A class action complaint says Google uses secret deals to force Samsung and others to make its search engine the default choice on mobile devices, which in turn harms consumers by… Read more »
The king of the patent trolls is raising new money to expand its trolling activities but this time Apple, which is tired of trolls, has declined to fund it. Read more »
Until last week, Google and other tech companies were under gag orders that forbade them from disclosing how often they have had to turn customer information over to the National Security… Read more »
A closer look at Google’s purchase and sale of Motorola shows the final price of the deal was around $4 billion for a big patent portfolio. That’s a reasonable price to… Read more »
Google, Microsoft and others won a concession from the US Government on Monday in a bitter fight over the tech companies’ right to disclose how many requests they receive under a… Read more »
Google rivals formed a group called Rockstar in 2011 to buy old patents from bankrupt Nortel. The group started by suing Android phone makers, but it now looks like it plans… Read more »
A conspiracy theory is not enough to force corporations to pay up in a lawsuit. One law firm found this out the hard way in a failed case over a patent… Read more »
Microsoft and its allies delivered a big blow to a plan to fix the software patent mess. Here’s an account of what happened and why forces in the Senate could still… Read more »
Google, Microsoft and others are fighting to lift gag orders that prevent them from disclosing the number of surveillance requests they receive — but the FBI won’t even show them the… Read more »
The mobile patent wars, which appeared to be dying down, just exploded like never before. It’s too soon to say if Google or its rivals will win, but one thing is… Read more »