"patents" news, interviews, and features

News about patents

• The cultural change at IP Australia making data an asset

  "If data is an asset it takes cultural change to see it as an asset," says agency's chief data officer Kevin Jeffery

• Florida man sues Apple for $10 billion for 'stealing' his iPhone invention from 1992

  He's also asking for 1.5 percent of all future iPhone sales—around $3.5 billion per year.

• Samsung and Nvidia make peace by ending their patent lawsuits

  The chip makers have buried the hatchet, with no money changing hands

• Arista countersues Cisco for Antitrust

  Alleges unfair competitive practices on eve of ruling in earlier patent case

• Cisco, Ericsson team up as industry consolidates

  Form broad, strategic partnership while Nokia looks to wrap Alcatel-Lucent merger

• CommandHub gets awarded coveted US patent

  Aims to address critical security weakness in mobile devices

Features about patents

• HTC Android deal could pay off for Microsoft, not Google

  Microsoft might soon extract a royalty on every HTC Android smartphone.

• Apple versus HTC: Show me the patents!

  Most of the patents in question have to do with lower-level operating system functionality, or multitouch gestures