Posts Tagged: Google
Tech Giants Lead the Way on Fintech Patents, Ahead of Banks
British patent data insights firm Cipher recently released an IP strategy report that provides a look at how many firms are patenting technologies in the hopes of …
Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB’s Determination of CBM Patent After Appeal by Apple and Google
On Wednesday, July 11th, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Apple v. ContentGuard Holdings vacating a decision by the Patent Trial …
Oracle America v. Google, Free Java: Fair or Unfair?
The Federal Circuit recently decided the case of Oracle America v. Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, …
House Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Artificial Intelligence Challenges and Opportunities
On the morning of Tuesday, June 26th, both the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology and the House Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing titled Artificial Intelligence …
Google vs. the Luddites: A Patent Battle Neither Side Should Win
The idea that all software is obvious is a theoretical argument that doesn’t just border on the scattological, it wades right into the sewer. Consider artificial …
Google Changes Its Code of Conduct After Years of Being Evil Towards Patent Owners
However, in intellectual property circles, it would be easy question whether Google has lived up to the goal of not doing, or being, evil... Google’s efforts …
New Reports says Engine, EFF are Shills for Google on Patent Reform
Google’s efforts to decimate the U.S. patent system to protect its own interests is a fact of life that is becoming more clear day by …
Content Creators Coalition Calls on Congress to Grill Google Over Privacy and Drug Sales Concerns
In early May, the online creator advocacy group Content Creators Coalition (c3) published a digital ad calling on Congress to hold hearings to look into various illegal …
Predicting Patent Number 10,000,000
The date of patent number 10,000,000 will be June 19, 2018. We feel this one is the easiest part of the prediction. We also think the USPTO will award Patent 10,000,000 …
Are Today’s Social Media Tech Giants the Big Brother that Orwell Warned Us About?
Dystopian novels and science fiction often return to the subject of the loss of personal privacy which is often encouraged by the use of technology enabling constant, …
How Not to Copy: What is Fair and What is Fair Use?
These issues of fairness and fair use are played out in the recent Oracle v. Google decision. In a convoluted case that has gone up to the …
Google’s use of Java API packages in Android OS not a fair use
The Federal Circuit found Google’s use of Java API packages in it's Android operating system was not a fair use as a matter of law, resurrecting …
Patent Filings Increase for E-Cigarettes, 3-D Printing and Machine Learning
One interesting aspect of IFI CLAIMS’ most recent annual patent analysis is a list of eight areas of technology that have seen the fastest growing increases in …
Tech Giants Maintain Dominance By Copying Technologies
Although it’s not illegal to earn a profit, unfair business practices in the pursuit of holding a monopoly over an entire industry led to the breakup …
Federal Circuit says Kessler Doctrine did not preclude claims asserted against Google
Google also argued that, if claim preclusion did not bar SimpleAir’s infringement claims, than the Kessler doctrine barred them. This doctrine, stemming from a 1907 decision by …
