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Steve Ballmer's Prophecy Comes True: Former Microsoft Execs Sue Red Hat,...

Jon writes in to let us know that a small patent holding firm, IP Innovation, has sued Red Hat and Novell over patent infringement concerning a ridiculously broad patent. As the Groklaw report...

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Acacia's Latest Target: NetFlix

Acacia has become one of the most hated firms by technology companies that actually do stuff. That's because Acacia is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) firms out there in the business of buying...

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Acacia's Latest: You Sue Some, You Lose Some

Acacia, one of the larger and more well known patent hoarding firms, has followed in the footsteps of other recent lawsuits where the patent holder sues a bunch of companies at once. The general...

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Giving An Allowance Patented: Acacia Sues Apple

Acacia is a well known patent hoarder, who buys up or licenses various unused patents and sets up subsidiaries who do nothing but sue companies in the market who actually make products. The latest...

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Patent Battles Make It That Much More Difficult To Keep People Healthy

The problem with the view that patents should be given out for every little improvement (most of which would have come about naturally thanks to market demand) is that you end up with "patent...

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Court Invalidates Key Patent Claims In Acacia's Streaming Media Patent

The EFF's painfully slow patent busting project keeps on seeing success -- even if it's taking forever. The number one patent on the list was Acacia's streaming media patent, that was brought to court...

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Here's A Surprise: Red Hat Wins Patent Lawsuit In East Texas

It's so rare that we post about a good patent ruling coming out of East Texas that it seems worth highlighting that they do happen. The latest is that Red Hat won after being sued by a patent hoarder,...

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Red Hat Settles Patent Case With Acacia... But Won't Share The Details

Of the software companies out there, Red Hat has been the most aggressive in fighting against software patents. It's stood up on principle, and earlier this year even won a lawsuit from one of...

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The 'Other' One-Click Patent Holder Sues Apple, Paypal... And Victoria's Secret

A couple years ago, we wrote about how Amazon, holder of the extremely infamous "one-click patent," had been sued by another firm, Cordance, claiming to hold a one-click patent. About a year and a...

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Acacia Buys Up More Smartphone Apps Patents: Watch The Patent Thicket Get Worse

Last year, I put together a graphic highlighting the ridiculous nature of the smartphone patent thicket: That graphic is both incomplete and out of date. It's incomplete in that it doesn't even show...

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That Didn't Take Long: Amazon Sued For Patent Infringement For New Kindle...

The general rule continues to prove itself true: do anything interesting in the tech world, and you will get sued for patent infringement. Just weeks after Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire tablet,...

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Empirical Evidence Of Just How Much Patent Trolling Hinders Innovation

Over at Slate, Ray Fisman has an excellent article discussing some recent research on how patent trolling hinders innovation. Much of the story focuses on the research of Catherine Tucker at MIT,...

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Early Inventor Of Streaming Video Wants To Help Fight Off Video Streaming...

TasMot points us to a recent blog post by Jacques Mattheij, who developed one of the earliest, if not the earliest version of browser-based streaming video back in 1995, about his experience with...

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Steve Ballmer's Prophecy Comes True: Former Microsoft Execs Sue Red Hat,...

Jon writes in to let us know that a small patent holding firm, IP Innovation, has sued Red Hat and Novell over patent infringement concerning a ridiculously broad patent. As the Groklaw report...

View Article

Acacia's Latest Target: NetFlix

Acacia has become one of the most hated firms by technology companies that actually do stuff. That's because Acacia is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) firms out there in the business of buying...

View Article


Acacia's Latest: You Sue Some, You Lose Some

Acacia, one of the larger and more well known patent hoarding firms, has followed in the footsteps of other recent lawsuits where the patent holder sues a bunch of companies at once. The general...

View Article

Giving An Allowance Patented: Acacia Sues Apple

Acacia is a well known patent hoarder, who buys up or licenses various unused patents and sets up subsidiaries who do nothing but sue companies in the market who actually make products. The latest...

View Article


Patent Battles Make It That Much More Difficult To Keep People Healthy

The problem with the view that patents should be given out for every little improvement (most of which would have come about naturally thanks to market demand) is that you end up with "patent...

View Article

Court Invalidates Key Patent Claims In Acacia's Streaming Media Patent

The EFF's painfully slow patent busting project keeps on seeing success -- even if it's taking forever. The number one patent on the list was Acacia's streaming media patent, that was brought to court...

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Here's A Surprise: Red Hat Wins Patent Lawsuit In East Texas

It's so rare that we post about a good patent ruling coming out of East Texas that it seems worth highlighting that they do happen. The latest is that Red Hat won after being sued by a patent hoarder,...

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