Shira Perlmutter, one of this year’s IP Hall of Fame inductees, speaks to IAM about her career and the big issues currently facing the copyright world
Christian “Chris” Hannon of the USPTO Office of Policy and International Affairs discussed the policy document at the AIPLA Spring Meeting in Austin
The first instance Emotional Perception ruling made things easier for Artificial Neural Network patentees, but left several important questions unanswered
Yesterday, Nokia announced a patent cross-licence and sale agreement with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which it said was part of a broader business cooperation agreement. No financial terms were disclosed, but we know that both sides will get a…
06 July 2017
WiLAN has stepped up its campaign against the growing personal digital assistant market filing six lawsuits before and after Christmas against a series of big tech companies including Amazon and HTC over patents that underpin Siri, the popular…
12 January 2017
Sony announced this week that it has made a strategic investment in California-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Cogitai, with the Japanese company’s IP team playing an instrumental role in the deal.Founded by a team of computer…
20 May 2016
A new study by technology consulting and litigation support firm iRunway has analysed the patent landscape around speech recognition technology, finding that Microsoft and specialist company Nuance lead the way. The report highlights the growth in…
10 September 2015
IPBC Global 2015, being held next week at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, will host the launch of the Open Registry of Patent Ownership (ORoPO) - a new project aimed at creating a more efficient global patent market by encouraging openness and…
12 June 2015
Whatever you think of the possible motives, you can’t fault Google for trying. The search giant launched another initiative yesterday targeted at solving what it terms the “NPE problem”: the fact that 70% of the patents that are litigated by non…
28 April 2015
One of these years IBM is not going to be the number one recipient of US patents and will find itself in a public relations firestorm. According to IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, in 2014 the company received a record 7,534 US patents, more than 2,500…
13 January 2015
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