Reports surfacing of a failed relationship between the founders of Uber and Google suggest reasons other than the patent for the feud and lawsuit. ...

The patent, initially filed in 2012, describes a "physical store online shopping control," which provides a method to stop people from gaining competitive information about products and services at anoth ...

Conductor Founder Seth Besmertnik believes the patent system is broken and refuses to play the game of patents anymore. He said "these things just don't matter." He is not concern ...

Amazon has been granted a video-based search engine patent as Dish adds Alexa Voice services to its TV platform. ...

Snap just bought a patent from one-time Instagram rival Mobli. “Serial entrepreneur and investor Moshe Hogeg, who co-founded Mobli, signed the deal earlier this month, transferring Mobli’s Geofilters patent over ...

Brand and ad safety issues will soon extend from Google to other social media platforms, says Eric Feinberg, founder of the Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Center (Gipec). ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who sought to hold eBay responsible for alleged patent infringement. The man alleged that his patent on "Carpenter Bee Traps" w ...

Asked about EFF's criticisms of the patent, an IBM spokesperson said that "IBM has decided to dedicate the patent to the public." The company notified USPTO today that it wi ...

Google engineers have developed a labeling technique that enables the technology to pinpoint a location or geographic position based on a variety of data stored in the phone. ...

A federal jury in Marshall, Texas has ordered Google to pay $20 million plus royalties to an investor and the family of the co-inventor for infringing on patents. The awa ...

The patent troll Blackbird Technologies has sued Netflix over its use of technology that allows people to download movies for offline viewing. Blackbird Technologies owns US Patent No. 7,174,362, which is sa ...

Drawbridge has announced that it recently secured a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a system to group Internet devices based upon device usage. ...

The duo’s product agreement calls for TiVo to continue integrating Netflix into TiVo set-tops. Also TiVo remotes will get a special Netflix button. Neat! ...

A recent Yahoo patent application shows a desire to take advertising to "the Orwellian level" by "bombarding people in public places with targeted advertising served up by the surveillance society ...

A Yahoo patent could bring targeting and tracking capabilities to out-of-home (OOH) advertising. The recently updated patent describes a method of real-time advertising in public spaces. ...

Executives at four of the 15 companies named on the Yahoo's patent and application citation list had spoke with TurboPatent about the valuation of the portfolio, Search Marketing Daily h ...

Yahoo is planning to auction a portfolio of nearly 3,000 patents and applications this week. The company reassigned the group to a new subsidiary it calls Excalibur IP, but wh ...

Yahoo has set a mid-June deadline for preliminary bids on its patent sales -- many of which are related to Web search and advertising -- and hired the boutique investme ...

Forget laser surgery -- Forbes points to a Google patent for a vision-correcting electronic device that doctors will inject directly into the eye. It's designed to help the focus ...

Google appealed a ruling won by SimpleAir, and on Friday a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided that the lower court judge didn't interpr ...

Wearable tech company Valencell alleges that its patents are infringed by Apple and Fitbit. Valencell also says that Apple breached a contract by downloading publicly available white papers, but faili ...

Although Twitter is not known for seemingly farfetched projects like driverless cars and global WiFi, it has given some thought to at least one wild idea: drones that fly arou ...

Apple's growing strength in search services could have prompted the decision to shut down Topsy Labs' search and social media analytics tool to measure Twitter data. The Cupertino, Calif. compa ...

Samsung is hoping to appeal its Apple patent case with the Supreme Court. “Although it has already written Apple a $548 million check, the Korean electronics giant insists that n ...

The application, published on Patents Encyclopedia.com states that four Bay Area inventors have devised: "A method of monitoring an online video advertisement system, comprising: receiving a request for insertion ...

Google and Microsoft on Wednesday announced a settlement of approximately 20 lawsuits after five years of intellectual property and patent wars in the U.S. and Germany. ...

Google has updated a patent for a wrist-worn device with removable headset with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that has multiple sensors and can collect data like heart rat ...

An eBay director of global ecommerce and payments has updated a patent for an algorithm that ranks search query results based on matching language with geographic region. The patent suppor ...

Audience Partners, an ad management company that uses programmatic technologies to reach potential voters, has received a U.S. patent for its voter-targeting technology. ...

Google expanded on its marketplace launched in April that enables companies to sell their patents to the search company. It started a program for startups that will give them ...