The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

Consumer tech rip-off from patent pools

| Steve Pociask
Inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison holds nearly 1,100 U.S. patents to his name. He invented the stock ticker, recorded music and motion pictures. Oh yeah, and the light bulb. Edison had very little formal schooling; most of what he learned as a child he attributed to his mother.

When you buy a DVD, personal computer, digital television or another audio/video capable device, you may be paying more for something than you should be.

Lawmakers reintroduce bill to protect tech companies from 'patent trolls'

| Josh Peterson
Earns Yahoo

‘Patent trolls don’t create new technology, and they don’t create American jobs’

Report: Kodak gets patent bid from Apple, Google - AP

| Associated Press
Kodaks Future.JPEG

The sum is the minimum Kodak can sell the patents for and still get an $830 million loan that’s crucial to getting the company out of bankruptcy.

Blackberry maker loses patent suit over software - AP

| admin
Earns Research in Motion
Mformation, of Edison, N.J., sued Research in Motion in October 2008, alleging that Canada-based RIM infringed on its 1999 invention for remotely managing wireless devices

Yahoo targets Facebook for more potential patent infringements - ComputerWorld

| Josh Peterson
YAHOO headquarters

Facebook denied infringing Yahoo’s patents, and countered by alleging that Yahoo had infringed 10 of its patents.

Verdict pending for Oracle's suit against Google - Fox News

| Josh Peterson
Oracle Google

Oracle, Google await verdict in $1 billion smartphone lawsuit

Microsoft sells AOL patents on to Facebook - AP

| admin
AOL Microsoft

Microsoft and Facebook said Monday that Facebook is buying about 650 of the 925 AOL patents and patent applications Microsoft bought.