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Google vs. Microsoft Isn’t Just a Battle of Products, But a Battle of Ideas
It’s not often that multibillion-dollar tech companies take to the internet to throw elbows at each other, at least without hiring outside PR to do it on the sly. Watching it unfold in public is a...
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When Startups Fail, Investors Recoup by Selling Patents
We usually talk about software patents when big tech companies sue each other or start talking trash on their blogs. I think we don’t always realize how much the growth of software and business process...
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Has the Patent Game Changed? Just Ask Kodak
The intellectual property hustle used to be so simple: purer, even. Patent holders extracted licensing fees, lump-sum settlements or cross-licensing agreements from nonholders, who paid up to avoid...
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Samsung Takes a Bite out of Apple Down Under
Samsung and Apple have been doing a little kangaroo boxing in Australian courts these past few months, and Wednesday Samsung landed a haymaker when an appeals court overturned a ban on sales of their...
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A Bankrupt Kodak Signals A Patent Bubble Burst
Eastman Kodak fought hard to avoid bankruptcy. New products, layoffs, lawsuits: in the end, none of it was enough. Early Thursday morning, the Rochester-based company announced it would voluntarily...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook in a Web Patent Shakedown
Shots have been fired in Silicon Valley. Yahoo has taken aim at Facebook, pitting a former internet titan against the social network behemoth over what has become the biggest open-fire range in the...
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Markets | Unlocking Cellphones Means Unlocking Innovation (Really)
Phone unlocking ought to be an important part of the American innovation-by-tinkering story. The government should not be in the position of picking winners and losers.
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