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Google has gotten the go-ahead to buy Motorola from both EU and US competition regulators, on the same day. It still needs approval in China and a couple of other places, but the major hurdles have been cleared. Regulators said that the deal posed no real threat to competition and so would approve the acquisition, h... |
14 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Google is continuing to beef up on patents to help it protect itself from lawsuits. The company has history of not applying for too many patents while at the same time working on various technologies in various fields; Technologies that in some way or another interfere with technologies from other companies; Companie... |
4 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Microsoft just announced that it's gotten yet another unfortunate Android phone maker to pay up or be sued for patent infringement. What this means for Android is pretty clear, it's a big threat, one that Google doesn't seem to be doing much about.But the deal also had to do with Chrome OS. It's n... |
24 October 2011
17:21 GMT |
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There's no love lost between Google and Microsoft, especially when it comes to patent issues. With Microsoft going around bullying phone makers into paying a patent licensing fee for using Android, you can expect Google to be rather upset and it's made no efforts in trying to hide it.At the same time, Micro... |
17 October 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has struck a cross-licensing patent deal with Samsung. Under the threat of litigation, the two companies meet at half way and agreed to license each others' patents. Neither is giving away too many details on the deal, but one thing is clear, Samsung will be paying Microsoft for each Android phone it s... |
29 September 2011
09:35 GMT |
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Even after getting some 17,000 patents from Motorola, through the acquisition of the mobile hardware maker, which has not been finalized, Google is not satisfied with the patents it's got. It has now been revealed that the company bought another batch of 1,023 patents from IBM last month.
If you've been ... |
15 September 2011
09:11 GMT |
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The Oracle - Google patent lawsuit is great fodder for sensationalist headlines and some of the recent developments are quite interesting, like the fact that a Google engineer admitted that he had access to Sun (now part of Oracle) Java code when writing Google's version.
Less shocking and revealing, despite ... |
8 September 2011
09:40 GMT |
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In the escalating patents war, Google has been staying mostly quiet so far. It did start gobbling up patents wherever it could and complained about the unfairness of it all, but it's been mostly on the defensive, in fact, mostly on the sideline.
With HTC's latest lawsuit against Apple, Google is finally ... |
8 September 2011
03:30 GMT |
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The news that Google bought mobile phone maker, among other things, Motorola is making the rounds and is one of the biggest things to happen this summer in the mobile and tech space. There are a lot of ways of looking at this and many paths Google could take moving forward.The reason why Google bought Motorola is als... |
16 August 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Google may be complaining about "bogus" patents that threaten Android, but the company has plenty of patents of its own. Granted they're not that many when compared to its competitors, but one of the most recent ones shows that Google can apply for 'interesting' patents, just like anyone else. Google w... |
11 August 2011
09:14 GMT |
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It's been building up for a lot of time, but Google's and in particular Android's problem with patents is bubbling up lately. So much so that Google has decided to speak up and it doesn't mince words, accusing Microsoft, Apple and Oracle of conspiring to hassle Google and Android.
David Drummon... |
4 August 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Impulse Technology, a company based in Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against software giant and Kinect developer Microsoft, saying that the company is in breach of no less than seven of its patents that are linked to how the movement of a player is tracked in order to be translated into inputs for video games. The paten... |
25 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Now that Google has messed up the Nortel patent bid, and lost more than 6,000 patents to competitors, the company is looking at alternatives to counter the growing threat of patent litigation, chiefly from Apple and Microsoft.According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is in talks with a patent licensing company cal... |
22 July 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google seems to be finally waking up to the sober reality that is the tech world of 2011. It could be firing on cylinders, having its engineers create great products that people love, and it wouldn't matter for nothing, if it doesn't have a mountain of patents to defend itself against the number of 'te... |
14 July 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Google received a major blow when it got more than 6,000 mobile-related patents snatched from under its nose by a group led by its biggest rivals in the space, Apple and Microsoft, which outbid it.
Both of these companies already have huge patent troves, while Google has only a few hundreds and is increasingly und... |
11 July 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Google is well known for its search engine, the product that started it all, but some of its search features and specialized search engines are less known. One though is about to get a lot more exposure, Google Patent Search is now being integrated in the sidebar.For some users, it hasn't been rolled out to ever... |
29 April 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Progress and breakthrough in the field of stem cell research is currently being stifled by the multitude of patents and privatizations of stem cell lines, data and pioneering technologies, a new analysis says. The only way to ensure we can move forward in this regard is to stop this effect, experts believe. This is t... |
11 February 2011
03:18 GMT |
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South Korea Electronic giant LG has filled a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission against Japanese company Sony over a dispute about patents which could result in a ban on the import of the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console into the United States.LG says that Sony has infringed on its paten... |
9 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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As some of you will certainly remember, back in November 2010, we were talking about just how badly Intel requires the right to use NVIDIA technologies in order keep up its edge against AMD, and now, it seems that the two computing behemoths have finally reached a deal, that will see a rather hefty amount of money ex... |
11 January 2011
00:52 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems posed by virtual keyboards available via touchscreen displays is that they don't really offer the same level of physical feedback as their USB or PS/2 counterparts, but it seems that Microsoft might be working on a technology that will actually solve this issue and grant touchscreens ... |
29 November 2010
01:44 GMT |
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Little after a month from the first lawsuit against Motorola for smartphone patents, Microsoft is filing charges again, this time for wireless and video coding patents that are used by the Xbox team.Mary Jo Foley reports that yesterday, Microsoft sued Motorola for asking “excessive and discriminatory” roy... |
10 November 2010
06:30 GMT |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) associate professor of chemistry Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, was recently awarded a new patent by United States authority, on the development of a new type of hydrophobic, corrosion-resistant coating. The stuff can be applied on a wide range of surfaces, in both an opaque and trans... |
2 March 2010
10:06 GMT |
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As the economic downturn was taking its toll on the economies of the Western world, this was made very apparent in the number of patents developed countries applied for. For last year, most of them experienced an abrupt drop in application numbers, but the same trend was not obvious for Asian nations. Among them, Chi... |
16 February 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Despite the fact that genetics research institutes and universities in the United States conduct their work with federal money from taxpayers, instances in which they apply for patents on discovered genes and derivative tests are not rare. This has been the subject of mounting criticism, as some believe that a single... |
27 January 2010
07:02 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics, the second largest handset vendor in the world, announced today that it reached an agreement with Qualcomm, according to which it woluld pay US$ 1.3 billion for the use of its patents. According to the phone manufacturer, the agreement includes the use of Qualcomm... |
6 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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An electrical engineer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NIJT) has managed to crack a code that will allow investigators around the world to know for sure if and where a picture has been modified. Finding out if a photo has been changed will be very simple, NIJT professor of electrical and computer engineeri... |
2 April 2009
02:45 GMT |
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Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two leading economists from the Washington University in St. Louis, believe that the time has come for patents and copyright to disappear as pieces of legislation from the laws of all countries. They say that the most important asset that any nation now has in front of the economi... |
6 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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University of Utah civil engineer Lawrence Reaveley came up with a potentially brilliant new idea for disposing off the enormous amount of garbage generated on the planet each day, in the form of a new patent idea that claims plastics – which make up the majority of wastes worldwide – could be used for co... |
8 January 2009
12:27 GMT |
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Yesterday, Red Hat took a stand on challenging the standards for patenting software. In the Bilski case that's at this moment before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the issue is ripe for consideration. Red Hat shows the problems that software patents bring to open source and seeks modifications to the stan... |
8 April 2008
10:55 GMT |
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Over the past few years patents (or their infringement) have become the favorite lawsuit subject between various technology manufacturers, especially since these legal actions are generally associated with huge amounts of money in damages and possibly even the injunction of certain products on certain markets. And th... |
28 December 2007
13:26 GMT |
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Patent agreements are probably the most controversed partnerships if we'd be talking in terms of open source. Existing or possible partnerships between companies such as Novell or Red Hat and Microsoft have always kept the headline on many news channels and they've also been the hot topic for numerous, mor... |
24 May 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Guess what story just won't end up once for good? Exactly; the one started by Microsoft when it accused Linux of infringing some MS patents. Just to remind it, Microsoft claimed in an interview with Fortune magazine that Linux and other free software infringed on 235 patents the company holds. After listening t... |
17 May 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Once again I will speak about the Microsoft patents matter, which has lately made Internet detour. This time I am backed up by the lead developer of the Linux kernel, Mr. Linus Tovarlds. Mr. Tovarlds has finally decided that this paranoia, which flamed Microsoft so harsh lately, reached its climax and tries to cool ... |
16 May 2007
08:35 GMT |
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The old OSRM study claiming Linux might break more than 200 software patents were brought back in the spotlight by Microsoft and things kind of started to cause a stir on the Internet in the past few days. Now that the patents-storm has settled down for a while let's see what it was all about. Everything starte... |
15 May 2007
08:09 GMT |
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I'm sure you heard about all kinds of anti-rape devices. You know, belts that once installed, couldn't allow rapists to hold victims down and open the protection belt at the same time. Well, now there are other anti-rape solutions. Rapex is a condom-like anti-rape device which has fish-like teeth. Once intr... |
20 March 2007
11:52 GMT |
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