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InternetNews April 18, 2007 Roy Mark |
Dems, Republicans Unite on Patent Reform Identical bills introduced in House and Senate to reduce infringement awards and to change Patent Office procedures.  |
InternetNews June 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
A Tech Difference on Patent Reform? InterDigital tells Congress that Microsoft and other large tech companies are only interested in reducing liability for infringement.  |
InternetNews May 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
A Rocky Road to Patent Reform A member of the House Judiciary Committee overseeing the Patent Reform Act of 2007, said he was optimistic "we'll finally pass patent reform this year."  |
InternetNews July 12, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Senate Panel Amends Patent Reform Bill Patent reform in Congress took a tentative step forward today with the Senate Judiciary Committee approving several amendments to the proposed legislation.  |
PC Magazine July 4, 2008 Adam K. Cramer |
Giving Patents an Upgrade Lawsuits are hurting big tech companies, some of which are calling for an overhaul to the patent system.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 William Sweet |
Keeping Score in the IP Game Quantity and concentration of patents strengthen the case for legislative reform.  |
InternetNews May 17, 2007 Roy Mark |
House Panel Approves Patent Reform Bill Patent reform wobbled out of a U.S. House subcommittee Wednesday afternoon with even those voting for it demanding changes before a full House Judiciary Committee vote.  |
InternetNews April 26, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech Wants Patent 'Trolls' Tamed Intel's top patent attorney urged a Senate panel Monday to crack down on "trolls" who manipulate the patent system for large profits.  |
InternetNews March 4, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Third Time the Charm for Patent Reform? Bipartisan group of lawmakers trying again on patent reform, but opposition remains strong.  |
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.  |
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.  |
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.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2009 |
Judge Overturns Uniloc Verdict and $388M Fine Microsoft could win the equivalent of a damages trifecta across several cases if its luck keeps up.  |
InternetNews May 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
For IT Firms, Patent Reform Is All About Money As battle for patent reform continues on the Hill, tech companies are embroiled in an increasing number of intellectual property disputes, with damages awards all over the map.  |
InternetNews April 1, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Is Patent Reform Fight Almost Over? Many in the tech industry support sweeping patent reform effort.  |
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software?  |
InternetNews September 19, 2007 Caron Carlson |
Same Patent Fight, New Patent Challenges NTP finds itself back in the patent-litigation spotlight, except it might not be as bright.  |
InternetNews June 19, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Loses Another Round in Excel Patent Case A United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a patent infringement verdict against Microsoft from last year, and as Microsoft protests, the bill piles up.  |
Bank Technology News May 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
Patent Cases and Reform Bedevil Banks Perpetual litigant Data Treasury's recent $27 million patent infringement verdict against US Bank, Viewpointe and other codefendants marks the latest spanking the banking industry has taken in patent cases.  |
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million.  |
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
Vonage Asks Court to Vacate Infringement Verdict Vonage late on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to vacate a lower court decision that the Internet telephone company infringed on patents held by Verizon.  |
InternetNews June 12, 2007 Roy Mark |
Republicans Seek Delay in Patent Reform Bill Two days before a scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee markup of the Patent Reform Act of 2007, four Republican members of the panel are seeking a delay in the vote. The lawmakers said the controversial measure deserves further hearings.  |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Roy Mark |
Court Rules RIM Infringed A federal appeals court ruled today that a district court properly determined that Research in Motion infringed on the patents on NTP, but still sent the case back to the district court for further review of damages.  |
InternetNews October 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Patent Suit Against RIM Moves On Wireless e-mail provider Research in Motion won't get a break from NTP's patent infringement suit.  |
Bio-IT World November 19, 2004 Lentini & Bent |
Intellectual Property: Patents and Genomic Medicine Patents, so critical to encouraging investment in developing new technologies, threaten to become a legal and economic minefield that could prevent effective commercial exploitation of genomics.  |
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark |
Second Look For Dynamic Web Patents The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review two patents held by EpicRealm, a Texas firm that has filed a number of infringement lawsuits against companies employing dynamic Web technology.  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Banks Need Patents, Experts Say In light of recent patent litigation, banks must understand the importance of protecting their innovations.  |
InternetNews March 12, 2010 |
Microsoft Loses Another Round in i4i Case In latest setback in patent case, appeals court reiterates that Microsoft's infringement was "willful," while both sides wait to see if the court will agree to hear Microsoft's en banc appeal.  |
InternetNews July 20, 2007 |
Big Steps For Patent Reform Strongly favored by the technology sector and equally opposed by the biotechnology and manufacturing industries, The Patent Reform Bill of 2007 would represent the first significant changes in patent law in several decades.  |
Inc. June 2006 Athena Schindelheim |
Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot.  |
InternetNews September 7, 2007 Caron Carlson |
House Passes Major Patent Reform The U.S. House approved legislation today that seeks to overhaul and modernize over 55 years of patent law and address a patent-award system that bi-partisan groups have long argued is broken.  |
InternetNews July 29, 2004 Eric Griffith |
Proxim Loses Patent Dispute with Symbol Courts have upheld a ruling from last year forcing Proxim to pay its rival $23 million over patents related to wireless networking, plus another $3 million in interest.  |
Information Today July 2, 2013 George H. Pike |
Why Patent Litigation Was on the Upswing in 2012 2012 was a "banner year in patent litigation," with increases in the number of patent infringement lawsuits filed in the federal courts and larger damage awards.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Kirk Teska |
The Story Behind the BlackBerry Case A single filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1991 has caused one of the largest patent disputes in recent memory, threatening to sever more than 3 million BlackBerry subscribers from their wireless e-mail service.  |
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike |
Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.  |
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Trolling for Patents Patent infringement claims are easy to make and difficult to disprove.  |
InternetNews July 19, 2007 Roy Mark |
Patent Reform Bill Moves Forward in U.S. House In a unanimous voice vote, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this week endorsed patent-reform legislation, which the tech industry has been pushing for decades.  |
InternetNews September 11, 2009 |
Appeals Court Saves Microsoft $358 Million A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a $358 million damage award against Microsoft in a patent lawsuit is exorbitant, but still found that the software giant had still infringed a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent.  |
InternetNews March 29, 2006 Roy Mark |
eBay Urges High Court to 'Buy It Now' Online auction giant eBay told the Supreme Court today that a permanent injunction against its Buy It Now feature is unnecessary and unwarranted, contending that money damages alone could atone for the company's proven patent infringement.  |
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.  |
InternetNews September 26, 2007 Caron Carlson |
Vonage Dealt Sprint Nextel, Verizon Patent Blows VoIP provider Vonage, in the midst of Verizon appeals, takes a Sprint Nextel patent blow.  |
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.  |
InternetNews May 3, 2010 |
Novell, Red Hat Win Victory in Patent Fight Rival open source vendors prevail in joint defense against infringement charges brought by firm trying to assert rights to invention covered under 1991 patent.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Mr. Smith Went to Washington For Patent Reform Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith calls for patent reform at the American Enterprise Institute.  |
InternetNews October 6, 2009 |
Eolas Sues Almost Everybody Over Browser Apps After Eolas' patent was extended, the tiny firm is taking it to the courts.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey |
No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.  |
Home Theater February 26, 2008 |
TiVo's Lawyers Trash EchoStar's Lawyers U.S. District Court of Appeals ended a legal fistfight between TiVo and EchoStar. The court upheld a lower court ruling that the owner of the Dish Network infringed patents for a "multimedia time warping system."  |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Toppling Trolls Patent trolls take a hit in a Supreme Court ruling.  |
Home Theater June 11, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
TiVo Patent Claim Rejected Federal patent agency says company doesn't own DVR concept.  |
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Back to Court for Eolas and Microsoft A federal appeals court sends the patent infringement case back down for another trial.  |