Microsoft and Kyocera have settled a dispute over Android patents, and simultaneously entered into a patent cross-licensing arrangement about which no details are available. In March, Microsoft sued Japanese electronics maker Kyocera, alleging Kyocera’s Android phones violated seven Microsoft patents. On July 2, the two…
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US mobile phone operator Sprint has lost a patent battle and been ordered to pay $30 to a company that says it used patents it does not own. Prism Technologies makes money by licensing patents, and has already taken many companies that use them to court….
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Nokia may not sell smartphones anymore, but the company has a solid patent portfolio that LG will now have access to. Nokia is still making money on smartphones — just not its own. Nokia Technologies and LG have agreed to a smartphone patent licensing agreement,…
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The patent — which ensures the design for the Apple Watch cannot be copied by a competitor — was filed in August of last year, just weeks ahead of its unveiling. The Apple Watch’s design is now officially protected by the US Patent and…
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Put this one in the WTF file. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent today for a pair of glasses that can detect a wearer’s emotional response to what they’re looking at. In patent talk, the thing is called a wearable emotion detection and feedback…
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The war of patents just got more intense with Microsoft losing the first round in a battle against InterDigital Inc (ITC case #613) at the International Trade Commission or ITC. United States International judge on Monday found Microsoft guilty under the case of employing InterDigital Inc’s…
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A new patent suggest that Microsoft is thinking a lot about holograms these days. The Patent Office published a new Microsoft patent application today describing the use of floating holograms to guide a user’s gesture control of a computing device. By device, this could mean a…
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(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court appeared skeptical on Wednesday toward Google Inc’s bid to charge Microsoft Corp a high royalty rate to use some of the Internet search provider’s Motorola Mobility patents. Microsoft sued Motorola in 2010, alleging Motorola breached its commitment to license…
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We’ve been keeping an even closer eye than usual on Microsoft’s trademark filings, in part because the company may be getting close to settling on an official name for the “Project Spartan” browser that will ship with Windows 10. It doesn’t look like we’ve uncovered the…
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It’s patent reform season in Congress again, and along with the warming weather comes a new flurry of over-heated concerns about patent trolls, defined by some as “patent owners who file lawsuits rather than make or sell products.” Well, I’m a patent licensor — inventions…
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