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(AP) -- With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software. http://www.physorg.com/news176878623.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:57:46 EST news176878623 South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday it will pay 1.3 billion dollars plus royalties to US wireless chip supplier Qualcomm under a new 15-year licensing deal. http://www.physorg.com/news176622718.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:20:05 EST news176622718 In what it calls a first-of-its-kind study, the nation's leading biotechnology trade group this week put a dollar figure on the value of university-driven research, asserting that economic output grew $187 billion from 1996-2007 through university technology license agreements alone. http://www.physorg.com/news176194900.html Other Sciences Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:02:18 EST news176194900 University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are lashing out at new recommendations from an influential federal panel that could dramatically weaken patent protection for the university's genetic research. http://www.physorg.com/news174490705.html Biology Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:38:59 EST news174490705 A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent. http://www.physorg.com/news174069684.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:41:58 EST news174069684 (AP) -- A federal judge in Rhode Island threw out a $388 million patent infringement jury verdict against Microsoft Corp., the latest move in a six-year legal skirmish. http://www.physorg.com/news173552666.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:30:01 EST news173552666 US computer chip company Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit on Monday against Emulex, two months after dropping a hostile takeover offer for its rival. http://www.physorg.com/news172177039.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:20:01 EST news172177039 (AP) -- A federal appeals court said Friday that Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $358 million for patent infringement because of problems with how the damages were calculated. http://www.physorg.com/news171900691.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:50:01 EST news171900691 A Canadian company in a patent dispute with Microsoft said Friday it expects to ultimately triumph in the case despite a court ruling allowing the US software giant to continue selling Microsoft Word. http://www.physorg.com/news171291349.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:56:43 EST news171291349 (AP) -- The U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit says Microsoft Corp. can keep selling its Word desktop software as it appeals an unfavorable patent ruling. http://www.physorg.com/news171227011.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:20:02 EST news171227011 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nintendo has come up with yet another idea for an accessory to add to its list of Wii peripherals. This time it's a soft football-shaped controller that is said to simulate the feel and touch of a real ball when playing football simulation games such as the NFL game, Madden. http://www.physorg.com/news171096232.html Electronics Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:01 EST news171096232 (AP) -- TiVo Inc. on Wednesday sued AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for patent infringement, including one covering the ability to pause and rewind live TV. http://www.physorg.com/news170604787.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:20:02 EST news170604787 (AP) -- Unlimited domestic phone calls are nearly standard feature for landline plans these days. Now, Vonage Holdings Corp., which helped pioneer that feature with its Internet phone service, is expanding it to most international calls as well. http://www.physorg.com/news169924439.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:14:35 EST news169924439 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling. http://www.physorg.com/news169891717.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:20:02 EST news169891717 Microsoft said Wednesday it plans to appeal a ruling by a Texas judge that would ban the US software giant from selling its popular Word program in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news169297486.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:30:01 EST news169297486 The manicured lawns and carefully sculpted buildings of Huawei's headquarters are a far cry from the sweatshop image of southern China's factory belt. http://www.physorg.com/news169012438.html Technology Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:40:01 EST news169012438 (AP) -- Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that it has received an initial favorable ruling related to its patent fight with TiVo Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news168693497.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:10:03 EST news168693497 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study challenges the traditional view that patents foster innovation, suggesting instead that they may hinder technological progress, economic activity and societal wealth. These results could have important policy implications, because many countries count on patent systems to spur new technology and promote economic growth. http://www.physorg.com/news167929968.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:50:01 EST news167929968 Rapid advances in biology and genetics are raising fresh concerns about the spreading practice of patenting human genes. http://www.physorg.com/news163334329.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:39:25 EST news163334329 (AP) -- Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Spansion Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news162109960.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 07:33:23 EST news162109960 A jury in the US state of Texas ordered US computer software giant Microsoft on Wednesday to pay 200 million dollars to a Canadian company for patent infringement. http://www.physorg.com/news162064236.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 18:51:58 EST news162064236 How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional construction of the smallest ever transistor, the repercussions of Jan Hendrik Schön's fraud are still felt today, seven years after he was found guilty of scientific misconduct and fired by his employer. http://www.physorg.com/news160753850.html Physics Tue, 05 May 2009 14:51:33 EST news160753850 Processing patents is complex and time-consuming. Using semantic web technology, researchers have come up with a powerful tool to process patents faster and better. http://www.physorg.com/news158505577.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:20:40 EST news158505577 Taiwan's Elan Microelectronics Corp. has filed suit against Apple for allegedly infringing two of its patents for touchscreen technology. http://www.physorg.com/news158504137.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:07:49 EST news158504137 A federal jury ordered US software giant Microsoft on Wednesday to pay 388 million dollars to Uniloc for infringing on an anti-piracy software patent held by the Singapore- and US-based company. http://www.physorg.com/news158479784.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:10:13 EST news158479784 It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the software and information technology giants against their counterparts in biotech. The issues are as fascinating as they are thorny -- and while each side paints the choices as black and white, there's enough gray here to cover a fleet of battleships. http://www.physorg.com/news158334028.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:40:51 EST news158334028 (AP) -- Discovery Communications Inc. says the Kindle electronic book readers from Amazon.com Inc. violate a patent that Discovery registered in 2007. Discovery sued Amazon in Delaware on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news156517559.html Technology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:06:26 EST news156517559 (PhysOrg.com) -- Abolishing patent and copyright laws sounds radical, but two economists at Washington University in St. Louis say it's an idea whose time has come. Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine see innovation as a key to reviving the economy. They believe the current patent/copyright system discourages and prevents inventions from entering the marketplace. The two professors have published their views in a new book, Against Intellecutual Monopoly, from Cambridge University Press. http://www.physorg.com/news155495067.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:05:33 EST news155495067 When it comes to intellectual curiosity and creativity, a market economy in which inventors can buy and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries actually beats out the winner-takes-all world of patent rights as a motivating force, according to a California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-led team of researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news155486207.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:37:13 EST news155486207 Experts in intellectual property and patents explain in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation how tools, such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the enormous backlog of patent applications in the US. http://www.physorg.com/news154608203.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:44:32 EST news154608203