BlueCat enters patent deal with Intellectual Ventures Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with… Read More
Q&A: i4i chairman adds up a $290M verdict vs. Microsoft Earlier today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Toronto-based technology company i4i in a patent infringement lawsuit against… Read More
Micron, Intellectual Ventures enter licensing agreement Intellectual Ventures continues to ink deals with big technology companies, gobbling up patents and helping some of the industry stalwarts… Read More
Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures distances itself from iOS in-app patent dustup Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company and invention house run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, confirmed today… Read More
Why did Wizard Parent (aka Attachmate) just raise $377M? Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you… Read More
Attachmate: Proud owner of a 20-year-old Microsoft antitrust dispute? A federal appeals court yesterday kept alive a 2004 antitrust lawsuit in which Novell accused Microsoft of anti-competitive tactics dating… Read More
The Woz to Paul Allen: Stop patent trolling, start innovating In the annals of tech history, Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak will likely be remembered as the forgotten co-founders. Each… Read More
Barnes & Noble: Microsoft wanted ‘shockingly high’ fees for Android in Nook [Updated with Microsoft’s statement.] Barnes & Noble is rejecting Microsoft’s claims that the use of Android by its Nook e-reader… Read More
Microsoft vs. i4i at U.S. Supreme Court: Future of patent law at stake Microsoft and i4i L.P., a small Canadian tech company, will square off this morning in oral arguments before the U.S.… Read More
Priceline founder Jay Walker pulls a Paul Allen, sues nearly every big name in tech Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen surprised many in the tech industry last summer when he sued some of the biggest names… Read More
Seattle startup Dashwire inks licensing deal with Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Dashwire is a small mobile software company. But the Seattle upstart still has to worry about patent issues, and because… 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
How Microsoft would get people to watch commercials Today’s nomination for Wackiest Microsoft Idea of the Week is a newly surfaced U.S. patent application with this head-scratching title:… Read More
Google: Microsoft’s Android claims ‘threaten innovation’ Google itself hasn’t yet been named as a defendant in any of Microsoft’s patent litigation over Android, but the search… Read More
Google gets ‘Doodles’ patent Google was awarded a patent today on something known in intellectual-property lingo as “Systems and methods for enticing users to… Read More
The patents Microsoft is using to sue Barnes & Noble Just how many anti-Android patents does Microsoft have up its sleeve? In reading through the Redmond company’s lawsuit this afternoon… Read More
DOJ review of Microsoft patent buy delays Novell deal The U.S. Justice Department is taking longer than expected to review the sale of 882 patents by Novell to a… Read More
Suit vs. Amazon puts cloud over popular search trick The idea of suggesting possible searches in a drop-down box while a user types is far from unique to Amazon.com.… Read More
Microsoft idea: Dating service for people with a ‘source of shame’ … like comic books A newly surfaced Microsoft patent filing proposes an online matchmaking service that would have users confidentially tell the system about… Read More
