by ryte | Feb 19, 2014 | Commentary |
At a mere three pounds, the brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It contains 100 billion neurons and is capable of storing roughly 2.5 petabytes of data. This functionality is mind boggling–as is the fact that despite all this capacity, I can’t...
by hollyvic | Feb 18, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are nothing new in the world of patent litigation, but this past October, NPE litigation reached a new level when the Rockstar Consortium filed an infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas. Rockstar Consortium (not to be...
by cdszczep | Feb 17, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
On February 5, 2014, Google and Cisco announced a long-term cross-licensing deal. The agreement permits either company to utilize the other company’s patent portfolio. That day, Cisco also agreed to a similar cross-licensing agreement with Samsung. Last week,...
by arid | Feb 11, 2014 | Commentary |
In January, the Google patent machine churned out this latest patent entitled “transportation-aware physical advertising conversions.” The patent describes a method of weighing the profit an advertiser could expect to make from a potential customer, the likelihood of...
by jachang | Feb 9, 2014 | Commentary |
Project finance is a method of nonrecourse financing that “is not primarily dependent on the credit support of the [project] sponsors or the value of the physical assets involved,” but rather depends upon the expected “performance of the project itself.” [1] This...
by bjunter | Feb 4, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
Google and Samsung have announced a substantial and long-term cross-licensing agreement. This agreement will allow the companies to use each other’s existing patents, and any new patents filed, for the next 10 years. [1] Cross-licensing is a contract between two...
