While on the phone congratulating China's new president Xi Jinping on his appointment, President Obama reportedly slipped in some conversation around cyber security and intellectual property theft.
Editor's Pick 3D printing is moving fast, and existing copyright law is having a rough time keeping up.
Guest Post When launching a startup, legal issues often get brushed aside in order for founders to focus on building the product. But making the wrong legal decision early on in the process of starting your company may lead to thorny problems in the future.
Patent analytics firm IP Checkups wants to expose the patent portfolio owned by Intellectual Ventures, one of the largest patent holders in the United States.
It's time to examine the idea of "intellectual property" a little more clearly, especially when patent law dominates business headlines and the outcome of the Apple-Samsung trial holds enormous implications for the tech industry.
Google is reportedly ready to sell of Motorola Mobility's Home & Cable division for an estimated price of $2 billion.
Guest Post When you're neck deep in starting a new business, you may not take the time to properly protect your inventions. Here are five easy tips on how to quickly develop an intellectual property strategy.
At a time when technology companies are spending large sums of money battling it out over patents, a new technology promises to let you know your chances of winning a patent suit before you even start.
Lex Machina is a …
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We now know that patent trolling costs the US economy $30 billion a year, give or take. And patents can effectively be used to stifle competition. What’s an embattled CEO to do when the patent trolls come calling?
Fight like …
After putting the end to Apple’s epic court case against Motorola Mobility, renowned federal appeals court judge Richard Posner is now wondering whether patents for software (and some other industries) should even exist.
In an interview with Reuters, Posner said …
The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they do grind. Who they grind, of course, is another matter.
And whether or not you believe that Kim Dotcom’s file-sharing business MegaUpload was a legal business or a thin front for …
Facebook is learning that money and fame cannot buy you everything. The social network has been thwarted in its aggressive pursuit to sue any company that uses “book” or “face” in its domain name, most recently against a porn site …
Court documents provided by Google show the company made less than $550 million from Android between 2008 and the end of 2011.
These figures pan out to about $10 per Android handset, or roughly $135 million, each year.
iPhones and …
While Americans were busy fighting the SOPA and PIPA bills at home, nations around the globe, including the United States, were signing on to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which many in the world of technology feel is as bad …
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As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better protect members and their copyrighted works.…
By way of the “pin,” accidental thieves have exchanged copyrighted content on digital pin-board site Pinterest. To thwart any lawsuits in the making, the much talked-about startup is giving disgruntled site-owners a way to stop piracy before it starts by …
Apple is no stranger to the patent wars, and today it actually won two disputes in Germany against Motorola Mobility for its “slide to unlock” patent.
It is a familiar tale: one company is mad at the other for infringing …
Intellectual Ventures is suing AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, accusing them of infringing on 14 separate patents. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware today, Intellectual Ventures, a private company that has made a business of producing, collecting, …
A five year-old legal battle between Viacom and Google-owned YouTube over copyrighted content continues to clog up the U.S. court system because Viacom, parent company of Paramount Pictures and MTV, believes there’s an important principle at stake, president and CEO …
Curebit co-founder Allan Grant has posted a public apology to 37signals for stealing its design and code.
Social-referral startup Curebit made the admittedly boneheaded mistake of ripping off design and assets from 37signals, one of the best-known schools of UI …
