When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have lon... Read more
Research to be published in Science on April 29, 2016 shows how cash-hungry patent trolls are squelching innovation when the American economy depends on it more than ever. What should be don... Read more
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. The race to sequence the huma... Read more
The Supreme Court today unanimously struck down patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 When Angelina Jolie announced last month that she decided to get a prophylactic double mastectomy, she based her de... Read more
A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up again... Read more
It is perfectly legal for companies to sit on patents and wait for others to create before either suing the creator or charging licensing fees. Today it is perfectly legal for companies to b... Read more
Twitter is thinking differently about this We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can en... Read more
In a rapidly evolving industry, software patents deter new entrants The buzz around ‘smart’ mobile devices today is as much about technological innovation as it is about patents... Read more
The cost of patents is going up, and that is not a good thing. After all, Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola largely for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google co... Read more
ON Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether to fundamentally alter the way American patent law is litigated. Specifically, in the context of an otherwise unremarkable patent dispute, t... Read more