Patent applications are booming, with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) announcing a 4.7 percent year on year growth of applications filed under its patent cooperation treaty -- but questions have been raised over how valuable the filings really are.
In the last two months Microsoft has filed 500 patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Nigerian company Lancor is seeking US$20m from the One Laptop per Child Foundation, alleging patent infringement.
Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.
The US Senate has taken a small step towards overhauling the patent system in a way that would benefit hi-tech companies like Microsoft
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An intellectual property executive warns that few firms will invest in next-generation technologies unless the patent-approval system gets fixed.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
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Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
The chipmaker ventures farther into the market for portable devices with an all-in-one chip for mobile phones, with the promise of richer multimedia features that don't frazzle batteries.
"Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.
'Slow' best describes the speed and sales of the much-touted Segway two-wheeler.
IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.
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