locks down the rights to a costly set of Motorola patents. |
InternetNews
February 21, 2008 |
RIM, Moto Take Patent Fight to Court While Research In Motion and Motorola battle in court over the use of each other's patents and licensing, experts say the smartphone vendors need each other to survive and hope the litigious action won't continue for long. |
