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USPTO Relents A Little On Apple’s ‘mini’
The USPTO has recently given Apple a little breathing space on it’s application for trademark on it’s popular iPad Mini tablet, withdrawing previous refusals with a small caveat: … Applicant should...
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Interview With A Patent Troll
earlier this week Arstechnica posted an excellent summary and review of the practices of MPHJ Technologies, their associated shell companies and the law companies around the USA that represent them...
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Lodsys Gets Slap-Happy With Lawsuits
According to their website the Marshall, Texas company Lodsys seeks to: Embrace and empower invention by supporting an Innovative Economy Apparently they do this by licencing the four patents they own...
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Rackspace/Red Hat V. Uniloc Summary
From Red Hat’s press release: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) and Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) announced today that they have won a federal court decision granting early dismissal of all claims in a...
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Common Password Patents
Xato.net has an excellent overview of patents dealing with checking for weak passwords. As the summary notes there are multiple patents covering every single aspect of password management,...
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Wyncomm Going Out With A Bang
On Friday Apple Insider posted news that Apple has been sued by a non-practising patent assertion entity Wyncomm LLC for infringing on a 1996 patent covering “side channel communications in...
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European Mobile Anti-Trust Update
Despite potentially resolving their EU antitrust case on fishy search results with formal concessions to the way it present search results, Google are perhaps out of the frying pan and into the fire...
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Canadian Guide To Patents
The website of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has a great guide to patents on their website [HTML] [PDF]. Although containing information specific to the Canadian patent application process...
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Wyncomm LLC Update
It seems Wyncomm LLC’s barrage of ’866 suits is ramping up this week with a total of at least 52 companies served in Delaware. Big name additions to the their hit-list include: France Telecom SA...
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