Amazon.com, commonly known as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to [...]
The credibility of the American patent system is threatened. It needs to be restored after years of decline under serial assaults from eligibility decisions of the Supreme Court and the PTO’s manner of implementation of Inter Partes Reviews mandated by the America Invents Act. Investors and inventors are fleeing the damaged system in favor [...]
The suits have been filed in U.N District Court of Northern District of Illinois, feature the assertion of single patent technique to combat online software privacy by protecting executable computer program from unauthorized use. U.S. Patent No. 6330549: The functionality of “protected shareware” is controlled by digitally signed messaging protocol. Protective code within the [...]
Apple and Nokia announced that they were settling all pending litigation with each other. In a statement available on Apple’s website, Nokia stated, “This is a meaningful agreement between Nokia and Apple,” Maria Varsellona, Chief Legal Officer, Nokia. It moved their relationship with Apple from being adversaries in court to business partners working for [...]
How do you know whether you have an invention for which a patent can be obtained? That is a complicated question, as most legal questions are unfortunately. Compounding the complexity, however, are a whole host of business considerations that do not relate to the legal question of whether you are at all likely to [...]
I just spotted a brand new published Olympus patent. It describes a 12-35mm f/1.8-2.4 (24-70mm f/4.0-5.6 FF equivalent) MFT lens. The main characteristic of that lens is that it is collapsible. The patent mentions that this lens can be used for both fixed lens and system camera versions. It will have pretty much the [...]
