Patent

Intel hands over nearly 5,000 patents in deal with IP management outfit

Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties

Legal15 Aug 2022 | 12

Tech industry stuck over patent problems with AI algorithms

Lawyers at Google are unsure if they can patent chip floorplans created by machines

AI + ML10 Aug 2022 | 29

Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents

Patent lawsuits, the next saga

Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 33

US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China

Licencing snafu sends American invention overseas

Science04 Aug 2022 | 59

AI-friendly patent law needed 'as a matter of national security', ex-USPTO boss says

Neural network training and whatnot didn't occur to 18th century founders

AI + ML02 Aug 2022 | 32

Is the Apple car real? These patents suggest yes

About 250 automotive applications in two decades – a fraction of what it files in a single year, mind

Personal Tech26 Jul 2022 | 20

AI inventors may find it difficult to patent their tech under today's laws

Comment Why newfangled algorithms could be a headache for examiners

AI + ML09 Jul 2022 | 28

$185m anti-malware patent dispute: Norton and Columbia University fight on

Decade-old spat over security tech not over yet as New York institution files for enhanced damages

Legal04 Jul 2022 | 14

Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents

This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds

Legal17 Jun 2022 | 16

Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets

AI is meant to solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system

Legal09 May 2022 | 13

ITC judge recommends banning toner imports that infringe Canon's IP

Can the US market manage without them? Commission wants to know

Personal Tech18 Mar 2022 | 35

Russia mulls making software piracy legal and patent licensing compulsory

Rule rethink would apply only to those in countries that support sanctions

Applications08 Mar 2022 | 124

Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling

Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama?

Science02 Mar 2022 | 7

Apple seeks patent for 'innovation' resembling the ZX Spectrum, C64 and rPi 400

Cupertino seeks signoff on computer and keyboard in one unit – we've seen that somewhere before …

Personal Tech28 Feb 2022 | 205

European Union takes China to WTO over smartphone patents

Alleges Middle Kingdom's courts make it impossible to chase manufacturers who won't respect IP rights

Legal21 Feb 2022 | 54

Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent

This is why we can't have nice things, potentially

Software17 Feb 2022 | 91

Apple, Broadcom allowed to press Ctrl-Z on billion-dollar Wi-Fi patent payout to Caltech

Appeals court orders do-over for damages calculation

Networks04 Feb 2022 | 31

BlackBerry offloads its 'legacy' patents – some of the stuff that made its phones hum

$600M sale to new owner created and funded just to handle mobile, networking, and messaging IP

Software01 Feb 2022 | 17

Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

And also an import ban

Personal Tech08 Jan 2022 | 60

Nvidia CEO Huang jointly files patent for software tech in the metaverse

The boss isn't too busy to be named

Software10 Dec 2021 | 18

SAP patent not inventive enough to get legal protection, judge rules

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant

Legal16 Nov 2021 | 17

Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor

'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'

AI + ML22 Sep 2021 | 45

Only 'natural persons' can be recognized as patent inventors, not AI systems, US judge rules

Updated This isn't over says man pushing for neural networks' rights

AI + ML04 Sep 2021 | 93

Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive

Legal26 Aug 2021 | 47

Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial

And US trade judge reckons Google ripped off Sonos's tech

Personal Tech14 Aug 2021 | 24

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings

IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls

AI + ML02 Aug 2021 | 55

Facebook granted patent for 'artificial reality' baseball cap. Repeat, an 'artificial reality' baseball cap

Yeah, y'know, Google Glass wasn't nearly obnoxious enough

Bootnotes23 Jun 2021 | 87

US Patent Office to take only DOCX in future – or PDFs if you pay extra

Wow, we finally found a fan of XML

Applications27 May 2021 | 34

Patch me if you can: Microsoft, Samsung, and Google win appeal over patent on remote updating

Iron Oak fails to convince the Feds that Patent Board misinterpreted key phrase in the patent

Legal25 May 2021 | 40

Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off

Picking intellectual property fights with internet backbone biz seldom ends well

Networks26 Apr 2021 | 24

Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London

Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight

Legal16 Apr 2021 | 14

Proof that Surface devices are not a niche product obsessed over by Microsoft fans: A patent lawsuit from Caltech

Well, you wanted to be just like Apple, right?

Networks23 Mar 2021 | 22

Apple stung for $308m in battle over patent used in FairPlay DRM software

'Cases like this... stifle innovation and ultimately harm consumers,' says iGiant

Legal22 Mar 2021 | 21

Intel told by jury to pay $2.18bn to VLSI for ripping off two semiconductor patents

Chipzilla vows to appeal verdict

Legal03 Mar 2021 | 11

Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones

Which? rides to the rescue of consumers and... er... Apple and Samsung?

Legal25 Feb 2021 | 56

Apple on the hook for another $503m in decade-long VirnetX patent rip-off legal marathon

Guess what? It’s going to appeal. Again again. Again. Again

Networks02 Nov 2020 | 22

Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents

Centripetal Networks uses lawsuit against Switchzilla. It's super effective

Networks05 Oct 2020 | 34

Sonos turns patent war with Google up a notch with fresh lawsuit timed to coincide with Pixel, Nest jamboree

Chromecast this, says smart speaker slinger

Personal Tech01 Oct 2020 | 9

Intel, Apple, Cisco, Google sue US Patent Office – Tech police, open up!

Silicon Valley heavyweights demand access to review boards that can shoot down trolls just ahead of trial

Science02 Sep 2020 | 13

RIP: NetApp Advanced Technology Group shuffles off this mortal coil

The 'ideas factory' falls victim to latest round of corporate penny-pinching

Storage28 Aug 2020 | 4

Supreme Court rules against Huawei in long-rolling Unwired Planet patent sueball: Take the licence terms we set or else

British courts can set global royalty rates for foreign firms

Networks26 Aug 2020 | 19

Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents

Famed IP holder pops champers as Cupertino plots appeal

Networks12 Aug 2020 | 30

UK formally abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court, Germany plans to move forward nevertheless

Analysis But will the UPC be legal – or even worthwhile – without Britain?

Science21 Jul 2020 | 122

You've accused Apple of patent infringement. You want to probe the iOS source in a closed-room environment. What to do in a pandemic?

Judge lays out rules from one-time passwords to window snooping

Software30 Jun 2020 | 23

Speaker for yourself: Looks like 5 patents are table stakes as Google countersues Sonos

You copied our technology! No, YOU copied our technology!

Personal Tech12 Jun 2020 | 18

Find your wallet, Apple: Ex-engineer adds eight more patents to lawsuit seeking credit for his developer work

Judge calls for settlement conference as fourth amended complaint filed

Personal Tech06 May 2020 | 32

Caltech to Apple, Broadcom: You know that $1.1bn you owe for ripping off Wi-Fi patents? Double it, hotshots

US uni goes full honey badger on iPhone giant and its chip sidekick

Personal Tech04 May 2020 | 10

I'm doing this to stop humans ripping off brilliant ideas by computers and aliens, says guy unsuccessfully filing patents 'invented' by his AI

Bloke tells all to El Reg after US, Euro officials say only 'natural' people can be patent inventors

AI + ML29 Apr 2020 | 64

Patently dogged: Apple unleashes lawyers to slash $454m patent rip-off bill – even after Supreme Court snub

Will literally argue anything to tie up VirnetX lawyers for a bit longer

Science28 Apr 2020 | 19

Germany says nein to Euro Unified Patent Court, pulls plug and leaves it nearby if anyone wants to put it back in

Top court says UPC was not properly approved but only on a technicality

Science23 Mar 2020 | 17

Theranos vampire lives on: Owner of failed blood-testing biz's patents sues maker of actual COVID-19-testing kit

Updated And 3D-printed valve for breathing machine sparks legal threat

Science18 Mar 2020 | 120

Apple grudgingly opens up its check book, pays VirnetX $454m in patent royalties after a decade of wrangling

Loss of Face time

Personal Tech16 Mar 2020 | 27

Brexit Britain changes its mind, says non, nein, no to Europe's unified patent court – potentially sealing its fate

+Comment UK.gov decision to back out of UPC smacks of ideology over commonsense

Science04 Mar 2020 | 125

Startup Mycroft AI declares it will fight 'patent troll' tooth and nail after its Linux voice-assistant attracts lawsuit

Updated OK Google, a little help here?

AI + ML12 Feb 2020 | 41

Guess we have to do this the Huawei then: Verizon sued by Chinese giant for allegedly ripping off patented tech

So hard to pick a side when it's the Hannibal Lecter and Charles Manson of technology going toe to toe

Networks06 Feb 2020 | 22

Caltech takes billion-dollar bite out of Apple, Broadcom for using its patented Wi-Fi tech without paying a penny

Knock knock knock: Give us the money! Knock knock knock: Give us the money!

Networks30 Jan 2020 | 26