eBay's patent woes just worsened with a new suit against its PayPal division.
Microsoft has made public over 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the protocols built into its Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 products.
IBM has lodged a patent for a DVD system which places television-like advertisement breaks on DVDs
The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.
Australian government research body CSIRO is standing firm on its claims to Wi-Fi patents and refusing to offer any guarantee it won't sue manufacturers of next generation wireless products.
Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.
Hewlett-Packard buried the hatchet on a long-standing patent dispute with EMC early this month, agreeing to pay $325 million to settle the case.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.
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.
Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
A new m-commerce service has moved to exploit existing bar-code scanning and mobile handset technology, with one of Sydney's premier venues poised to use it to process paying patrons for a forthcoming series of concerts.
Apple have previewed QuickTime Broadcaster, a new addition to the QuickTime product family that allows live broadcasting of events over the Internet.
America Online on Tuesday released an upgrade for its free Winamp multimedia software, and a fee-based "pro" version that encodes songs into MP3s is expected to follow.
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