Mozilla worried it could be collateral damage in Google anti-trust suit
Any potential enforcement action should not cause unintended harm to smaller players, the Firefox-maker states.
Any potential enforcement action should not cause unintended harm to smaller players, the Firefox-maker states.
In its report on Australia's intellectual property arrangements, the Productivity Commission has said innovation patents should be dumped.
This new pro-patent business consortium may boast some of industry's heaviest hitters — Apple, GE, IBM, and Microsoft — but it really doesn't have much of a message.
It may have been the top patent-filing nation last year with over 825,000 patent applications, but China is still lacking innovation and should focus on helping inventors commercialize their patents.
The move is expected to help grow the intellectual property rights landscape to drive economic development in the country.
The passage of a new patent law marks end of years of debate and lobbying.
Watching from the other side of the world, it’s easier to see the fine line between intellectual-property pragmatism and bald hypocrisy – and Obama’s poke in Samsung’s eye just crossed it.
The Internet giant isn't alone in hoping to stifle the ever-growing number of patent-related lawsuits in the technology industry.
Now that the Obama administration has intervened in a patent infringement ruling between Apple and Samsung, uncertainty lingers over how effective the courts have been over such disputes. Is the patience of politicians beginning to wear thin?
The FTC is soon to take on firms that exist purely to buy and collect royalties on patents.