Twitter - the actual concept of Twitter - is now patented.
U.S. Patent 8,401,009 just went through, with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone listed as inventors. It's a vague and overarch...
Google has applied for a patent for something that sounds an awful lot like Facebook's ticker feature. While we can only speculate on Google's plans, it seems likely that they're t...
A patent application from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests that he, at some point, at least toyed with the idea of introducing a "paid profile" model that would allow users to...
One day in the near future, you may be wearing a Google watch to go with your Google Glass while you sit in your Google driverless car.
According to...
These days, you can hardly go a day without seeing news about patent trolls or some kind of patent litigation plaguing businesses, especially in the technology industry.
TED, w...
Major media outlets have been named in a series of patent infringement suits related to mobile phone apps and websites.
Clouding IP is claiming such media giants as CNN, The Ne...
Apple and HTC announced this weekend that they have reached a global settlement that dismisses all current patent lawsuits between the companies. In addition, the companies have s...
For the longest time, Apple has been fighting a proxy war against Google. The company has never directly filed a lawsuit against the makers of the Android operating system, but rat...