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Here’s how a law designed to fight the Mafia could stop abusive patent lawsuits
RICO was designed to stop the Mafia. Can it be used against patent trolls?
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New Tesla patent: 400-mile battery pack using metal-air & lithium-ion batteries
Tesla Motors is exclusively an electric car maker, with Elon Musk expressing disdain for cars like the Chevy Volt and BMW i3, which pack gas-powered range-extenders. But Tesla may be working on a different kind of hybrid; a hybrid battery pack that could extend the range of cars like the Tesla Model S by up to 40%, allowing for 400 miles of driving between charges.
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Troll Fighting: Anatomy of a Patent Lawsuit
FindTheBest.com, a company that runs a comparison-shopping website, found itself on the receiving end of a complaint (PDF) filed earlier this year by Lumen View Technology, a company that files lawsuits against other companies. Lumen claimed violation of a patent it had licensed and offered the shopping site a choice: Do battle in court or agree to pay a fee.
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Samsung, Google, Apple, and MSFT warn EU officials about patent trolls
These guys rarely agree on anything, but for now, they all are banding together to warn EU regulators about the dangers of patent trolls.
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F.T.C. Votes for Inquiry Into Patent Businesses
WASHINGTON — Stepping into a volatile debate in the technology sector, the Federal Trade Commission on Friday said it would use its subpoena power to begin an investigation of so-called patent trolls, businesses whose primary purpose is to stockpile patents and use them to sue other companies.
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US regulators seek public input on plan to investigate patent trolls
The US Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead – slowly – with plans to investigate the ways and practices of so-called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs): patent trolls, to you and me.
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Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage
After two years, judge lets Lodsys settle cases, refuses to hear Apple's motion. Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.
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Pepsi Patents Packaging to Make Your Drink More Fragrant
PepsiCo. has long been in the market of tickling your taste buds with sweet beverages. Now, the company wants to appeal to your sense of smell, too. A Pepsi patent aims to make its beverages more fragrant by developing a to release favorable aromas as a can or bottle is opened.
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The world’s craziest toothbrush cleans your teeth in six seconds and is 3D printed
One of the most promising applications of 3D printing is the customization of everyday objects to the most personal and variable thing we possess—our bodies. A new example of this is the Blizzident toothbrush, which is made possible by two intersecting technologies—3D scanning and 3D printing.
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Nokia Rejected by High Court in InterDigital Patent Case
The U.S. Supreme Court let InterDigital Inc. pursue a bid to extract patent royalties from Nokia Oyj for the third generation of mobile-phone technology. The nation’s highest court today rejected an appeal by Nokia, which contended that InterDigital couldn’t block imports of the disputed technology because it wasn’t making any products of its own. A federal appeals court had said InterDigital could press the case, one of several the company has filed at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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Samsung proposes five-year patent lawsuit hiatus to escape EU antitrust warnings
Almost 20 months after the European Commission (EC) formally launched an investigation into its patent licensing practices, Samsung believes it has come up with an answer. Today, the EC published an open call for comments on the Korean manufacturer's proposal relating to the abuse of standard essential mobile patents (SEPs). In that respect, Samsung says it will not seek an injunction against any company, including Apple, wishing to license its patents for a period of five years.
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Finally, a bill to end patent trolling
Bipartisan bill has most of what reformers want, and a real chance of passing.
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Patent troll asks judge for gag order to silence opponent
Lumen View's lawyer says that its $50,000 demand must be kept secret.
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Apple Wins Patent-Infringement Trial Against Wi-Lan
Apple Inc. won a patent-infringement trial in which Wi-Lan Inc. was seeking $248 million from the iPhone maker over an invention for wireless technology used in mobile devices. Apple didn’t infringe a patent for technology used in wireless networking, a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, said today. The jury, which deliberated for just over an hour, also said the two patent claims were invalid.
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Microsoft and Apple sue Google in patent wars
Rockstar, a major tech consortium, is suing Google and other manufacturers alleging patent infringement. The consortium own thousands of patents bought from Nortel when the company went bankrupt, and is using then to sue Google, Asus, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech, Samsung, and ZTE.
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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google
Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents, and has launched a major attack.
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Microsoft Is Making An Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties
Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit.
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NASA-Caliber Nuclear Engineer Wins $73m in Super Soaker Royalties
You couldn't make it up: According to a 2001 Times article, aerospace engineer was Lonnie G. Johnson had been working on technology for a $1.6 billion-dollar spacecraft when he accidentally discovered a children's toy that is now his claim to fame. Tasked with "preparing an interplanetary spacecraft for its atomic battery" at his day job, he was working on a side project at home one night when he turned on a faucet hooked up to one end of a "prototype cooling device" with a metal nozzle.
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Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat
Motorola has applied for a patent of a microphone with a tranceiver and power supply that is designed to be tattooed onto your throat.
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US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty
The year's most controversial secret treaty just became very, very public. WikiLeaks has posted a full copy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership proposals from this August, revealing many provisions that have only been seen by a small group of lobbyists and heads of state. Nothing in the text has been definitively agreed to, but it offers a rare look into the state of a treaty that could lock in a broad range of rules about information access, patents, and consumer hardware.
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