Tag: SUPREMECOURT

So a court decides that your entire business model is based on a technology that infringes on another company's patents. What do you do? Well, if your Vonage and the other company is Verizon, apparently you seek a retrial. It's not unusual for defendants to seek a retrial in addition to appealing. Usually there's not much chance of getting the new trial, but this time Vonage is hoping a recent ...

Ask any tech company and they'll tell you, skull-whacking obvious patents are a giant pain in the posterior. Patents were designed to give real innovators an opportunity to profit from their inventions, but have in recent years become a profit center for many patent portfolio holding robber barons hell-bent on profiting from the work of others. Not so fast there patent Pete.. The Supremes stood ...

My, what an interesting year we're having. First the Wow! starts, now the Wha? starts in earnest. It seems Microsoft might be arguing itself into a corner in front of the Supreme Court regarding software patents. How? Well, Microsoft uses a little bit of code from AT&T to make some speech recognition magic happen in Vista. The catch? they might not have licensed this code for use overseas. So ...