Buckle up: Amazon wages legal war vs. counterfeits and PR battle vs. vestiges of Trump administration Amazon and luxury retailer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. filed two lawsuits Thursday in federal court in Seattle against four people and… Read More
Redfin co-founder sues company for alleged patent infringement over 3D home tour technology One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that… Read More
F5 Networks secures NGNIX software builds as precaution after visit from Russian law enforcement F5 Networks says it has taken steps to ensure the security of the master software builds for NGINX, the popular… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Witchcraft and neuropsychology; Jet City Comic Show; and more — Halloween is just a couple weeks away and the Pacific Science Center is celebrating the holiday with a spooky… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founder leaves Fred Hutch; IPO filing warned of IP risks from dual roles Dr. Harlan Robins, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies, stepped down from his role as head of… Read More
Microsoft vows to cede patent rights to customers for jointly developed technology Microsoft, which has spent decades building its intellectual property war chest, says it will give ownership of patent and industrial… Read More
Google remembers information wants freedom, reverses decision to force 9to5google.com to change name Hypocrisy. Google managers should have expected to see that word used a lot to describe their actions had they not… Read More
Amazon files patent to ‘transform’ your entire living room into another reality Amazon has shown interest in augmented reality for a while, but on Tuesday the company was awarded a set of… Read More
EA’s Madden NFL loses IP lawsuit, could owe $11 million to original programmer A jury ruled in favor of the original developer and programmer of EA’s massive Madden NFL franchise on Tuesday, awarding… Read More
Untangling Justice: The case of Aaron Swartz Commentary: I spent much of Saturday trying to reconcile two very different approaches to justice meted out by the Obama… Read More
Microsoft, Apple, others beat Google with $4.5B bid for giant Nortel patent trove A consortium that includes Microsoft, Apple and Sony bid a whopping $4.5 billion in cash to win more than 6,000… Read More
Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag [Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More
