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RSS patentsUHF Gen 2: Deep and Wide, Near and Far
White Paper The key to this development is Impinj's patented (and patents pending) technologies for harnessing UHF's near field - that aspect of the radio wave that is particularly well-suited to close range, item-level RFID... [12 Nov 2009]
Nokia sues Apple, claims patent infringement
News Nokia is suing Apple over the alleged infringement of 10 of its patents. According to the Finnish mobile maker, Apple's iconic iPhone device infringes on the patents relating to wireless handsets. Nokia... [23 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment The company's strategy employed the insight of many hundreds of outside partners, while a 'use it or lose it' approach to their patents - resulting in patents being sold on if they weren't being used -... [14 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile For Engström it is his latest move in his ongoing battle against digital copyright, working as an unpaid activist within the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a not-for-profit organisation that lobbies against software... [08 Oct 2009]
Microsoft wins U-turn in $388m lawsuit
News The victory in the Uniloc case comes as Microsoft is awaiting the result of an appeal in another patent case in which the custom XML feature in recent versions of Word was found to infringe on patents held by Canada's i4i. [30 Sep 2009]
Skype founders vs Skype: 'You've violated our patents'
News Joltid, a peer-to-peer software company established by Skype's founders, filed a copyright suit against Skype on Wednesday alleging Joltid's technology is being infringed on by Skype users "in the United States at least 100,000 times... [17 Sep 2009]
A New Course of Treatment to Maximize Efficiency - SAS for Life Sciences Sales and Marketing: Exploiting Proven Data Integration and Analytics to Ensure Healthy Returns on Sales and Marketing
White Paper With competing drugs fighting for the attention of physicians, patients and payers - and a limited window of opportunity before patents expire - pharmaceutical companies have no margin for error in implementing their... [16 Sep 2009]
Code, not patents, for Microsoft open source foundation
News The About page adds companies will contribute code, not patents, which could cause the existing open-source community to avoid the CodePlex Foundation. Allowing these companies to keep their patents will... [14 Sep 2009]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft - patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. The Open Invention Network said that the... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft accused of 'scare tactics' as judge grants a stay in Word case
News The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted Microsoft's motion for a stay, pending appeal, of an injunction issued in August by a federal judge that bars sales of Word that include a custom XML code found to... [04 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Earlier this year pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline put hundreds of formerly closely guarded patents into an open 'patent pool', to encourage collaborative development of cures for some of the world's most deadly... [03 Sep 2009]
Quantum Corporation Speeds Time to Market, Reduces Costs With Product Lifecycle Management Applications
White Paper Quantum Corporation wanted to accelerate product innovation and time to market for new storage products and upgrades, and optimize value realized on patents in the competitive data storage market and drive down... [28 Aug 2009]
'You can't sell Word' ruling: Microsoft files formal appeal
News Earlier this month, a federal judge increased that monetary award and also issued an injunction barring sales of Word that include the custom XML code found to infringe on i4i's patents. It captures the hostile attitude... [27 Aug 2009]
SCO Group wins copyright appeal against Novell decision
News SCO Group, whose six-year-old legal case arguing Linux infringes its Unix copyright hasn't been enough to keep it from the bankruptcy courts, nevertheless won an important victory in its case on Monday. [26 Aug 2009]
Microsoft looks to reverse 'you can't sell Word' ruling
News This is a vital case for inventors and entrepreneurial companies who, like i4i, are damaged by the wilful infringement of their patents by competitors; particularly competitors as large and powerful as Microsoft. [24 Aug 2009]
