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 »
IBM wants Twitter to license patents that date from the 1990s, one of which includes a floppy disk illustration. Twitter, which has a history of advocating for patent reform, believes it… Read more »
As Twitter prepares for its IPO, some points to its paucity of patents as a sign of long term strategic weakness. In fact, the opposite may be true. Read more »
Win or lose, it usually doesn’t cost a lot for patent trolls to bring spurious lawsuits against companies and technologists. In this guest post, Ben Lee of Twitter argues that it’s… Read more »
You’ve heard this one before: a lawyer obtains a spurious patent and demands a major company to pay him handsomely for infringing it. This t… Read more »
John Desmarais is famous in patent law circles for obtaining a $1.5 billion verdict against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in 2007 and, more recentl… Read more »