Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to end their long-running patent feud over smartphones and video game systems, dropping about 20 lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany. The two companies, which didn’t disclose financial terms, have been litigating over technology innovations for five years….
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A new patent from Google published today has some fascinating insight into how the company thinks that production of self-driving cars of the future might take control from the drivers they’re shuttling around — and how they could give it back, too. The description of…
Read MoreGlasses have a habit of not staying put. They slide down your nose, and you have to push them back, then they slide back down again—it’s an unending game of cat-and-mouse that gets even worse if you’re doing anything remotely active, like running. A new…
Read MoreSamsung Electronics is an innovation laboratory and the company is really good at its continuous effort to provide technology that will improve the current state of life today. So, it is in no way surprising to hear that the South Korea-born megacompany is leading the tech industry…
Read MoreA federal appeals court has handed Microsoft a win against Google in a long-running lawsuit over patent licensing that was originally filed against Motorola in 2010. A panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court…
Read MoreMicrosoft Corp. won an appeals court ruling that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers. An appeals court in San Francisco Thursday upheld a $14.5 million jury verdict against Google Inc. as punishment for unfairly…
Read MoreSilicon Valley companies rally around Samsung with supporting statement arguing that Apple’s patent litigation is damaging to the industry. Google, Facebook, Dell, HP, eBay and a collection of other large Silicon Valley companies have sided with Samsung in its battle over patents with Apple. The…
Read MorePretty soon, the human capability to forget will be a thing of the past. The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted Google Inc. the patent for a device that will capture and store every second of every day for the rest of your life….
Read MoreWe all knew Apple (AAPL) and Samsung’s patent war would never end. And, you know what, it hasn’t. Last May, a federal appeals court overturned about 40 percent of the $930 million a jury awarded Apple in 2012 resulting from the first of two high-profile, titanic…
Read MoreA federal judge has voided the $532.9 million award that a Texas jury ordered Apple to pay in a patent dispute earlier this year. Apple’s not off the hook, however, with District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ordering a new trial to determine damages after deciding that the jury…
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