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Firm Targets Microsoft’s Skype Unit in Patent Lawsuit
CopyTele, which these days is focused on trying to monetize its patents, says Skype and most of the Web-conferencing industry is infringing its intellectual property.
Court Denies Motorola the Billions It Wanted From Microsoft for Standards-Essential Patents
A court rules that Motorola is owed about $1.8 million, as opposed to the $4 billion-plus it had been seeking.
Microsoft Strikes Another Android Patent Deal, This Time With ZTE
With this deal — and another with Foxconn — Microsoft now has arrangements in place with the bulk of the leading Android players.
Microsoft Launches Tool to Make It Easy to See All Its Patents
The patent tracker tool went live just ahead of the April 1 deadline that the software maker had set for itself.
A Quarter of Patents This Year Will Be Mobile-Related
So it looks like continued full employment for intellectual property lawyers.
Apple Wants a Hearing Before Judge in Samsung Case to Talk Damages
Apple says it shouldn’t have to wait for all appeals to be heard before settling some of the damages issues in the Samsung case.
Via Licensing Adds Two More to LTE Patent Pool, but Big Names Still Missing
China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom are contributing their patents to the licensing effort, but big names such as Ericsson and Qualcomm still aren’t on the list.
The Only Thing Worse Than the Patent Wars You Are Reading About Are the Ones You Aren’t Reading About
Roughly three in five patent suits filed this year were done by a company whose sole business is pursuing such claims.
Judge to Apple and Samsung: So How Does All This End?
Judge Lucy Koh suggested to Apple and Samsung that it is time for some sort of peace treaty, but neither combatant showed signs of backing down.