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Network Associates patents anti-spam technology
News The United States Patent and Trademark Office approved the patent, a sweeping grant for Network Associates' methods and systems used within its McAfee anti-spam products. Security software company Network Associates said this week that it has been...
[June 3, 2004, 9:20]
Patent Impending
News Richard Stallman, the well-known Free Software guru, once compared developing software to writing a symphony -- with the difference that if there were a musical patent office, Beethoven would have found himself out of work.
[August 27, 2003, 9:34]
Nonsense
Talkback That said, the US patent office grants patents on perpetual motion machines all the time. You *can* get a patent for a free energy device. Nonsense. All you have to do is to show them a working model.
[April 15, 2007, 2:17]
Microsoft hit by $388m patent verdict
News A federal jury in Rhode Island found that Windows XP, Office XP and Windows Server 2003 infringed on a Uniloc patent. Microsoft on Wednesday was hit with a $388m (£265m) verdict in a long-running patent-infringement case.
[April 9, 2009, 9:48]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
News Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark...
[March 9, 2005, 14:40]
Apple patent covers wireless iTunes distribution
News The application, spotted by Macsimum News, was published on Thursday on the Web site of the US Patent and Trademark Office. A patent application filed by Apple Computer in December 2004 appears to cover a method of buying a song, ring tone or music...
[May 5, 2006, 13:00]
Microsoft patents 'HTML applications'
News Microsoft was awarded on Tuesday a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, so making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer. According the application, the patent (no.covers...
[December 10, 2003, 11:30]
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News The patent was submitted in February last year but was spotted in the US Patent & Trademark office's electronic filings and posted at Slashdot on Saturday. The search giant has filed a patent for a 'floating datacentre' that uses wave motion to...
[September 9, 2008, 10:08]
Google patent filing reveals wireless vision
News Earlier this week, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application describing Google's vision of an open wireless network where smartphones aren't tied to any single mobile phone network.
[September 29, 2008, 15:02]
Patent and event reignite iPhone rumours
News Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March, for a "multifunctional handheld device", that can switch between a music player, phone or PDA, among other things, using a touchscreen with "at...
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
BlackBerry may soon come a cropper
Leader The news today that one patent claim against the company has been rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office should come as small solace to RIM and its customers. Delays in shipments of the BlackBerry devices that provide access to its services...
[December 2, 2005, 14:30]
Apple files for DRM system akin to Microsoft
News Now Apple has updated a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office called "Run-time Code Injection to Perform Checks". Apple has filed an updated patent application for a technology that would give it control over its software that...
[December 24, 2007, 12:15]
Napster and friends under fire
News Lehman helped author the laws that govern music, video and other digital media distribution when he ran the US Patent and Trademark Office in the mid-1990s. Bruce Lehman thinks the digital copyright laws he helped write are in trouble, and it's...
[January 29, 2001, 8:52]
IBM adds voice to patent reform calls
News Jim Stallings, vice-president, intellectual property and standards, launched an attack on the current patent process, arguing the methods adopted by the United States Patent Office (USPO) are flawed. We're open to sharing information about the...
[April 11, 2005, 17:00]
Lobbyists prepare for next software patent battle
News Although this consultation does not mention software patents directly, there are fears that the Community Patent legislation could ratify the European Patent Office's current practice of granting software patents.
[January 23, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft claims patent on web feeds
News The pair of applications were made public by the US Patent and Trademark Office for what appears to be the first time on Thursday, following the expiration of a requisite 18-month window in which applications are generally kept secret.
[December 22, 2006, 8:22]
Google faces fight for Gmail
News The search giant is fourth in line to be considered for ownership of the trademark name, Gmail, according to filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Because the office considers applications in the order they were filed, Google could be...
[August 16, 2004, 9:00]
Unique solutions present unique problems
Leader There are patent infringement claims against Research In Motion that could close the US system down next, even though those patents have been practically dismissed by the patent office. After all, details of usability and feature sets have little...
[January 24, 2006, 14:35]
Copyright in a new light
Blog Comment SB&MB: Thomas Jefferson, who was originally so opposed to patents that he didn't apply for them for his own inventions, changed his mind after seeing that more inventions were published because of the patent office
[December 30, 2009, 9:44]
Patents a virtue for IBM
News Big Blue was awarded 3,288 patents during the past year, making it the top recipient among private sector companies for the 10th year in a row, according to the US Patent and Trademark Office. Big Blue, which spent $5.5bn (about £3.5bn) on research...
[January 13, 2003, 7:44]
