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GeekWire Radio: Another big week for Amazon, and inside the world of Nathan Myhrvold

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon launches a regional employee bus service, leases a giant new… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold: Why Intellectual Ventures still believes in the power of patents

Some see Nathan Myhrvold as a patent troll. He prefers to think of himself as an invention advocate. The eccentric CEO… Read More

Live Blog: Intellectual Ventures founder Nathan Myhrvold talks patent trolling, asteroids, and bread at the GeekWire Summit

Nathan Myhrvold is a polarizing figure, to say the least. From patent licensing to dinosaur growth rates to a recent controversy over the… Read More

A decade later, Redfin wins patents on key online home search tools

Founded in 2004, Redfin was an early pioneer in using online tools to find and buy homes. And now the company has… Read More

New stats: Samsung surges past IBM to lead U.S. patent race for 2015

Update: IBM says it believes it will still top the official U.S. patent list for the year. See a statement… Read More

Book Excerpt: Patents Demystified: An Insider’s Guide to Protecting Ideas and Inventions

Author Dylan Adams is a patent attorney at the Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. He holds a master’s in… 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

Amazon makes Thomson Reuters’ list of top innovators for the first time, IBM drops off

Amazon was named to Thompson Reuters’ annual list of the Top 100 Global Innovators on Thursday, marking the first time the… Read More

Amazon envisions package pickups on public transit, using lockers on buses, trains and subways

Amazon is experimenting with all sorts of ways to deliver packages, using everything from drones to everyday people. But this is a… Read More

Appeals court sides with Microsoft in dispute with Google over Motorola patents

An appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent battle with Google, further cementing an emerging legal precedent… Read More

Patent trolls increasingly targeting tech: Apple, Amazon among most frequently sued

Patent litigation in the U.S. is expected to hit an all-time high this year, and the cases are largely being… Read More

Samsung and IBM dominating U.S. patent activity this year, new study finds

Samsung and IBM were each granted more than 3,000 U.S. patents between January and May, putting the companies at the top of a new… Read More

Google unveils experimental patent buying program, makes open call to IP owners

Google this morning unveiled a new experimental patent acquisition program, seeking to upend the secondary market for patents by offering… Read More

Apple sides with Microsoft in closely watched patent dispute with Google

Lawyers for Microsoft and Google will appear Wednesday morning at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a long-running dispute… Read More

Amazon patents show new ways for shoppers to pick-up and check-out

Amazon has filed several patents recently that show that the e-commerce giant continues to be interested in the world of physical retail. Over the… Read More

Intellectual Ventures scores partial win in Motorola Mobility patent case

A jury in Delaware has ruled today that devices made by Motorola Mobility violated a patent having to do with… Read More

Microsoft inks fresh patent deals with Fuji Xerox, Melco Holdings

Microsoft announced today that it has signed new patent cross-licensing agreements with Fuji Xerox and Melco Holdings, the parent company… Read More

Amazon fights patent suit using little-noticed clause in standard AWS customer agreement

As recently as 2011, according to Amazon, someone at Appistry Inc. registered the genomics data technology company to use Amazon Web Services. As part… Read More

Intellectual Ventures licenses patents to Ford, pushing into auto industry

Intellectual Ventures has licensed its portfolio of 40,000 patents and patent applications to Ford Motor Co., according to an announcement… Read More

Intellectual Ventures wins $17M patent verdict against Symantec

Intellectual Ventures won a $17 million jury verdict against Symantec in federal court in Delaware today — significantly less than… Read More

Why action-cam underdog Contour is suing GoPro for patent infringement

Contour, the action camera company with roots in the Seattle region, has filed a patent-infringement suit against market leader GoPro —… Read More

Apple-led Rockstar Consortium sells patents to RPX

RPX Corporation purchased nearly 4,000 patents from the Rockstar Consortium, a patent holding entity that was formed by a number… Read More

How Amazon wants to use sensors to make device notifications smarter

Are you sitting on the couch looking at your tablet, or walking with your phone in your pocket? The answer… Read More

Court revives Paul Allen’s patent suit against AOL, Google, Apple, Yahoo

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s patent suit against AOL, Google, Yahoo and Apple has been brought back to life by a… Read More

Intellectual Ventures founder on the rise of China as an ‘invention superpower’

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent holding and technology company, has been through lots of ups and downs lately — laying… Read More

Chart: Apple, Amazon top list of companies most sued for patent infringement

After looking at what companies get sued for patent infringement, it’s easy to see why Apple plans to work with… Read More

Trim those trees! Why Bill Gates and friends want to put accelerometers on power lines

Accelerometers have become a common part of the sensor arrays on smartphones and other devices, but a group that includes… Read More

Apple and Google reach settlement in patent disputes

Apple and Google have reached a settlement in a series of fierce patent battles — marking a major legal truce between the companies responsible… Read More

Intellectual Ventures gets smacked down by federal judge in patent case

Intellectual Ventures has been having a rough year, and the hits just keep coming. Last week, Alex Trenga, a judge… Read More

Bill Gates vs. Google Glass: Pending patent would thwart video snooping

Google is offering its Google Glass for sale to the public for the first time today, in a limited-time promotion.… Read More