Through a royalties deal with Samsung, HTC, LG and more, Microsoft are making an estimated $8 from every Android device sold, putting revenue in 2013 at $3.4b. This could increase to $9b in 2017. More...
A judge has finally ruled that Microsoft no longer has to pay $4 billion a year to Motorola for patents, instead deeming them to be Standard Essential patents licensed at a non-discriminatory rate. More...
Google subsidiary Motorola has lost an appeal on the injunction that was placed on the company by a court in Germany in 2012 over a patent owned by Microsoft concerning multi-part text messages. More...
Microsoft has signed yet another smartphone hardware company, ZTE, to a patent license deal that gives Microsoft a little money for every Android device ZTE sells. More...
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...
Google have said that anyone can use their software patents, as long as they use them fairly. This comes after many claim the patent system - especially for software - is "broken" and needs reforming. 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 granted a patent for the design of its Surface tablet by the US Patent and Trademark Office, along with other patents related to the UI design for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. More...
A German court ruled today that Google's Android operating system does not infringe on any patents that are owned by Nokia in a case that the phone maker leveled against HTC. More...
A newly uncovered patent suggests that Google Glass is going to receive an update that allows for binocular vision, instead of just one lens, increasing the use for Glass tenfold. More...
Microsoft has announced that camera maker Nikon has signed an agreement with Microsoft that allows Nikon to use patents owned by Microsoft in its Android-based cameras. More...
Sony and Red Digital Cinema are lawyering up over allegations of patent infringement, with two patents in particular coming under scrutiny, amid calls for the infringing products to be destroyed. More...
Nokia's phone designs always seem to be found among US Design Patents, and the most recent is no exception. The D675587 patent contains a phone with some striking similarities to another Nokia model. More...
Apple has made the iPhone brand a household name but if you happen to live in Brazil, Apple will no longer be able to sell its phone under that moniker after a losing a battle in court. More...
Microsoft is being sued by a company called Surfcast for their use of "live tiles" in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 . The date of the suit has been set for September 3rd later this year. More...
Don't want to disturb other patrons in a cinema while using your smartphone? Perhaps Microsoft's patent application describing an "inconspicuous mode" for phones would appeal to you More...
In a new filing with the U.S. International Trade Commission, Microsoft claims that Google's settlement with the FTC last week should mean that Microsoft's legal fight with Motorola should end. More...
Samsung won't be selling its Galaxy S III Mini smartphone in the US and as a result Apple will keep the smartphone from being included in the companies' current patent battle. More...
Research in Motion will pay Nokia $65 million in its first transfer of money as part of its recently announced patent license agreement that ended their legal fight. 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...
It's been very quiet on the Patent Wars front the past few weeks, with very little noise made since the Apple/HTC deal. But now Apple has been found guilty of infringing three MobileMedia patents. More...
Microsoft has announced today that it has signed patent agreements with two vendors out of Europe who are currently selling Android based products; these new agreements go into effect immediately. More...
Nokia is currently in a dispute with RIM over patents relating to Wi-Fi connectivity and wants all BlackBerries to be banned in the UK, US and Canada, if BlackBerry is found guilty. 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 new patent from Microsoft hints at using Kinect to monitor how many people are viewing and interacting with content, then charging higher licensing fees for more viewers. More...
Judge Barbara Crabb has binned a case between Apple and Motorola Mobility over the licensing of patents for use in iOS devices, with both companies willing to continue to negotiate on pricing. More...
A patent granted in the US to Nokia just a few days ago shows a device virtually identical to a Windows Phone seen in a video leaked last year - could this be Nokia's next Lumia handset? More...
Microsoft is going to court again with Motorola in Germany, claiming that the smartphone division of Google is in violation of one of Microsoft's mapping patents. More...
In a court case in Germany earlier today, it was ruled that Google-owned Motorola isn't infringing on a Microsoft patent that "enabled applications to work on different handsets." 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...
First Apple wins in the US court, forcing Samsung to pay over $1 billion in damages to Apple. Now the Japanese legal system has favoured Samsung, saying that they didn't infringe Apple patents. More...
Are Google's Larry Page and Apple's Tim Cook having secret discussions about the patent issues between the two companies? According to several anonymous sources, the answer is yes. More...
In April, AOL announced that Microsoft would be purchasing a number of their patents. Now, in the midst of a very public patent row in the US courts, the AOL/Microsoft deal has been completed. More...
Mark Cuban, longtime technology entrepreneur, has taken shots at both the U.S. patent system and Apple on his Twitter account following the verdict in the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit. 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...
An Apple patent which has only just come to light seems to indicate that the company could change how buyers interact with radio, allowing them to skip ads or ignore them in most situations. More...
For all their rhetoric against Android, Apple was open to licensing its iOS patents to Samsung as far back as 2010, according to new evidence from the patent trial between the two tech giants. More...
A recently revealed patent application from Microsoft shows that the company is exploring how to use its Kinect hardware as a movie creation tool, including the making of a virtual room. More...
Microsoft has announced it has signed a new Android and Chrome OS-based patent deal with Honeywell, the same day Honeywell announced its first Android-based product. 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 new patent application from Apple has surfaced that shows a hardware game controller, remarkably similar to Sony's DualShock controllers, that will connect wirelessly to a number of Apple products More...
Microsoft has announced a new patent agreement with the Amdocs concerning the Linux-based servers in its data centers. Specifics of the deal were not disclosed. More...
Just over a month after we reported on the ramifications of an app removal from the App Store, we learn more about the court case at hand and what is to be done for those it most affects. More...
The patent suits keep coming for Apple in China. This time, Zhizhen Network Technology is suing Apple for infringing on its patent for an instant messaging chat bot system, and the culprit is Siri. More...
HTC just won a patent battle against Apple in the UK. A judge ruled that Apple's "slide to unlock" patent is invalid and in fact was stolen from another device, the Neonode N1, released back in 2004. More...
Nokia claims that the newly revealed Google Nexus 7 tablet uses some of Nokia's patents and that neither Google nor the tablet's maker Asus have signed a license to use Nokia's patents. More...
A few days after a judge granted Apple's request for a US sales injunction on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, the same judge has made a similar motion for Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone. More...
Patent holding companies, known as 'trolls' for their business practices, are costly to fight legal battles against. A recent academic paper attempts to put a cost on the losses these trolls create. More...
Late last night, Judge Posner dismissed the case of Apple v Motorola with prejudice. His judgement says a lot of the things people on the Internet have been saying since day one and is a fun read. More...
Motorola has issued a settlement proposal to Microsoft regarding the two companies' ongoing patent disputes. Microsoft's wondered if the proposal is even serious, however. More...