How Chicago Is Beating Silicon Valley At The Patent Game
Silicon Valley leads the world in technology but it’s losing a debate over how that technology should be used. A new surge in patent lawsuit… Read more »
Goliath vs. Goliath: Patent Beast Intellectual Ventures Sues AT&T
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A controversial investment fund run by a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive just added more fuel to the tech industry’s runaway patent… Read more »
Google To 'Support' Android OEMs Facing Lawsuits As LG Makes A Deal With IV
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Some heartening news for Android device makers today from the mouth of Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will continue to… Read more »
Intellectual Ventures Piles On Motorola’s Patent Woes With Another Lawsuit
Intellectual Ventures reminded the mobile world Thursday that it too would like to collect an Android tax. The patent-holding company filed… Read more »
New Intellectual Ventures Suit Seeks Payment From Chipmakers
Intellectual Ventures, the world’s biggest patent-holding company, has sued a second set of companies, claiming its giant cache of intellect… Read more »
Intellectual Ventures Strikes Patent-Licensing Deal With Micron
Patent-holding giant Intellectual Ventures has struck a deal with Micron Technology, one of the largest makers of memory chips for computers… Read more »
Giant Patent-Holder Intellectual Ventures’ Investors Revealed In Court
Intellectual Ventures (IV) is one of the largest patent-holders in the country, and claims to hold more than 30,000 patents to its name. It… Read more »
Intellectual Ventures Gets Another Patent Licensee: Dashwire
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Intellectual Ventures has found another licensee for its trove of mobile patents, signing a deal with mobile Web services company Dashwire i… Read more »
RIM Signs On With Intellectual Ventures For Its Patent Portfolio
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RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the… Read more »
Secretive Company Sues The Cable Industry, Claiming It Owns Patents On VOD
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Back in November, a little-known Virginia company named Pragmatus AV sued Facebook, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), LinkedIn, and Photobucket over pat… Read more »
