In 2010, U.S.-based companies recaptured the lead for the total number of U.S. patents granted after falling behind foreign companies for the previous two years, according to rankings released yesterday by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, a division of Fairview Research, of global companies awarded the most U.S. patents in 2010.
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The Web giant may have to take a step back, however, to deal with a California-based inventor who claims these services infringe on his patent.
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However, the USPTO is fiscally unique, since it can offset its costs because of its authority to set its own fees for the services it provides to patent applicants.
Last week, Unwired Planet, a patent licensing company that once upon a time was an Internet services company called Openwave, announced a deal to acquire a portfolio of 2, 185 U.S. and international patents and patents pending from Ericsson.
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Hopefully, as the FTC and DOJ hold more workshops, they will follow this example, abandoning rhetoric and instead calmly investigating how the patent system produces dynamic innovation, not just in products and services, but also in the many new business models that arise from this patented innovation itself.
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On Feb. 5, INPI will publish its decision on the matter in the Industrial Property Magazine, which services as the official bulletin of record for trademark and patent protection.
So is the biggest search outfit, Overture , a little-known billion-dollar vendor that provides unbranded search services for other Web sites and has sued Google, alleging patent infringement.
So is the biggest search outfit, Overture (nasdaq: OVER - news - people ), a little-known billion-dollar vendor that provides unbranded search services for other Web sites and has sued Google, alleging patent infringement.
Looking at the damages Google is offering Oracle to settle a possible patent infringement case allows one to calculate up what the total revenues from those services (ie, the ad revenue that their inclusion on phones brought to Google) have been.
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Glassey says the patent, which was approved in April 2002, laid a foundation for subsequent location based services on mobile computing devices, such as smartphones.
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Left undecided until Thursday are the important honest services cases, which could spring former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, and Bilksi, the patent case that could upturn business-method patent law.
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