U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu said Wednesday that the office is now reviewing its patent bar requirements with an eye on diversity, but cautioned that the rise in frivolous patent litigation might also be keeping… Read More »
Cisco Systems Inc. was told to pay $1.9 billion after losing a trial brought by a Virginia company that claimed the networking giant copied patented cybersecurity features and shut the smaller company out of government contracts. Cisco infringed… Read More »
Sonos has filed another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging that the search giant is infringing five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products. The move comes on the eve of Google’s fall… Read More »
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a sweeping antitrust judgment against Qualcomm Inc., QCOM 6.40% ruling the federal government didn’t prove the dominant cellphone chip maker engaged in illegal monopolization. The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that… Read More »
The number of infringement cases involving intellectual property rights violations in China has surged 5,660 per cent over the past two decades, according to the top prosecutor’s office, in a sign of Beijing’s growing seriousness about rights protection… Read More »
In a talk Tuesday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young extolled the agency as the bedrock of American democracy, saying anyone who loves the United States has to support the patent system. Young,… Read More »
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence told CNBC on Thursday that the speaker maker’s decision to sue Google over patent infringement was born of necessity. “I’m not going to sit idly by because there’s real value” in our patented… Read More »
America used to be the world’s premier technology innovator and China its best duplicator. But the roles are shifting, as has been shown by two major business stories of 2020: the signing of phase one of a… Read More »
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers. For the project, Sonos handed over the effective blueprints to its speakers. It… Read More »
Nucurrent, a startup in Chicago, has come up with a way to charge electronic gizmos wirelessly—a nifty trick for devices such as smartphones. So nifty, in fact, that Samsung, a giant South Korean device-maker, uses it in… Read More »
