Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)July 28th, 2008
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-Motorola wins text messaging patent case
-Nintendo Loses Battle with Patent Troll, Faces Ban
-Microsoft and the Yahoo patent portfolio
-State to get nearly $7 million in settlement with drug company
-Intellectual Ventures seeks to raise $2.5B
-US Patent Office rulings threaten key Google patent, says expert
-When the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Principle Doesn't Apply
-A prayer for Microsoft
-Inventor knew that rain must fall
Qualcomm, Nokia avert Mobile World War
(EETimes) The announcement this week of an intellectual property agreement between Qualcomm and Nokia is one that has the industry buzzing, with implications not only for the two companies involved, but also for the intellectual property (IP) and wireless communities at large, as well as the consumer.
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Motorola wins text messaging patent case
(AP/CNN) Motorola Inc., the world's No. 3 cell phone maker, said Friday it won a patent case filed against the company over its text messaging software.
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Nintendo Loses Battle with Patent Troll, Faces Ban
(eFlux Media) Nintendo lost a battle with patent troll Anascape, a company which somehow got its hands on twelve overbroad patents which appear to have no other aim than to rip off gadget makers. Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge Ron Clark in Lufkin, Texas, rejected Nintendo's request to overturn an earlier ruling which ordered Nintendo of America to pay $21 million to Anascape.
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Microsoft and the Yahoo patent portfolio
(MarketWatch) The latest thinking in the Silicon Valley scene regarding the Microsoft-Yahoo-Carl Icahn Saga, which is not going away, might be about some sort of killer patent owned by Yahoo. Right now financial researchers everywhere are trying to figure out what exactly the patent is.
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State to get nearly $7 million in settlement with drug company
(Seattle Times) Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to pay the Washington state nearly $7 million to settle allegations of illegal marketing and pricing of prescription medications.
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Intellectual Ventures seeks to raise $2.5B
(Bizjournals) Intellectual Ventures LLC, the Bellevue patent-collecting firm founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, is seeking to raise up to $2.5 billion for a new investment fund, according to a regulatory filing.
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US Patent Office rulings threaten key Google patent, says expert
(security.itproportal.com) Recent US patent rulings could undermine the patentability of software in the US at a stroke, a leading US patent expert has warned.
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When the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Principle Doesn't Apply
(EFF) When I was a kid, it seemed that every third commercial I saw was for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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A prayer for Microsoft
(CNET) Sunday morning, and I couldn't help but ponder Michael Tiemann's excellent note on Microsoft's revised (and improved) Open Specification Promise and "what Microsoft can do for open source."
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Inventor knew that rain must fall
(Rep-Am) Maybe you've played this game. Light rain drizzles down on your car's windshield.
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