Law firm for Edison, Wright brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell now suing Facebook over like buttons

February 11, 2013 9:02 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

"I wouldn't have filed the case if we didn't feel very confident in our position," Melsheimer told me this morning as he was stepping off an airplane in Dallas. "This was a case that I liked, our firm liked, and I think we have a reasonable chance of winning."

Is a patent troll watching your business now?

February 6, 2013 4:47 PM Ray Felts & David DiGiammarino

Guest Post You just invested in a promising startup, e-Widgets. The future looks bright. Suddenly, out of nowhere, e-Widgets gets a certified letter in the mail. The letter claims that the company’s flagship software is infringing on an existing patent. What do you do?

Crowdfunding campaign hopes to help startups steer clear of patent trolls

October 15, 2012 1:14 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

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.

Congress: pass the SHIELD anti-patent-troll bill (pretty please)

August 2, 2012 12:53 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Patent trolls cost the U.S. economy almost $30 billion each year. But now Congress has an opportunity to save that money and help innovators sleep a little better at night.

The SHIELD act – Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal …

Patent Office puts first satellite office in renowned tech hub … Detroit

July 12, 2012 2:43 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

As we all know, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is totally about innovation. Just ask patent trolls like Patent Group LLC or Select Retrieval … or the company they sued, Build.com. Or American entrepreneurs who are redirecting $30 billion …

Who’s a patent troll now? Oracle joins Google and Apple in Lodsys patent fights

June 4, 2012 5:08 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

This one goes in the I’m-not-sure-what-to think category. Oracle, the company that just failed in its attempt to sue Google for violating dubious-sounding patents relating to Java technologies acquired in the Sun takeover, is now suing Lodsys, which has somewhat …

Here are the 10 patents Yahoo is using to sue Facebook (and what they really mean)

March 13, 2012 5:02 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

Editor's Pick

With Facebook getting ready for its IPO, Yahoo has decided to sue over patent infringement. Yahoo used the same tactic against Google in the run up to their IPO, pocketing a helping of the search engine’s pre-IPO shares.

Yahoo’s new …

Yahoo turns patent troll, aims to shake down Facebook for fees in run up to IPO

February 28, 2012 6:27 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

The legal team at Yahoo reached out to Facebook yesterday, at the same time as they were briefing the New York Times, to give the social networking giant the heads up that it would be seeking licensing fees on ten …