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Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim
PTO Requests Working Model of Warp Drive
Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock"
USPTO Rules Fogent JPEG Patent Invalid
IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents
TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd
Burst.com Sues Apple Over Patent Infringement
Google Voice Search May be Coming Soon
Amazon One-Click Patent to be Re-Examined
$400 Million IP Experiment Making Some Nervous
IBM Breaks Patent Record, Wants Reform
Net2phone Sues Skype
Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing
Nintendo Awarded Patent for Instant Messaging
PS2 Controller Suit Goes Badly For Sony
RIM Settles Long-Standing Blackberry Claim
iPod Faces Patent Probe
Creative Sues Apple
Designing a Patent-Incentive Program?
HP Launches Ink Patent Violation Manhunt
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs
Neither Intellectual Nor Property
Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites
Talking iPods
Apple Sues Creative
Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux
Breakpoints have now been patented
Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize
Joystick Port Patented, Now the Lawsuit
Life or Death for Tivo
Paul Graham on Patents
Red Hat Linux Summit Day By Day
SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus
An Argument Against Software Patents
Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth
"Show Us the Code" Breaks Its Silence
A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
A Triple-Standard Disk
Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea
Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards
Athens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes"
Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed
Everyday Copyright Violations
German Police Raid 51 CeBIT Stands Over Patent Claims
Google, Yahoo, Others Sued Over Solitaire Patent
IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent
IBM Patents Putting Handprints On Laptops
Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
MS Seeks Patent On Virtual Fuzzy Dice
Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn"
Microsoft Retracts Patent
Microsoft [to patent] Verb Conjugation
Microsoft, Sue Me First
Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler
Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code
New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music
New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together
New Patent Reform Proposal Focuses on Education
Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap
Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots
Patent Reform Act Proposes Sweeping Changes
Patent Threats In OOXML
RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders
Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement
Slashback: Sidekick Justice, Free WebTV, Office Patent
Streaming Patent Buoys RealNetworks
Student Maps Brain to Image Search
Tim Berners-Lee on the Web
Turbolinux Is Latest To Sign Microsoft Pact
VeriSign Granted a Patent Covering SiteFinder
Vonage and Verizon — Prepare for Round 2
Water From Wind
Why Did Touch Take 4 Decades to Catch On?
Microsoft Patent Envisions Free Computing
Atari, Others, Settle Game Patent Suit
Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux
EU Software Patent War Ignites Again
Eolas COO Says IE Changes A Shame
Firm Sues Sony Over Cell Processor
Friendster Patents Social Networking
GCC 4.2.1 Released
Inventing the Telephone, Independently
MS Proposes JPEG Alternative
Microsoft Is Sued For Patent Violation Over .NET
Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents
Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company
Netflix Sues Blockbuster for Patent Infringement
O'Reilly Lawyers Set Up Shop in the Patent Office
On Software Patent Lawsuits Against OSS
Patent Law Ruling Threatens FOSS
Patent Review via Community Not Wiki-based
Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer
Sony Sued for Blu-Ray Patent Violation
Sony UK Refused P2P Software Patent
Stallman Critical of OSDL Patent Project
The Real Inventor of Wireless Email?
Trusted Or Treacherous Computing?
U.S. Supreme Court Hears eBay Case Wednesday
UK Report Proposes Changes To IP Laws
Vonage Admits They Have No Workaround
Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement
Online Rich Media Patented
The 50 Year History of Play-Doh
A Blackberry Pickpocket Notification System
Apple Settles Creative Lawsuit for $100 Million
European Commission Reverses its Views on Patents
Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You!
NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Sept 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents
US Software Patents Hit Record High
USPTO New Accelerated Review Process
Xeroxing Personal Data From Your Browsing History
Seeking Prior Art Before Filing Patent?
Intel Countersues Transmeta
Lucent Sues Microsoft, Wants All 360s Recalled
RIM Wins Ground in Patent War
Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate ORM Patent Claim
Symantec Sues Microsoft, May Delay Vista
TiVo vs EchoStar - TiVo Wins
Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent
EU Patent Wars to Resume
Hard Drive Imports to be Banned?
Linux Violates 283 Patents, says Insurance Company
Microsoft Seeking to Patent Automatic Censorship
New Patent on TV Forces You to Watch Ads
TiVo Wins Permanent Injunction Against EchoStar
U.S. Bans Some Cellphones For Patent Reasons

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