Well IBM has responded to the firestorm that ensued from its asserting its patent protection against a small French open source start up, TurboHercules that I wrote about the other day. However, its ...

The legal profession has elevated itself in CNET's estimation in the past week, with judges here in the UK and now in Australia mocking Apple and Samsung for their absurd and petty patent disputes.

WASHINGTON - Crustless peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, a way to move sideways on a swing, a technique for exercising cats using a laser pointer - these are among the inventions patented in the ...

Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents—a place where you’ll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but ...

Minecraft developer Mojang has been sued for patent infringements by a company that holds a reputation for suing other companies over software patents. Mojang is facing legal issues with Uniloc, a ...

The patent troll suing mobile apps developers for including an "upgrade" button in their apps got Fred Wilson to go off on a righteous rant on his blog calling for the abolition of software patents: ...

If there’s any lesson to be learned from Google’s news-making activities these past few days, it’s that software patents are a problem. The most recent illustration, of course, is Google’s $12.5 ...

Some things are patently ridiculous. One is the U.S. patent system, an institution in desperate need of reform. The reason for patents is to encourage innovation. We give inventors exclusive rights to ...