Whatever his faults, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is at least persistent and ambitious. Allen proved this yesterday by refiling a patent infringement lawsuit against AOL...
A certain social network is now one step closer to owning a trademark on the term "face." Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office sent Facebook...
Two weeks ago, the CFO of the Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft hinted something dramatic would happen. Now it has: Microsoft announced this afternoon that it's...
No one's launched a product or sent in the lawyers just yet, but it looks like Yahoo is on Google's tail in terms of instant search and might trip up its rival with a legal obje...
Android isn't free and Google is going to face a lot of legal problems, if one Microsoft exec is to be believed. Tivanka Ellawala, CFO of the Mobile Communications Busines...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a company called Interval Licensing, and it is suing the following eleven companies: AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Offic...
Almost every time a company is dragged into court, the process becomes a drain on its resources and isn't great for PR (no matter how ridiculous the claims). It's perhaps...
A few days ago, a Texas-based company called InNova Patent Licensing filed an infringement lawsuit against 36 well-known companies. The company claims to hold the patent on spam...
Google was granted an interesting patent today. The title is "System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring". Here is how the abs...