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cnetnews.com: “Microsoft has accused TiVo of illegally using video purchasing and delivery technology in its digital video recorders, . . . Microsoft filed suit against the DVR maker on Tuesday for infringing on two Microsoft patents as a way of defending its partner, AT&T, which is currently involved in a legal dispute with [...] Bloomberg: “Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, is preparing to alter its popular Word software after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian firm. The company, based in Redmond, Washington, was given until Jan. 11 to make the change or stop sales, in a decision [...] Wall St. Journal: “No, you shouldn’t be able to patent a ‘method of speed dating.’ The Supreme Court last week became Exhibit A for the case that technological change is fast outpacing the ability of government to deal with it. . . . During the oral argument in last week’s case, Bilski and [...] Wall St. Journal: “To us, there’s something oddly comforting when the Supreme Court justices all appear on the same page in a case; when Justice Scalia’s comments echo Justice Breyer’s, which, in turn, echo Chief Justice Roberts’s. If all these big brains see a case the same way, we tend to think, they [...] Wall St. Journal: “At long last, business-method patents will have their moment in the spotlight. The Supreme Court on Monday will take up the issue, holding arguments in the In Re Bilski case, which has been on our radar screen for nearly two years.” Boston Globe: “Phoenix Media/Communications, which owns The Boston Phoenix and other local alternative weeklies and websites, is suing popular social networking site Facebook for allegedly violating a patent related to setting up online personal profile pages.” Wall St. Journal: “The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new chief has kicked off an effort to overhaul the patent-application process, seeking to fix the backlogged and financially strapped agency and help the Obama administration earn some good will with the business community. On Thursday, Director David Kappos scrapped controversial rules that would [...] A real-life story about how a big company with a lot of money threatened a small start-up company with patent infringement. The other day, I received a phone call from a friend who has been building a kick-ass startup. That friend had been contacted by a much larger competitor with what amounted [...] Paice LLC holds patents that Toyota hybrids may infringe. Paice has requested the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate its allegations. The ITC has the power to block infringing goods. (Bloomberg) Bloomberg.com: “Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest maker of computer software, won a ruling that throws out a $388 million jury verdict over a patent on software used to deter piracy. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, yesterday [September 29, 2009] vacated the April verdict. The jury had found that Microsoft [...] Red Hat has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court brief) in the Supreme Court appeal of In Re Bilski, which turned back the clock on software patents. InformationWeek October 2, 2009 09:43 AM Early last month, Judge Leonard Davis of the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas permanently ordered Microsoft to stop selling WORD 2003 and 2007 because he found this software to infringe the patent of a Canadian company, i4i. The patent in question, U.S. Patent 5,787,494, covers certain processing of XML files, which are at [...] |
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