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AOL Sells Over 800 Patents To Microsoft In $1 Billion+ Cash Deal

America Online (AOL) today announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell over 800, keeping over 300 significant patent portfolios to itself, of its patents and their related patent applications to Microsoft granting the software giant a non-exclusive license to its retained patent portfolio for aggregate proceeds of $1.056 billion in cash. “The...

North Korea Secretly Received $50,000 For Patent Database Access From UN Organization

A controversy rounded up in the wake up of Fox News’ discovery – reports via BoingBoing – that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),...

Dutch Semiconductor Company NXP Suing Research In Motion

The BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is in the process of being sued by a Dutch semiconductor company name NXP over patents infringement, reports Reuters,...

Facebook To Yahoo: Claims Yahoo Infringing Ten Of Its Patents

As we reported earlier that Yahoo sued Facebook over the technology patent issue, the patents are related to advertising, personalized web pages, social...

Oracle And Google Settlement Talks Ends In Mud, Patent Dispute Going To Trial

Seems like Oracle and Google, are not intended to end the dispute our Java Patents to end soon, as US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal has issued a court...

NASA Auctions Off Software Development Patents For $75,000, Others Two Go Unclaimed

NASA over the last month stated that it is auctioning off three sets of patents in an effort to increase the “down-to-Earth” benefits of NASA’s...

Australia’s CSIRO Settle Patent Suit In US WiFi Case For $229 Million

The Australia’s scientific agency has reached a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement in the United States over the use of its wireless internet technology. Since 2005, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have been suing companies for using the WLAN technology without a license. The CSIRO said the settlement for the Wireless local...

US Court Adopts Apple’s Broad Interpretation Of Scrolling Patent

Apple on Thursday had won an important victory against Motorola in the form of a claim construction order interpreting the meaning of certain claim language...

NASA Auctioning Off Three Sets Of Patents Covering Software Development, Robotics And Artificial intelligence

According to Information Week, NASA is auctioning off three sets of patents in an effort to increase the “down-to-Earth” benefits of NASA’s...

Google Offers Oracle Percentage Of Android Revenue Over Patent Damages

In an interesting twist between Google and Oracle’s ongoing patent infringement fight over mobile operating technology, Google proposed to pay Oracle...