A patent from 2011 has emerged that shows Nokia's ideas for a kickstand-enabled case for a tablet, similar to the Touch Cover (or Type Cover) of the Surface. Nokia's tablet ambitions have been halted. More...
Microsoft has been granted a patent for the design of its Surface Touch Cover by the US Patent and Trademark Office, following patents for the Surface tablet itself. More...
Microsoft has been awarded a patent that centers on new force feedback technology that could allow people to experience hugs and handshakes from a person thousands of miles away. More...
A newly published patent application from Microsoft shows a design for a set of glasses that would show people some additional information while they watch a live event. More...
A newly discovered patent application from Microsoft shows a proposal for new hardware that would support hitting or "whacking" a smartphone in order to silence the device. More...
A patent application from Nokia that appeared on the US Patent & Trademark Office site a couple of days ago may reveal the design behind one of the company's Windows Phone 8 Lumia handsets. More...
A judge in Germany has ruled that Motorola's Android-based smartphones are now banned for sale in that country due to the phones infringing on one of Microsoft's patents. More...
A patent application from Microsoft has been discovered for a technology called "control-based content pricing," which would essentially set different prices for different functions on the TV remote. More...
The Android-based smartphone company Pantech could be next in line to sign a patent deal with Microsoft that could give Microsoft a percentage of Pantech's product sales. More...
A newly discovered patent application from Microsoft could lead to the development of software that would detect the habits, good and bad, of employees at the workplace. More...
Three-dimensional user interfaces are nothing new - to the crowd that dares to try the first experiments of moving away from the traditional flat desktop metaphor. They haven't gone far, unfortunately. One of the more... More...
VirnetX a software company that owns patents for Virtual Private Networking (VPN) technology sued Microsoft for infringing on its patents. Microsoft will now settle the suit for $200 million according to InformationWeek. VirnetX claimed Microsoft... More...
Backweb, an Israeli company which creates communications acceleration software based on Push technology for the Web, intranets and extranets has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Microsoft Windows Update feature infringes on Backweb's... More...
When not threatening to sue Linux makers, Microsoft can't help itself from partnering with them. Redmond today announced a buddy-buddy deal with desktop Linux maker Linspire. We'd call it a stretch to say that anyone... More...
Vertical Computer Systems Incorporated filed a suit on April 18 in a U.S. District Court in Texas against Microsoft Corporation for patent infringement related to Microsoft's .Net framework, used for building Windows-based software. Vertical alleges... More...
A federal judge in San Diego has ruled against a handful of defenses presented by Microsoft Corp. in a patent trial that saw a $1.5 billion jury decision delivered against the company in February. The... More...
While the U.S. courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT (File Allocation Table) patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany. According to a report in the German news publication... More...
The Supreme Court will intervene in a patent dispute between Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas that contain AT&T "speech codecs". An appeals court had already ruled that Microsoft had infringed... More...
Although there were no Xbox 2 announcements at last year's E3, a few tidbits regarding the next generation hardware were revealed by an effusive J Allard. In an interview with CVG, Allard talked about the... More...
A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with whether to overturn or uphold a lower court's $565 million judgment against Microsoft in the biggest patent dispute in Web history. The U.S. Court... More...
Microsoft's attempt to create a lucrative future revenue stream from its patent portfolio has tripped at the first hurdle. After an appeal, the US Patent Office has struck down Microsoft's '517 patent (USPTO 5,579, 517)... More...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to a request that it reexamine a patent granted to Microsoft covering the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system used in Windows. A... More...
Microsoft's patent for the FAT file system - the basis for the company's first salvo in its licensing offensive - is to be reviewed by the US Patent Office, at the request of a free... More...
Microsoft is paying Sun Microsystems $1.95 billion as part of a deal signed last week--but Sun could gain as much as $450 million more over the next 10 years through a patent provision in the... More...
AT&T Corp. asked a jury to award it at least $90 million in damages from Microsoft Corp., as a patent dispute over technology to speed Internet transmissions of human voices went to trial in New... More...
InterTrust, which makes software that protects songs and videos from being illegally copied, alleges (jn it's second patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft) that Microsoft infringed on its patent for technology that certifies and authenticates drivers.... More...