patent

As if DRM wasn't enough!!:x

When Steve Ballmer blurted out on October 9 that Linux was violating patents held by Microsoft and specifically named Red Hat, it was an indicator that the next phase in the campaign of harassment and extortion of companies dealing in free and open source software was about to begin. Read the...

Pictured here is Microsoft's great new patent application on a portable touchscreen device's user interface, filed within days of a certain cellphone going on sale. Look familiar? Well, my spite and disdain is all spent: we're at the point where such patent filings are neither good nor bad...

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Aiming to go beyond just sensing the location of your finger on its touchpads and touchscreens, Apple has applied for a patent for a "Force Imaging Input and Device System," which amounts to a spring-like device underneath the touchscreen or touchpad. The pressure-sensitive "force detector"...

Apple Inc. has successfully patented an anti-theft safeguard for notebooks, phones, and other portable electronics that offers protection simply by sensing the outside world. Originally filed in March 2004 with company storage chief Paul Wehrenberg as the inventor, the U.S. patent awarded to to...

Its really unfair, who dont know anything about Yoga can get patent of Yoga and related matters. Member of parliaments and and Yog Guru Shri Baba Ramdevji express their strong anger against this wrong move by USA Patent Office. Actully Yog is come in to existance in India. Patanjali Yog...

I want to know from which website i can get the info about whether a perticular software name has been patented or not . Let s say i make a software with name "XYZ" . How can i no whether this name " XYZ" is patent of some company and i can or can't use this name for my software ?????

Microsoft's next game machine may be multi-faceted with console and handheld interdependence A filing to the U.S. Patent Office may reveal what Microsoft has planned for its gaming platform after Xbox 360. The patent describes a multi-component gaming system that incorporates both handheld...

While the U.S. courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT (File Allocation Table) patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany. According to a report in the German news publication Heise Online, the court has denied the protection that the European...

Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. ...said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual...

Microsoft threatening Linux using corporations secretly! Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux? *www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/c11627ed-d99b-49d2-983d-d22856181888.html *linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml FUDing the competitiors out of the...

Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. *news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6145615.html

Jeremy Allison, a leading Samba developer and well-known open-source speaker, has decided to leave Novell because of his objections to the Microsoft/Novell patent agreement. In his public letter of resignation, Allison said, "This has been a very difficult decision, but one I feel I have no...

Sonic Solutions, which owns the Roxio brand of products, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against German software manufacturer Nero AG and its American affiliate Nero Inc. The complaint has been filed in the US district court in Marshall, Texas and covers one of Sonic's video editing...

it's over patent infringement To further today's news of patent infringements, IBM is now suing Amazon over patents that IBM developed during the 1980's. IBM noted that the patents cover a range of technologies used for creating catalogues online and for methods of online ordering. Obviously...

Get full artical at :- *chackdephattey.com/Miscellaneous/patent.HTM 1) Delivering Innovations : Lovely Institutes students get patent right for a technical feet 2) Square Hole Drill Machine : patent right for Lovely Institute students 3) Transition from round to...

source: *www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2006/03/22/ballmer-microsoft-linux-cz_df_0322microsoft.html Now double clicking the mouse is also a patent eh?hmm...M$ is poison

Microsoft on Tuesday made broadly available an Internet Explorer update related to a high-profile patent spat with a start-up backed by the University of California. The update changes how the browser handles Web programs known as ActiveX controls. The changes can impact how certain sites...

An idea which hasnt been implemented before is available on an IT related aspect .. What is the procedure to patent it so that nobody else can use it? :idea: