Nortel may have to negotiate another legal obstacle before it can realise the value of its patents sales
Apple has filed a preliminary injunction in an attempt to block importation of Samsung products into the US
Google has lost out to a consortium including Microsoft, Apple and RIM for important Nortel patents
Oracle is looking for Google to cough up £1.6bn in its battle over whether Android infringes its Java patents
Apple's updated lawsuit against Samsung adds new patents and targets the Galaxy Tab 10.1
Google's rivals for Nortel Networks' valuable networking patents have been revealed at last
Microsoft's losing battle with i4i before the US Supreme Court could affect future patent-infringement lawsuits, says Nicholas Kolakowski
Apple has agreed to make ongoing payments to Nokia in a turning point for the smartphone industry
Oracle is asking Google to pay 50 percent of royalties, including mobile ad dollars, in the Java patent lawsuit
The UK's Intellectual Property Office is trialling a social networking-style system for improving patent quality
Apple's suit against Samsung has been countered with litigation over data transfer technology in three countries
RIM is considering topping Google's £553m bid for Nortel's wireless technology patents
IBM and Samsung are set to share technology after the two announced a cross-license agreement
The OSI and FSF have complained that selling Novell's patents could terminally threaten the future of Linux
Intel and Nvidia have signed a new long-term licensing contract bringing to an end their patent dispute
HTC is about to join the great tablet bun-fight after it filed for the name Scribe
If patent holders start picking on members of the open source community, innovation will suffer, warns Eric Doyle
Another Android phone company falls under Microsoft’s patent crosshairs as it files an infringement lawsuit against Motorola. Microsoft claims the…
The patent war between Nokia and Apple has opened a new front in the UK
Microsoft is asking the U.S. Supreme Court is examine and overturn a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by Canadian firm…
The list of apps affected by binary planting bugs includes programs such as Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Photoshop, as well…
The ITC rules against Nvidia in a patent-infringement suit begun by Rambus in 2008
Battery recycling and reducing gold in chips are among the technollogies HP has given to a shared patent scheme
The open source giant aims to be a $1 billion company, but CEO Jim Whitehurst was diplomatic about government contracts…
Nokia launched a new legal complaint against Apple on 7 May, alleging that the iPad and iPhone violate five of…
The International Trade Commission, already looking into the complaint Nokia filed against Apple, is now to investigate Apple’s complaint against…