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Today we re following up with our second part of our recent IBM coverage with a survey of the company s recent patent grants from the U S Patent and Trademark Office IBM is a patenting giant and in…

In part of my interview with Kristina Dinerman we discuss how aggressive celebrities are becoming with respect to protecting their right of publicity in the age of social media whether the Supreme Court may interject itself at some point…

In this edition we found a number of patent applications filed with the U S Patent and Trademark Office to protect technologies for customer loyalty rewards programs including one innovative system for encouraging account holders to achieve long-term goals…

We were very intrigued to see a large number of patent applications related to goal achievement technologies and we closely examined three of these which we felt were worth sharing Methods for creating an impetus to achieve a goal…

Hewlett-Packard has one of the stronger patent portfolios among U S technology developers and the past few weeks have seen many interesting additions to that portfolio One patent protects a method of brokering fair prices between printing entities and…

Today s featured patent application would protect a novel system of addressing power outages when a utility network doesn t receive notification of the event directly from customers This system allows a utility network to scan social media posts…

Making a startup into a successful small business venture requires more than an entrepreneurial heart and willpower It takes a loyal base comprised of engaged connected customers and clients to help a business go from start up to sustainable…

Both Facebook and Twitter will need to grow up and mature as companies if they are going to succeed for the long haul A review of the patent portfolios suggests that Facebook has a much greater chance of ultimately…

We profile one patent application that seeks to converge content from social networks with the news feed that a person sees when browsing a news aggregator service Google wants to patent a system that analyzes a user s social…

Today we re featuring a bevy of patent applications and issued patents featuring IBM developments in a wide range of computing services Our featured patent application describes a system of filtering social media messages sent to group members based…

Social media websites such as Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter have changed the manner that businesses communicate and market their products and innovations Although these tools may be beneficial by creating market buzz for new products through rapid information sharing…

This week in IPWatchdog s Companies We Follow our series returns to focus once again on Samsung and its recent appearances at the U S Patent Trademark Office As has often been the case recently many of the more…