In Focus: Patents

Microsoft announced a worldwide patent deal under which Motorola Solutions licenses its intellectual property devices running the Android platform and ...

Nokia and HTC reached a settlement of all pending patent litigation.  HTC will make payments to Nokia. Financial terms were ...

Cisco and Google announced a long-term patent cross-licensing agreement covering a broad range of products and technologies. "Our agreement with ...

Ericsson and Samsung announced a global cross license agreement covering patents relating to GSM, UMTS, and LTE standards for both ...

Samsung Electronics and Google announced a 10-year, global patent cross licensing deal.  The arrangement provides both companies with access to ...

IBM was awarded a U.S. patent for a technique that prevents mobile devices from accessing software code that has been ...

Acacia Research Corporation confirmed that it has has acquired US patents and foreign counterparts related to cellular HSPA and LTE ...

IBM has been awarded U.S. Patent #8,539,597: Securing sensitive data for cloud computing.  The technique enables clients to use cloud-based ...

Google and MPEG LA reached a deal granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and ...

Ericsson will transfer 2,185 issued U.S. and international patents and patent applications to Unwired Planet, an intellectual property holding firm ...

A U.S. court in San Jose, California confirmed a $60 million damages verdict against A10 Networks and entered an order ...

A jury in Pittsburgh awarded $1.169 billion to Carnegie Mellon University in a patent infringement case against Marvell Semiconductor. Carnegie ...

Acacia Research Corporation announced the acquisition of certain 2G, 3G and 4G related patents from Nokia Siemens Networks.  The patents related ...