Patent War

Patent Evil: How The Patent War Is Stifling Innovation In Silicon Valley [INFOGRAPHIC]

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:57:21 GMT

Source: www.infographs.org --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Patents were initially created to protect innovation, but they are being used as weapons by evil tech companies and Patent trolls. Whether buying up patents to protect against lawsuits or amassing them in order to sue others, these villains have valued profit over creation. This is becoming a crisis, but we will prevail. Check out the infographic! ...

Rambus Settlement Ends Chip Patent War

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:07:41 GMT

Source: www.dailyreportonline.com --- Saturday, June 15, 2013
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Obama declares war on the patent trolls

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:08:00 GMT

Source: www.newscientist.com --- Friday, June 14, 2013
Barack Obama has declared that it is time to get tough on "Patent trolling", but how do we decide who counts as a troll? ...

SAP wins complicated patent war

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:50:30 GMT

Source: www.techeye.net --- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that a key Patent used in a case against SAP case is too abstract. The ruling came as part of a case where SAP was being taken to the cleaners by Versata Development Group. Since 2007, Versata had made five challenged claims against SAP of under US Patent 6,553,350. SAP asked the PTAB to make a ruling that the Patent was invalid because it described a "Method and apparatus for pricing products in multi-level product and organisational groups". Its lawyers argued that such things were not Patent eligible and it turned out to be the first ever covered business method (CBM) review trial initiated under the new Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA). In a ruling the Board agreed with SAP that Versata's claims 17, and 26-29 were not patentable. "Specifically, the claims recite unpatentable abstract ideas and the claims do not provide enough significant meaningful limitations to transform these abstract ideas into Patent-eligible applications of these abstractions," the ruling said. Yesterday's ruling follows another earlier this week demanding that SAP pay Versata a damages award of $345 million. Versata alleged SAP infringed its patents concerning computer-based product pricing. The technology enabled efficient factoring of variables such as product type and customer type, size, and geographic location, called 'hierarchical pricing'. Versa ...

Samsung Seeks Apple's Expert Testimony In Patent War

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:04:24 GMT

Source: www.law360.com --- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. urged a California federal judge Tuesday to allow the company to broaden its Patent contentions against Apple Inc. and to force Apple to hand over testimony from cases involving technology similar to the inventions at issue in their infringement War. ...

Apple import ban stokes smartphone patent war with Samsung

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:34:49 GMT

Source: www.groklaw.net --- Saturday, June 08, 2013
With dozens of lawsuits spread across four continents in their battle for a greater share of the $293.9 billion market for smartphones, each side can now claim a victory in the U.S. With plenty of litigation remaining, Samsung's victory probably won't bring the two sides closer to settling, said Will Stofega, a program director at Framingham, Massachusetts-based researcher IDC. "There's too much skin in the game now," he said. "It's almost so ugly I don't think they'll come to any agreement. Both companies have a lot of cash and are generating a lot of money. It's not like they have to worry about paying the legal bills." - Bloomberg News, Daily Herald ...

Apple and the Coming War Over Patent Trolling

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:29:47 GMT

Source: tidbits.com --- Friday, June 07, 2013
Lawyers Patent-trolling their own clients is the latest evidence that the U.S. Patent system has gotten out of control. But perhaps help is on the way. Read the full article at TidBITS , the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member ! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. ...

Why Samsung's Latest Victory In Its Patent War With Apple Is Mostly Meaningless"

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:51:17 GMT

Source: www.macsurfer.com --- Thursday, June 06, 2013
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Why Samsung's Latest Victory In Its Patent War With Apple Is Mostly Meaningless

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:06:00 GMT

Source: readwrite.com --- Thursday, June 06, 2013
Samsung has won another victory in its long-running Patent War with Apple. A new judgement bars Apple from importing certain last-generation iPads and iPhones to the United States . The win, however, is unlikely to amount to much more than a moral victory - while serving to highlight how meaningless these courtroom skirmishes are to a smartphone market that the two technology giants continue to dominate. The International Trade Commission said Tuesday that AT&T versions of Apple's iPhone 3GS and 4, and 3G-equipped models of iPad and iPad 2, infringe on a Samsung Patent covering cellular technology. The ITC issued a limited order barring those devices from being sold in the U.S. Apple has already said it plans to appeal the decision, which it can do via Federal Circuit courts or a direct bid to White House. No Impact At All Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet hit the nail on the head in a statement to AllThingsD , saying, "Today's decision has no impact on the availability of Apple products in the United States." Samsung spokesperson Adam Yates countered with a statement that included this gem: “We believe the ITC’s Final Determination has confirmed Apple’s history of free-riding on Samsung’s technological innovations.” For the unitiated, that "history" dates back to Apple's original claims from April 2011 that Samsung's early Galaxy and Nexus smartphones "slavishly" copied the iPhone's design . The original court complaint ...

Time for total war on patent trolls

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:21:10 GMT

Source: boingboing.net --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Writing in The New Yorker , Tim Wu calls for "total War on Patent trolls" and lays out a roadmap for attacking the extortionists who are costing the US economy a reported $30B/year by extorting license fees for patents that never should have been issued and don't cover what the Patent trolls say they cover. There are good laws in place that could fight trolls, but they sit largely unused. First are the consumer-protection laws, which bar “unfair or deceptive acts and practices.” Some Patent trolls, to better coerce settlement, purposely misrepresent matters such as the strength of their patents, the extent of other settlements, and their actual willingness to litigate. Second, there are plenty of remedies available under the unfair-competition laws. Some trolls work by aggregating an enormous number of patents, and then present the threat that one of their thousands of patents might actually be valid. The creation of these portfolios for trolling may be “agreements in restraint of trade” under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, or they may “substantially lessen competition” under the Clayton Antitrust Act. More generally, the methods of the trolls are hardly what you would call ordinary methods of competition; they should be considered, rather, what the Federal Trade Commission calls “unfair methods of competition” under Section 5 of the F.T.C. Act. The Commission has the power to define and punish methods of business that a ...

White House Declares War On Patent Trolls

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:06:00 GMT

Source: www.informationweek.com --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Obama administration issues executive orders and proposes legislative changes designed to protect companies from abusive Patent claims. ...

Apple Import Ban on Old iPhones Stokes Samsung Patent War

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:05:54 GMT

Source: www.newsmax.com --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Apple Inc. s first loss against Samsung Electronics Co. in a U.S. Patent case could mean a ban on imports of some older devices including the iPhone 4 while lessening prospects of the largest smartphone makers ending their legal battles. The U.S. International Trade... ...

The never-ending patent war

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:35:00 GMT

Source: evertiq.com --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Apple and Samsung have been battling it out in court for what might seem like aeons now – and it's becoming harder and harder to keep track of the wins and loses and for which region and product these applied to. ...

How to Make War on Patent Trolls

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Source: newstrust.net --- Wednesday, June 05, 2013
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Daily Kos Radio's #KITM podcast: Gop culture war, against themselves; invasion of the patent trolls

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:31:15 GMT

Source: www.dailykos.com --- Tuesday, June 04, 2013
New roof going in at the World Broadcasting Headquarters, so pardon the background thumping. Josh Barro and Erick Erickson get in a slapfight and we get to watch. Greg Dworkin rounds the day's news up, beginning with a strange exemplar of the Freedom vs. safety debate in the comments section of a Washington Post article about road safety enforcement in DC neighborhoods. Next, polling says basically no move in Obama approval rating, despite wild gyrations from Republicans over the so-called "scandals." The Republicans finally get their culture War, and it's against themselves. Armando called in to discuss Republican rebranding and outreach , Patent trolling, and the release of legislative and executive action priorities for dealing with high-tech Patent issues. Afterward, by listener request, we looked at the "Moral Monday" protests at the North Carolina state capitol, its implications for social justice, and democracy more broadly. Finally, we read David Cay Johnston's latest, "Inequality Rising--All Thanks to Government Policies," and drew a few parallels between how Patent trolls do their rent-seeking and how it's done the "Bain Way," both facilitated by the kind of gaming of the system Johnston points out, and our political and governing processes can't help but encourage. ...

Obama declares war on trolls, but all patent owners will be affected

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:28:00 GMT

Source: www.iam-magazine.com --- Tuesday, June 04, 2013
The White House Taskforce on High-Tech Patent Issues has released details of the Obama administration’s legislative priorities and executive actions that are “designed to protect innovators from frivolous litigation and ensure the highest-quality patents in our system”. My initial thoughts on this are that following Obama’s statements in February during a Google-organised event, it was always going to be the case that “trolls” would come under the administration’s microscope. However, what we have yet to get is a definitive definition of what a “troll” actually is. The President seems to believe that they are “folks” who “don’t actually produce anything themselves”;... ...

The Long War on Patent Trolls Has Begun | The Atlantic Wire

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:17:25 GMT

Source: futuretense.newamerica.net --- Tuesday, June 04, 2013
June 4, 2013 A law already exists to fight trolls — the America Invents Act, among other consumer protections — and they sit "largely unused," according to The New Yorker's Tim Wu . The laws remain unenforced, he argues, because fearful of coming out against ... Feed: In the News Items Original article ...