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Google Maps Might Be Banned In Germany Over Patent Infringement
Google Maps may be banned in Germany as the result of a patent infringement lawsuit underway at a regional court in Germany. As FOSS Patents reports, Judge Matthias Zigann told Google today that he’s...
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Google’s Patent Pledge Covers Its Own Ass
Google’s pledge to back open patents is a typically Google gesture: an elegant combination of genuine altruism, PR spin and protecting its own self-interests. Thursday morning, Google outlined the Open...
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Weaponizing The Patent System: A Tiny Startup Faces Financial Extinction
Ditto is a 15-person eyewear startup that utilizes remarkable software — a 3D modeling system that replicates the buyer’s face — to let customers try on glasses virtually before purchasing them....
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Holding A Patent Doesn’t Mean We Use That Patent In...
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a YouTube video talking about a recent SEO misconception that he would like the SEO and webmaster world to “put to rest.” Matt said, just because Google...
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Inside The Mind of A Patent Troll: If It's Legal, It Must Be OK
If you believe companies formed to litigate patent suits aren’t worth a lick of spit, then meet the new Dr. Evil: CopyTele Inc. (CTI), which sued Microsoft on Wednesday over encryption technologies...
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Google Files for Smartwatch Patent
The application describes a device that would be placed on a wristband and would include one or more touch displays. The watch would include both clock hardware and a data line, suggesting the device...
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Microsoft's Mobile Patent Strategy: Threaten, Don't Sue
It’s official: patent litigation is a fool’s game. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the past few years of patent litigation in the mobile industry have yielded participants very little, as...
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Taiwanese Research Firm Claims Patent Law Suit Against Google Search Products
Institute for Information, located in Taipei, Taiwan, has brought a patent lawsuit against Google in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. According to the case, the research...
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Why Samsung’s Latest Victory In Its Patent War With Apple Is Mostly Meaningless
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,...
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An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?
Given the inanity that is our current patent system, it’s not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of...
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White House Takes Small Step To Patent Reform By Vetoing iPhone Ban
The White House has decided that it wants to have a say in the in the ongoing patent wars that have waged between smartphone manufacturers over the past several years. This weekend, the Obama...
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Why China And India Could Disrupt The US Patent System
No one but patent trolls—entities seeking to profit from patents they don’t actively use in making products—likes the current US intellectual property regime. Inefficient and outdated, the US patent...
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Google Patent Search Expands To China, Germany, Canada & WIPO
Google announced they have expanded their database of patent documents within Google Patent Search to include patent documents from an additional set of agencies. The new patent agencies included in...
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Maps Roundup: Google Avoids Waze Antitrust Fight, Scout Social Mapping,...
Google spent just over $1 billion to take Waze away from Facebook, Apple or Nokia and Microsoft. It equally sought the real-time driver feedback that Waze crowd-sourcing provides. Given the size of the...
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What’s At Stake For Google & Android In Rockstar’s Patent Lawsuit
Google’s Android operating system may be the rock star of mobile world, but it has another group of rock stars that are trying to knock it from its perch. Google, Samsung, HTC and basically every major...
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IBM Tries To Put Twitter In Patent Cage
This may have been the day that IBM actually started to look desperate. In an update to its S-1 filing prior to its initial public offering some time this week, Twitter somewhat casually revealed that...
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Apple Wrenches Another $290 Million From Samsung In Patent Retrial
Apple has again bested Samsung in a California patents court, wrenching another $290 million from its Korean rival in a retrial to determine damages from the dramatic showdown the two company’s had...
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Google Loses Again In AdWords Patent Infringement Case
A judge has determined patent-holding company Vringo is entitled to additional royalties from Google in a patent infringement case involving Google AdWords. The order stems from a case brought by...
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Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll
A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and others using two patents related to search advertising. The plaintiff won...
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AdWords Patent Infringement Costs Google Big Money
The court in Virginia has ordered Google to pay a royalty for all AdWords advertising revenue to Vringo for patent infringement, for infringing upon two patents it owns. Google is appealing the...
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