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Starbreeze Is Exploring a Number of New Intellectual Properties

Starbreeze, the developer of the upcoming Syndicate first person shooter remake, has announced that it has plans to explore the original intellectual property space, after launching the Electronic Arts published title.Mikael Nermark, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Starbreeze, has told Gamasutra that, “We...

23 January 2012
14:31 GMT

NetherRealm No Longer Working on Mortal Kombat

Ed Boon, who is the leader of the NetherRealm development studio, has announced that his team was no longer working on the Mortal Kombat franchise for the time being and was focusing on creating a new intellectual property.The veteran video game creator has not mentioned whether his company was still linked to the fi...

14 December 2011
14:01 GMT

Square Enix Plans Two or Three New Intellectual Properties

Speaking to investors as part of a financial briefing Yoichi Wada, who is the president of Square Enix, has stated, “Regarding yet unannounced IPs, we should certainly be able to announce two to three titles to everyone within a few years.”The executive also believes that his company would be best served ...

1 December 2011
09:28 GMT

Ubisoft Prepares More Original Games

Ubisoft believes that, in order to continue to be competitive in the video game industry, it needs to deliver more new intellectual properties in the coming years, with one leading developer saying that the French publisher is like a evil empire of creativity.Jason Van den Berghe, who is the creative director working...

15 November 2011
08:11 GMT

Huawei in Line for Microsoft Android Patent Licensing Deal

While there’s no telling who’s first in line to get a new patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, Huawei’s turn sure seems to be coming. The Chinese-based company confirmed that it started the negotiations with the software giant over an intellectual property agreement designed to cover the use...

8 November 2011
10:02 GMT

Square Enix Sees Less Revenue, More Profit Because of Deus Ex

Video game developer Square Enix has announced that during the second fiscal quarter of this year it has managed to generate sales of 47.516 billion Yen (about 735 million dollars or 533 million Euro), which is a decrease of about 15 percent when compared to the same period of last year.For the same time period profi...

7 November 2011
07:31 GMT

Kinect Protected by Nearly 600 Patents

The groundbreaking Kinect NUI (natural user interface sensor) that Microsoft launched almost a year ago to breathe new life into Xbox 360 consoles is protected by a vast dowry of intellectual property, the software giant revealed. According to the Redmond company, approximately 600 patents have been filled in an ef...

31 October 2011
08:02 GMT

Over 50% of Android Devices Covered by Patent License Agreements with Microsoft

Only some 45% of all Android devices worldwide still need intellectual property coverage from Microsoft. At the end of the past week, the Redmond company announced a new patent license agreement with Taiwan-based original design manufacturer Compal Electronics. The newly inked deal is synonymous with an important mil...

24 October 2011
03:59 GMT

Vince Zampella Says Video Game Developers Need Control

Since leaving Infinity Ward and launching legal action against publisher Activision the ex-leaders of Infinity Ward have been unwilling to talk about their next video game project and or about the lawsuit but it seems that they are interested in talking about the biggest trends in the industry, from 3D to intellectua...

26 September 2011
10:38 GMT

McAfee Reveals Major Cyber Espionage Attack

Security giant McAfee has released a report revealing that a single entity has compromised over 76 organizations during the past five years with the intention of stealing intellectual property.McAfee began investigating Operation Shady RAT, its name for the massive cyber espionage effort, back in 2006. Since then the...

3 August 2011
10:48 GMT

Apple’s IP Lawyer Resigns (Unconfirmed)

Richard "Chip" Lutton Junior, who manages Apple’s patent portfolio, will soon leave the company, according to a source familiar with the situation. Lutton did not respond to requests for comment, and neither has any Apple representative contacted for clarification on the matter, the IB Times reports. And ...

12 July 2011
07:41 GMT

License Deal Opens Microsoft’s Android-Related IP to General Dynamics Itronix

Per a new patent licensing agreement inked with General Dynamics Itronix, Microsoft has opened access to its Android-related innovations to the maker of rugged mobile computing devices. I(t should be clear by now that using Google’s open source Android platform is not free, at least not as far as Microsoft is ...

27 June 2011
11:19 GMT

Android Devices Are on the Wrong Side of Microsoft’s Patent Rights

The Android platform and by extension all Android devices are on the wrong side of Microsoft’s intellectual property rights, revealed Horacio Gutierrez, the company’s Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property & Licensing. In the past few years, the software giant poure...

22 March 2011
10:37 GMT

Microsoft: We Were Expecting the Motorola Countersuit

Motorola’s countersuit against Microsoft was to be expected, Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing, Microsoft Corporation confirmed for Softpedia. The two companies are currently in a legal face-off related to their respective intellectual...

12 November 2010
04:46 GMT

Microsoft and Salesforce.com Settle IP Differences

In mid-May 2010, when Microsoft debuted legal action against Salesforce.com alleging willful intellectual-property violation, the options of the Redmond company’s CRM rival were extremely limited. And while the intellectual property dispute between the two companies could have dragged on for years, the two chos...

5 August 2010
07:16 GMT

Microsoft Celebrates 5 Years of Successful IP Investments in Start-Ups

The Microsoft Intellectual Property Licensing program is not the only initiative through which the company shares its wealth of innovation with third-party companies. Five years ago, the software giant debuted the IP Ventures Program, making the first step toward opening up its intellectual property dowry to start-up...

24 June 2010
09:27 GMT

Microsoft Licenses VirnetX Patents for $200 Million

Microsoft has agreed to pay the VirnetX Holding Corporation no less than $200 million in order to license intellectual property that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas had found it was infringing on. With the two companies now having settled their patent-infringement cases, both lawsuits would ...

17 May 2010
08:43 GMT

Microsoft’s Patent Portfolio Dwarfs Rivals’ IP

A strong and committed strategy of investments is paying off for Microsoft which is outpacing rivals in the race to build innovation by a landslide. The Redmond company’s patent portfolio topped, for the third year in a row, a ranking put together by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)....

19 March 2010
12:16 GMT

Malwarebytes: IObit Stole Our Signatures Database

Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue legal action. Despite the solid evidence presented by Malwarebytes, IObit denies any wrongdoing and plans to respond through its lawyers.Malwarebytes Corporation is a US-based company developing several s...

3 November 2009
03:56 GMT

Open Source Group Acquires Microsoft Linux-Focused Patents

In a move designed to safeguard the Linux community, a group of companies intimately connected with the open source world revealed having acquired no less than 22 Linux-focused patents which belonged to Microsoft at one point. The Redmond-based company had initially unloaded the 22 items on its intellectual property ...

9 September 2009
06:21 GMT

Microsoft IP Protection for Linux Devices from Melco Group

Melco Group is the latest company to jump aboard Microsoft's IP licensing program in order to provide patent covenants to the customers using devices that integrate Linux and additional open-source solutions. The Redmond company noted that the patent agreement inked with Melco Holdings Inc., parent company of B...

16 July 2009
11:57 GMT

Microsoft’s Patent Dowry Now 10,000 Items Strong

Microsoft’s intellectual patent dowry now accounts for in excess of 10,000 items the company revealed this week. With the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently awarding Microsoft the 10,000th U.S. patent, the company managed to join an elite group of innovators worldwide that have also passed the milestone....

11 February 2009
07:01 GMT

Microsoft Provides Anti-Piracy Educational Materials

Via the Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum, Microsoft is essentially providing anti-piracy educational materials. The curriculum is offered for free to all teachers worldwide, and is designed to prepare children for the rules of the game in the new digital age. In this context, the focus is on protec...

15 January 2009
11:34 GMT

EA Tries to Deliver More and More Original Games

Electronic Arts doesn't have a very decent reputation in the gaming industry. People often think of the big corporation as something that wants to squeeze every last penny out of a franchise and release yearly games in most of its series that rarely bring something too innovative. Such is the case with its EA Sp...

27 October 2008
09:01 GMT

IP Family Portrait: Microsoft and Nikon

Microsoft has expanded the "family" built around its Intellectual Property Licensing program with the addition of the latest member, Tokyo-based Nikon. Both companies applauded the newly inked patent cross-licensing agreement, as the first step of a partnership designed to catalyze development of new digital imaging...

28 August 2008
05:35 GMT

Transmeta Gets $150 Million for Intel Lawsuit Settlement

Intellectual property company Transmeta has received the first $150 million as part of the deal inked with chip manufacturer Intel. The ex-supplier of low-voltage x86 CPUs is currently developing and licensing microprocessor technologies with the accompanying intellectual property. Immediately after the transition, T...

11 February 2008
09:09 GMT

Is Microsoft Trying to Teach Linux a Lesson?

Microsoft has announced a new broad patent cross-licensing agreement with Olympus. Neither of the two companies disclosed the financial terms of their agreements. The only details made available by Microsoft were related to the fact that its patents will be implemented into technology going in digital cameras, digita...

16 October 2007
03:15 GMT

Mentor Launches Integrated Subsystem IP for USB

Mentor Graphics Corp. has the first Subsystem IP line, a complete USB solution that has both a digital controller, a physical-layer component and middleware. In the near future there is talk of getting out to the market Subsystem IP-based products for Ethernet, PCI and Serial ATA applications. The move that determine...

29 March 2007
10:01 GMT


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