November 11, 2024 - Generative AI (GenAI) models — which produce new content based on training data — have recently become increasingly important to the advancement of commercial technologies. From ...

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Microsoft Corp.’s aim to seek patent royalties from open-source software distributors and users may be an attempt to use legal threats to deflect attention from larger questions surrounding its ...

Nintendo has run into another issue during its ongoing legal battle against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld. As reported by GamesFray, one of the Nintendo patents related to the case ...

There is a growing view at the highest levels of government that patent rights should be strengthened and patent litigation promoted. If, as newly appointed director of the Patent Office, John Squires ...

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week could have a huge impact on business-method and software patents, with some experts concerned that the court could put significant limits on what ...

Timothy Lee writes a compelling argument against software patents in the New York Times today. It's the very same argument that Bill Gates advanced back in 1991 against software patents, but now has ...

Patent trolls extort millions from developers and entrepreneurs, but help is on the way from the EFF and the Supreme Court How dumb are all-too-many software patents? “Spectacularly dumb,” says Vera ...

When we think of patents, we think of genius inventors with brilliant new ideas to make our lives better: Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 patent for the telephone, say, or Thomas Edison’s 1880 patent for ...