10 wild new patents: The future of tech?
USPTO has been granting lots of new patents, some with a surprisingly quick turnaround. Here are drawings of 10 noteworthy patents issued to top tech players last week.
USPTO has been granting lots of new patents, some with a surprisingly quick turnaround. Here are drawings of 10 noteworthy patents issued to top tech players last week.
An Australian federal court judge has ordered the Epic-Apple trial be rescheduled to 2024 so its timing is closer to a similar dispute between Epic and Google.
Bill Gates may say he has nothing in common with John D. Rockefeller, but the author of a new biography begs to differ.
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech.
Computers radically change the way lawyers fight court battles, as diet pill fight shows.
Tech firms rally around bill designed to streamline complex process, but independent inventors are critical.
Whatever you make of Metallica's beef with Napster Inc., swapping MP3s doesn't signal a new Red Menace.
The patent system is not broken, just not perfect. That is the viewpoint of Jon Dudas, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
At the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, the broken patent system was the topic of several panels. First, Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) said that he coordinating with Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)and others in Congress to produce a patent reform bill in the next two to three weeks.
We truly live in the lucky country, what with being able to easily change our mobile ringtone to the song from the VB ad. Others are not so fortunate.