by ndecost | Mar 5, 2014 | Commentary |
So when exactly did the brightly colored building blocks we played with as kids transform into a wildly successful multimedia entertainment platform? On February 7, the Lego Movie stormed theaters and notched one of the top opening weekends ever for a non-sequel...
by djschaff | Feb 24, 2014 | Commentary
Patent-seeking inventors may spend countless hours perfecting that grand idea that sparked its way into their brains while returning from a hunting trip–in the case of that useful adhesive we know as velcro–or while watching a cat pull feathers through a...
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 MTTLR ADMIN | 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...
