Slashdot Items Tagged "patents"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:46PM Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says
Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:36PM Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:45AM Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up To IPO
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:48PM America's Last Top Models
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:24PM EU Lawmakers Back Draft Rules on Patents for Connected Cars, Telecom Equipment
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:23PM Apple Sues To Win Trademarks For Augmented-Reality Software
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:58PM US Patent Office Confirms AI Can't Hold Patents
Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:55PM Cloudflare Defeats Another Patent Troll With Crowd-Sourced Prior-Art Army
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:15AM Google Faces Multibillion-Dollar US Patent Trial Over AI Tech
Friday December 29, 2023 @05:34PM Scientists Still Shoot For the Moon With Patent-Free Covid Drug
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:17AM AI Cannot Be Patent 'Inventor,' UK Supreme Court Rules in Landmark Case
Monday December 18, 2023 @04:43PM Apple To Pause Selling New Versions of Its Watch After Losing Patent Dispute
Friday December 08, 2023 @04:52PM White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs
Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:21PM Lenovo Seeks Halt of Asus Laptop Sales Over Alleged Patent Infringement
Monday November 06, 2023 @12:59PM Huawei and Tencent Spearhead China's Hold on Cybersecurity Patents
Friday October 27, 2023 @04:47PM Apple Watch Faces Potential Import Ban In the US
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:35AM China Widens Lead Over US in AI Patents After Beijing Tech Drive
Monday October 16, 2023 @04:57PM Cloudera Hit With $240 Million Patent Verdict Over Cloud-Storage Technology
Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:10PM Apple, Broadcom Ordered To Pay $1.1 Billion To CalTech In Patent Case
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:35PM Federal Judge Throws Out $32.5 Million Win For Sonos Against Google; Google Starts Reintroducing Software Features It had Removed
Friday September 01, 2023 @07:15PM Microsoft Patents Sensor-Filled, AI-Assisted Backpack
Monday August 21, 2023 @04:57PM AI-Generated Art Cannot Receive Copyrights, US Court Says
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:50PM Nintendo Is Trying To Patent Some Really Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics
Monday June 19, 2023 @07:04PM Mastercard Submits Fresh Trademark Application For Crypto Tech
Monday June 12, 2023 @06:25PM US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents
Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:59PM Smart TV Industry Rocked By Alleged Patent Conspiracy From Chipmaker
Friday May 26, 2023 @05:26PM Sonos Wins $32.5 Million Patent Infringement Victory Over Google
Monday May 15, 2023 @02:43PM Google: AI Should Not Be Considered an Inventor
Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:13PM The Rapid Rise of Generative AI Threatens To Upend US Patent System
Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:12AM Google Wins Appeal of $20 Million US Patent Verdict Over Chrome Technology
Friday April 14, 2023 @05:03PM Google Must Face Trial Over Sonos Patents, California Judge Says
Monday March 20, 2023 @01:55PM Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit
Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:50AM UK Argues AI Is No More of an Inventor Than Your Cat
Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:21AM Dell and Partners Smash Patent Troll WSOU in Court
Monday February 27, 2023 @06:24PM Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves, Drive Away If You Miss Payments
Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:50PM Apple Patent Describes a Way To Read Back iMessages In the Sender's Voice
Monday February 13, 2023 @04:26PM Creator of Linux Virtual Assistant Blames 'Patent Troll' For Project's Death
Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:13AM 'Mycroft' Open-Source Voice Assistant Out of Funds, Can't Fulfill Remaining Kickstarter Rewards
Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:08PM A Drug Company Made $114 Billion Gaming America's Patent System
Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:05PM Apple Watch Patent Infringement Confirmed, As Masimo Seeks Import Ban
Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:24PM Intel Settles To Escape $4 Billion Patent Suit with VLSI
Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:01AM 23 Years Ago, Amazon Gave Barnes & Noble a 1-Click Patent Lawsuit For Xmas
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:37PM Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent
Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:10AM After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival
Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:24PM Amazon Joins Open Invention Network
Monday October 17, 2022 @05:42PM Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN
Monday October 03, 2022 @06:47PM Apple Loses Second Bid To Challenge Qualcomm Patents At US Supreme Court
Saturday October 01, 2022 @08:35PM Meta Ordered To Pay $175 Million For Copying Green Beret Veteran's App
Friday September 23, 2022 @06:48PM Coinbase Sued For Patent Infringement Over Crypto Transfer Technology
Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:51PM Intel, Which Coined The Term 'Patent Troll', Makes Deal With Patent Troll To 'Monetize' Unused Patents
Friday August 26, 2022 @12:00PM Moderna Sues Pfizer Over Covid-19 Vaccine Patents
Monday August 08, 2022 @05:17PM Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology
Monday August 08, 2022 @02:46PM Inventors Must Be Human, Federal Circuit Rules in Blow To AI
Monday July 25, 2022 @10:35AM Apple's Patent History Reveals a Major Push Into Autos
Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:28PM IPhone Sales Banned In Colombia
Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:20PM UK Decides AI Still Cannot Patent Inventions
Monday June 27, 2022 @05:06PM Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Bid To Continue Fighting Over Two Qualcomm Patents
Friday June 24, 2022 @01:44PM The Ohio State University Officially Trademarks the Word 'THE'
Friday May 27, 2022 @05:31PM RED Sues Nikon For Infringing On Its Video Compression Patents
Saturday May 07, 2022 @08:52PM GNOME Patent Troll Gets Stripped of Patent Rights
Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:46PM Russia Says Its Businesses Can Steal Patents From Anyone In 'Unfriendly' Countries
Monday March 07, 2022 @07:05PM Open Source Zone Grinds Away At Patent Trolls
Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:03AM BlackBerry's 5G Phone Is Officially Dead
Friday February 18, 2022 @04:07PM Alarm Raised After Microsoft Wins Data-Encoding Patent
Monday January 31, 2022 @05:22PM BlackBerry Sells Mobile and Messaging Patents For $600 Million
Friday January 07, 2022 @06:15PM Sony Is Working On 3D Scanner That Can Put Real-World Items Into Video Games
Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:55PM Google Found To Have Violated Sonos Patents, Blocking Import of Google Devices
Monday December 27, 2021 @01:15PM Japan To Pay Companies To Keep Sensitive Patents Secret
Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:43AM Clearview AI On Track To Win US Patent For Facial Recognition Technology
Monday November 15, 2021 @04:34PM Peloton Sues Rivals Over Alleged Patent Infringement Related To On-demand Classes
Friday November 12, 2021 @05:07PM Apple Patent Fights Lookie-Loos With Glass-Activated Screen Blur
Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:45PM US Government Owes Over $100 Million For TSA's Patent Infringement
Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:20PM Sony Patent Lets Viewers Vote and Pay To Boot Players From Games
Friday September 24, 2021 @06:53PM Engineer Devises 'UFO Patents' For US Navy
Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:55PM UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor
Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:26PM German Court Upholds Ban On Samsung Galaxy Tab
Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:15PM Unity Patents 'Methods and Apparatuses To Improve the Performance of a Video Game Engine Using An Entity Component System'
Friday September 03, 2021 @11:54AM Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a US Patent, Judge Rules
Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:47PM New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation To Make Quantum Computing More Efficient
Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:35PM Programmer Apologizes For Sending Letters Claiming Patent on Age-Old Web Standard
Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:22PM Apple Wins Patent For Dual-Display MacBook With Virtual Keyboard, Wireless Charging Capabilities
Monday August 16, 2021 @03:53PM Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers
Monday August 02, 2021 @04:26PM Australian Court Rules An AI Can Be Considered An Inventor On Patent Filings
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:19PM Amazon Wins Trial Over Technology To Order Groceries With Alexa
Friday May 14, 2021 @05:26PM Apple Patents a Way To Deliver 3D Content Without 3D Glasses
Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:03PM Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System To Stop Pirates
Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:57PM Ford Patents Tech That Could Scan Billboards and Show Associated In-Car Ads
Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:01PM Apple Wins New Trial in $506 Million Patent-Damages Award
Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:58PM Inspur, China's Largest Cloud Hardware Vendor, Joins Open-Source Patent Consortium
Saturday March 13, 2021 @05:20PM IBM's Patent Income Slips as Companies Resist 'Godfather' Deals
Tuesday March 02, 2021 @04:09PM Intel Told To Pay $2.18 Billion After Losing Texas Patent Trial
Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:51PM US Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will 'Engineer the Fabric of Reality'
Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:15PM New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users' Speech To Recommend Music
Friday January 22, 2021 @07:59PM Microsoft Patent Shows Plans To Revive Dead Loved Ones As Chatbots
Friday January 15, 2021 @04:23PM Apple Fails To Overturn VirnetX Patent Verdict, Could Owe Over $1.1 Billion
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:14PM Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:09PM Judge Refuses Apple Request For Samsung Ban, But Denies New Trial, Too
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:25PM Apple Researching Keyboards With Adaptive Displays on Each Key
Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:26PM Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:05PM Vestager Seeks Patents Overhaul Amid Court Fights Over Cars
Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:49PM Slashback: How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar
Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:19PM Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents
Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:43PM A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech
Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:24PM Software Could Help Reform Policing -- If Only Police Unions Wanted It
Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:01PM Big Tech is Suing the Patent Office
Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:30PM Man Sues Patent Office For Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things
Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:59PM New H.266 VCC Codec Up To 50% More Efficient Than Previous Standard
Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:23PM Apple Granted Patent That Would Allow For Socially Distant Group Selfies
Friday May 22, 2020 @10:17AM Linux Desktop Org GNOME Foundation Settles Lawsuit With Patent Troll
Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:14AM Predictive Text Patent Troll Tries To Shake Down Wikipedia
Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:42PM People Are Open-Sourcing Their Patents and Research To Fight Coronavirus
Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:13PM In a First, China Knocks US From Top Spot in Global Patent Race
Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:35AM SoftBank-owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents
Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:32PM IBM Takes Airbnb To Court Over Historic Patents
Saturday February 29, 2020 @02:29AM Brexit fall out - UK to will not ratify EU-Wide patent system
Monday February 24, 2020 @05:22PM Supreme Court Rejects Apple Appeal In Patent Fight With VirnetX
Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:17PM Nonprofit Argues Germany Can't Ratify the 'Unitary Patent' Because of Brexit
Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:57PM 'Project Magnum': Flywheel's Alleged Plot To Steal Peloton's Technology
Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:14PM JPEG Committee is Banking on AI To Build Its Next Image Codec
Monday February 10, 2020 @10:06AM FBI is Investigating More Than 1,000 Cases of Chinese Theft of US Technology
Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:13AM Apple Patents Foldable Device With Movable Flaps To Prevent Display From Creasing
Monday January 27, 2020 @05:17PM Apple Imagines iMac Built Into Curved Sheet of Glass
Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:36PM Court Overturns Patent Ruling That Would've Cost Nintendo $10 Million
Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:48AM US Patents Hit Record 333,530 Granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (Not the FAANGs) Lead the Pack
Monday January 13, 2020 @01:33PM Supreme Court Declines To Consider Medical Diagnostic Patents
Friday January 10, 2020 @06:02PM Fitbit and Garmin Are Under Federal Investigation For Alleged Patent Violations
Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:07PM Sonos Sues Google For Allegedly Stealing Smart Speaker Tech
Monday January 06, 2020 @06:56PM Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths
Friday January 03, 2020 @09:46AM EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications in Which an AI Was Designated As the Inventor
Friday November 22, 2019 @06:25PM Court Rules Apple Doesn't Owe Patent Troll $503 Million
Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:55AM How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll -- and Won
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:36PM 'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use
Monday October 07, 2019 @11:27AM US Supreme Court Snubs University of Wisconsin Appeal in Patent Fight With Apple
Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:07AM GNOME Foundation Is Being Sued Because of Shotwell Photo Manager
Friday September 27, 2019 @04:51PM Apple Considers Using Iconic Logo As a Notification Light, Patent App Suggests
Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:46PM Apple Patents Watch Band That Could ID You From Your Wrist Skin
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:29AM Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source
Friday August 23, 2019 @04:53PM Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents?
Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:14PM An AI System Should Be Recognized As the Inventor of Two Ideas In Patents Filed On Its Behalf, Academics Say
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:38PM University of California Sues Five Major Retailers Over Edison-Style LED Bulbs
Monday July 22, 2019 @06:30PM Apple In Advanced Talks To Buy Intel's Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:49PM Intel Launches Blockbuster Auction For Its Mobile Portfolio
Friday June 21, 2019 @04:53PM Amazon Patents 'Surveillance As a Service' Tech For Its Delivery Drones
Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:35PM Senator Rubio Targets Huawei Over Patents
Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:42PM Huawei Asks Verizon To Pay Over $1 Billion For Over 230 Patents
Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:40PM Retired Georgia Tech Professor Is Suing Uber, Lyft For Patent Infringement
Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:08PM Amazon Patent Reveals Plans To Allow Alexa To Listen, Record Users At All Times
Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:59PM The Bizarre Sage Of Europe's Orwellian Patent Office
Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:48AM US Judge Says Qualcomm Violated Antitrust Law
Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:56PM Over 5,784 Patents Are Currently Classified - FreeTheTech Wants Them Opened Up
Friday April 26, 2019 @10:46PM PepsiCo Sues Four Indian Farmers For Using Its Patented Lay's Potatoes
Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:34PM Amazon Is Working On Hot Air Balloon Drone That Approaches Homes Silently
Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:41PM Bank of America Tech Chief Is Skeptical of Blockchain Even Though The Company Has the Most Patents For It
Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:04PM Grandson of Legendary John Deere Inventor Calls Out Company On Right To Repair
Friday March 15, 2019 @04:22PM Apple Dealt Legal Blow as Jury Awards Qualcomm $31 Million
Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:03PM Samsung Patents Wireless TV With No Power Cable
Friday March 01, 2019 @03:14AM Folding iPhone Patent Application Shows How the Company Could Prevent Damage In Cold Weather
Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:38PM BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement
Friday February 22, 2019 @05:44PM Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:37AM Qualcomm Urges US Regulators To Reverse Course, Ban Some iPhones
Monday February 18, 2019 @04:20PM Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case
Friday January 25, 2019 @04:30AM US Patent Operations May Shut Down In Second Week of February
Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:19PM Software Patents Poised To Make a Comeback Under New Patent Office Rules
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:55AM IBM Tops 2018 Patent List as AI and Quantum Computing Gain Prominence
Wednesday January 02, 2019 @08:19PM Apple Receives a New Patent For 'Smart Fabric'
Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:31PM Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case
Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:22PM Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition
Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:40AM Apple Tweaks iOS Animation In China In Attempt To Avoid Sales Ban
Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:29AM Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location
Monday November 19, 2018 @04:29PM Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers
Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:36PM Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos
Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:05PM Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection
Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:36PM Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt
Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:40PM Software Freedom Conservancy Shares Thoughts on Microsoft Joining Open Invention Network's Patent Non-Aggression Pact
Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:29PM Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature
Monday October 01, 2018 @04:48PM Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology
Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:16PM OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:52PM Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech
Friday August 31, 2018 @03:20PM 80-Year-Old Inventor Gil Hyatt Says Patent Office is Waiting For Him To Die
Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:17PM Tesla Files Patent For Automatic Turn Signals
Monday August 06, 2018 @04:41PM The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks
Friday August 03, 2018 @01:32PM GE Engineer With Ties To China Accused of Stealing Power Plant Technology
Friday July 27, 2018 @04:57PM IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case
Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:07PM Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court
Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:56PM IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement
Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:31AM Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns
Tuesday July 03, 2018 @04:44PM Micron Chip Sales Banned In China On Patent Case
Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:31PM Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV
Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:05PM Apple, Samsung Settle After Fighting Seven Years in Court
Friday June 22, 2018 @04:32PM Supreme Court Backs Award of Overseas Patent Damages
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:36PM Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:58PM Uber Seeks Patent For AI That Determines Whether Passengers Are Drunk
Monday June 11, 2018 @05:59PM Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work
Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:15PM Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds
Friday May 18, 2018 @07:21PM Congress Is Looking To Extend Copyright Protection Term To 144 Years
Friday May 11, 2018 @07:00AM Xiaomi Sued For Alleged Patent Infringement Ahead of Blockbuster IPO
Friday May 04, 2018 @09:59PM Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:00PM Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla
Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:22PM Nintendo Faces Switch Patent Infringement Investigation In the US
Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:52PM Patent 'Death Squad' System Upheld by US Supreme Court