Last week in patent news

Out of practice: patent trolls and re-examination
July 6, 2011
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/500-wor...tion-10023188/

Why Google And Android Must Deal With The Mobile Protection Racket
July 9, 2011
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-w...ection-racket/

Microsoft Signs Another Patent Deal In Proxy War Against Google
July 5, 2011
http://moconews.net/article/419-micr...gainst-google/

Report: Microsoft Demanding $15 Per Android Handset From Samsung
July 6, 2011
http://moconews.net/article/419-repo...-from-samsung/

Microsoft’s Android Shakedown
July 7, 2011
http://blogs.forbes.com/timothylee/2...oid-shakedown/

Patent trolling with Microsoft
July 7, 2011
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/ar...oft/1310007115

Microsoft Baidu Deal, Android Royalties Marked Week
July 10, 2011
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...d-Week-565073/

Apple, Microsoft Patent Consortium Trying to Kill Android
July 10, 2011
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...ndroid-137537/

Can Microsoft and Apple Kill Google's Android with Lawsuits?
July 11, 2011
http://www.dailytech.com/Can+Microso...ticle22114.htm

Canada investigating Nortel patent selloff
July 6, 2011
http://www.electronista.com/articles...le.breaks.law/

Google Staffing Up On Patent Lawyers And*Experts
July 13, 2011
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/goo...s-and-experts/

Google passes on chance to signal stronger Android patent*defense
July 15, 2011
http://gigaom.com/2011/07/15/google-...atent-defense/

Oracle wants to question Google's Larry Page in Android patent lawsuit
July 15, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...t-lawsuit.html

Greedy Oracle is looking to kill Android growth
July 9, 2011
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/articl...android_growth

Oracle v. Google - Updating the Reexams
June 22, 2011
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...10621192510777

App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach 'tipping point'
July 15, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...raw-us-patents

More Love Lost Between Apple And Samsung: Now At The ITC
June 29, 2011
http://moconews.net/article/419-more...ow-at-the-itc/

Samsung demands Apple legal team be disqualified over insider knowledge fears
July 12, 2011
http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-dem...ears-12164459/

Apple vs Samsung: Judge Hints at Serious Credibility Problem of Apple; Favors Samsung
July 14, 2011
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/1799...minary-inj.htm

Quinn Emanuel Takes Aim at Apple's Lawyers in Samsung Smartphone Patent Fight
July 13, 2011
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticle...e_Patent_Fight

HTC Buys S3 Graphics, Grows Patent Portfolio
July 6, 2011
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-...tfolio-337531/

Apple fires second legal salvo at HTC
July 11, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-200...-salvo-at-htc/

ITC says HTC violating two of Apple's patents

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-200...#ixzz1SEfDRSub
July 15, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-200...?tag=mncol;txt

Apple ordered to pay $8m over playlist patents
July 11, 2011
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07...ent_case_loss/

Apple's new multitouch patent (FAQ)
June 22, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20...ch-patent-faq/


Apple seeks stylus patents
July 8, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20...tylus-patents/

Apple applies for stylus patents
July 8, 2011
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communi...?tag=mncol;txt

One Finger OK, But Only Steve Jobs Can Use Two
July 3, 2011
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/20...se-two-fingers

Apple patent could mean (awesome) new ways of sharing files between devices
July 11, 2011
http://www.appolicious.com/tech/arti...etween-devices

Apple chief patent lawyer leaving: sources
July 12, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...76B0SF20110712

CommerceTel Files for Patent Protection on Groundbreaking Mobile Technologies
July 11, 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/com...k=MW_news_stmp

Acacia Subsidiary Acquires Rights to Patents for 3G and 4G Wireless Technology from a Major Technology Company
July 11, 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aca...k=MW_news_stmp

Helferich files patent lawsuit against Nokia
July 12, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...76B0R120110712

Intellectual Ventures Launches Its Fourth Lawsuit Targeting Dell and HP
July 12, 2011
http://blogs.forbes.com/nathanvardi/...g-dell-and-hp/

Kootol sends legal notice to Apple, others, claiming patent infringemen
July 14, 2011
http://www.macworld.com/article/1611...ues_apple.html

US Patent Expiration for MP3, MPEG-2, H.264
July 15, 2011
http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US...3_MPEG-2_H_264

Vicon Announces Patent Suit Settlement
July 14, 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vic...k=MW_news_stmp

Amazon Loses 1-Click Patent
July 7, 2011
http://blogs.forbes.com/timworstall/...-click-patent/

Freescale charges three companies with patent infringement
July 12, 2011
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/ne...nies-with.html

Blaze Mobile awarded patent for NFC sticker
July 15, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-200...r-nfc-sticker/

Universal Electronics Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit
July 15, 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uni...k=MW_news_stmp

"Becton, Dickinson & Co. won a partial appeal of a $5 million patent-infringement verdict that favored Retractable Technologies Inc. on technology used to protect health-care workers from accidental needle sticks.
July 11, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...-property.html

Austin-based Convergen LifeSciences wins patent for lung cancer treatment
July 14, 2011
http://www.statesman.com/business/au...g-1609962.html

Can Microsoft and Apple Kill Google's Android with Lawsuits?

Can Microsoft and Apple Kill Google's Android with Lawsuits?:

But despite the appearance that Android won, the ecosystem is now facing the looming potential of doom. That doom could come thanks to Apple, RIM, and Microsoft's growing portfolio of purchased intellectual property and desire to sue Android handset makers into submission.

Apple currently is suing HTC, Samsung, and Motorola in cases that stretch across multiple countries and continents. Microsoft is suing Motorola as well and is using legal threats to try to force Samsung into a per phone licensing deal (as much as $15 USD per Android phone sold), as it did with HTC last year. Likewise, Oracle Corp. is seeking $6.1B USD in damages, claiming that Android is infringing on the Java patents it obtained in its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

The combined picture is clear. Apple and Microsoft have sued or entered into sweet licensing agreements with virtually every major Android maker (a few like LG Electronics Inc. have been spared, presumably on the merits of their smaller market share)."

UK tech lobbyists call for software patents | Intellectual Property | ZDNet UK

UK tech lobbyists call for software patents | Intellectual Property | ZDNet UK:

"We need to recognise that software is a material — you can make inventions from that material," Mitchell said at the event, held to discuss the recent Hargreaves report into intellectual property law. "It's like wood, it's like paper, so why have some artificial limitation?"

Mitchell complained that "hardly anyone" submitted evidence to Ian Hargreaves before he published the report. The report called for the UK to resist allowing software patents in order to avoid "thickets" of patents building up around commonly-used technology.

"[Hargreaves] seems not to have noticed that quite a lot of SMEs who did respond said there's no UK system in place for patent enforcement. In the G8, this is the only country that has no penalties in place for patent infringement," Mitchell said.

HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi

HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi:

Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning.

Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.

Microsoft is suing other Android phone makers, and it's looking for $7.50 to $12.50 per device, says Pritchard.

Intellectual Ventures Gets Another Patent Licensee: Dashwire | mocoNews

Intellectual Ventures Gets Another Patent Licensee: Dashwire | mocoNews:

Dashwire, which is currently being sued by Synchronoss for patent infringement, becomes the latest customer of former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold’s controversial company. Intellectual Ventures is essentially one big patent warehouse, and it’s suing a host of companies in the tech industry alleging that they are infringing upon those patents.

HTC acquires wireless communication patents from ADC Telecommunications

#HTC will acquire 82 patents and 14 #patent appliactions concerning wireless communication technologies from ADC Telecommunications for US$75 million, according to the smartphone vendor.

HTC will use the patents to develop 4G smartphones mainly, according to industry sources.

RIM Signs On With Intellectual Ventures For Its Patent Portfolio | paidContent

RIM Signs On With Intellectual Ventures For Its Patent Portfolio | paidContent:

RIM has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the patent-holding company founded by Microsoft’s former CTO, Nathan Myhrvold and its former chief architect, Edward Jung. The deal will give RIM access to 30,000 patent’s in IV’s portfolio.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed in the news release, but as with past deals with other handset makers HTC and Samsung, the agreement will allow RIM to use the patents alongside its own in the development of products and, significantly, “leverage IV’s portfolio in its future licensing negotiations.”

That $7.8b Apple-Samsung Deal isn’t as big as you might think - The Digital Reader

That $7.8b Apple-Samsung Deal isn’t as big as you might think - The Digital Reader:

The hot story today is about the deal that Samsung and Apple are about to sign. Over the next year, Samsung will provide $7.8 billion worth of components for the iPad and iPhone. this deal would make Apple the single largest customer of Samsung.

Novell patent pool filing by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC withdrawn

Novell patent pool filing by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC withdrawn:

A plan created by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC to create a consortium to acquire hundreds of Novell patents has been withdrawn after complaints from open source advocates, leaving the fate of the nearly half billion dollars' worth of patents uncertain.

Supreme Court to hear Microsoft patent-infringement appeal - News - Windows for Devices

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Microsoft's appeal in its long-running patent case with Canadian firm i4i. This not only gives Microsoft another shot at overturning a substantial monetary judgment, but also gives the Court a chance to leave its mark on the patent-infringement battles gripping the tech industry.