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[Cross-posted on DisCo] It's not often that the President or an Administration talks explicitly about detailed aspects of technology and intellectual property policy.  For President Obama, it has ca...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding the first of its bicoastal roundtables on software patent quality today at 12 pm EST (9 am PST) in Palo Alto, CA.  The second will be ...

Facebook sued over 'like' button (BBC News) Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the "like" button and other features of the social network... It is being sued by a patent-holding company ...

Tomorrow, February 8, the full Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”), who receives nearly all patent appeals, will hear oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.  This cas...

In March of last year a noted Patent Assertion Entity (“PAE”), Cascades Computer Innovation, turned the concept of anticompetitive use of patents on its head by filing an antitrust suit against fi...

(Cross posted on Project DisCo) First of all, thank you Newegg! Everybody go out and buy an extra computer monitor, TV or a bulk pack of styluses from them right now (FYI, styluses are retro coo...

In an interesting historical tidbit, last week the Guardian in the United Kingdom published an interview of Martin Goetz.  Goetz is the person awarded the first software patent back in 1968.  In a p...

(Cross posted on Project DisCo) Yesterday, a sworn statement by former Palm CEO Edward Colligan became part of the public record in a civil antitrust lawsuit brought by 5 employees at major Silicon V...