Any parent with small children who hires a sitter they barely know wishes they could have another set of eyes to keep tabs on what happens when they're not aroun ...

Apple was hit on Tuesday with a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Open TV, re/code reports. OpenTV says that iTunes software that allows users to download and stream movies violat ...

Google has opened its purse strings to create a secondary marketplace for U.S. only patents. The cash-rich company has set up an experimental marketplace for patent owners to sell the ...

Lawmakers' return to Capitol Hill this week will be marked by a renewed effort to find a way to curb the abusive practices of patent trolls. In the last Congres ...

Online video advertising has become one of the hottest media on desktop and mobile, and Innovid plans to leverage that opportunity with a recently granted patent by The United Stat ...

Earlier this year Google announced ambitions to make "smart" contact lenses. This week the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted the Mountain View, Calif. company a patent describing a sens ...

Search retargeting company Magnetic has received a patent for its search retargeting technology. The patent covers Magnetic's programmatic technology for retargeting based on keywords, enabling advertisers to reach audiences wi ...

Nielsen rival Rentrak has received another important piece of intellectual property in its push to become the dominant provider of TV audience ratings derived from digital set-top devices: a pate ...

Google and Verizon Communications have entered into a long-term patent cross-license agreement for a range of products and technologies, allowing each company to reduce the risk of future patent litigatio ...

Rentrak, which in October said it was granted a patent for measuring when TV sets are turned on or off, this morning announced another addition to its intellectual property w ...

Since Steve Jobs died in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, the former Apple founder has won 141 patents, and 458 patented inventions and designs credited to Jobs have been approved sin ...

Ad agencies would not be indemnified against patent claims related to the work they do for advertisers, according to recommendations released this morning by the Association of National Advertisers. T ...

Paying the patent police, Google has agreed to settle litigation with “patent consortium” Rockstar. Late last year, Rockstar sued Google for on infringing seven search-related Nortel patents. “Rockstar, which coun ...

The U.S. patent office in October granted Disney a patent described as an "online content ranking system based on authenticity metric values for Web elements." The abstract explains a meth ...

Google and LG have entered into a 10-year patent cross-licensing deal that could support new technology for connected devices for homes, cars, and manufacturing, as well as energy-efficient products a ...

On the heels of its $98 million deal with WPP Group to acquire one of its chief TV set-top data-based ratings rivals Kantar Media, Rentrak this morning announced it h ...

Google inventors have received five search-related patents this week from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, ranging from the position of search query ranking to tracking Web site clicks ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted Apple a patent for the Fifth Avenue Apple Store glass cube designed in part by co founder Steve Jobs. The 32-foot cube us ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington has settled a dispute between Google and Vringo over filtering technology that determines placement of advertisements in search que ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union announced Thursday that Apple has a secured a court ruling allowing the company to register the layout of its retail stores ...

Microsoft and Google never reveal patent licensing agreements unless ordered by a court of law, but documents posted on the Chinese Ministry of Commerce Web site detail the full ran ...

Europe's new one-stop patent system is winning over companies despite initial criticism from lawyers and some multinationals of the scheme, which is expected to come into effect in 2016. Telecom ...

Foxconn, contract manufacturer in China, has sold patents to Google. Also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, people in the electronics industry call the company Apple's captive manufacturer because ...

Google will pay a share of Samsung's legal fees to help Samsung fight a patent battle against Apple. The Cupertino, Calif. company has sued Samsung for infringing on five paten ...

Samsung again led the way in mobile patents granted last year, topping other tech heavyweights including IBM, Qualcomm, BlackBerry, Sony and Microsoft. AT&T made the top 10 list for mobi ...

Rovi has agreed to buy Veveo for about $62 million, the companies announced late Monday. Per the deal, Rovi will add Veveo's content personalization and contextual search tools to i ...

Google has been ordered to pay I/P Engine, a patent licensing subsidiary of Vringo, the royalty rate of 6.5% on a part of AdWords revenue. The lawsuit dates back ...

A federal jury found that Google infringed on SimpleAir's patent. The Mountain View, Calif. company could pay as much as $125 million in damages. The jury specifically points to t ...

Media Management Inc. has patented its ad auditing platform called Circle Audit. The firm claims it is "the only media audit firm that utilizes a patented software solution." The syst ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Google nearly 2,000 patents last year, nearly double the amount in all previous years combined. The Financial Times estimates it put the technolo ...