Patents

Patent battle goes Cupertino's way.

Yesterday a Spanish court threw out Apple's 2010 lawsuit against tablet maker, Nuevas Tecnologias y Energias Catala (NT-K). The relatively tiny...

Hey, you can be friends with someone and still have quarrels with them. For instance, Larissa Anderson thinks "Night Moves" is the world's worst...

Google = Pac Man. Patents = little white pellets. Google's hope = some of those patents are the big blinking white pellets. Everyone Google's...

If you know you are going to get the tuna salad sued out of you by bringing an Android device to market - other operating systems start looking a...

Apple isn't sitting on its hands in the mobile patent wars. It just sued Samsung in Japan.It's sued HTC. It's blocked the Samsung from selling its...

HTC, the fifth largest smartphone maker (George Martin... Billy Preston... Brian Epstein?), has amended an existing lawsuit against Apple claiming...

Amazon has been awarded a patent for a new way to return unwanted gifts. The current system is pretty cumbersome: you have to repackage the ugly...

Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on patent reform. The weeds are tall on this one. If you're not a lawyer, and I'm not,...