Judge Richard Posner tried to put a stop to silly patent lawsuits over smartphones. Unfortunately, the country’s patent court — which has helped to create many patent problems in the first… 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 »
Boston University claims that Microsoft, BlackBerry and many other technology companies are violating the same patent it used to sue Apple earlier this summer. Read more »
What happens if a company has a standards-essential patent and doesn’t play nice with it? A federal judge explained why a $14.5 million jury award is reasonable punishment. Read more »
A Seattle jury awarded Microsoft $14.5 in damages after Motorola reportedly failed to license standards-essential patents on reasonable terms. Read more »
Patent pugilist Microsoft(s msft) is back in court today to argue that rival Motorola(s goog) breached its obligation to license standards-essential smartphone patents on reasonable terms. Noted IP Prof Mark Lemley… Read more »
The FTC and Google have reached a final deal over the alleged abuse of the FRAND patents that the search giant acquired from Motorola in 2011. Read more »
A US judge yesterday threw aside a much-anticipated trial between Apple and Google-owned Motorola Mobility over smartphone patents. The decision and a blog comment by the same judge could prove to… Read more »
The US government and the European Commission today gave the green light to Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobil… Read more »