Intellectual Property

Twitter Avoids Lawsuit, Licenses Hundreds of IBM Patents

Twitter has agreed to license more than 900 patents from IBM, to end a legal battle that began when IBM threatened to sue…

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is being accused – again – of shoving out someone integral to the development of a […]

In a California data breach case that could have national implications, the state’s attorney general is suing Kaiser Foundation Health […]

Billionaire entrepreneur and public enemy of patent troll firms Mark Cuban has a new target: a patent assertion firm that […]

Intellectual Ventures is seemingly the aristocrat of trolls. It presents itself as responsible, and it rarely litigates, explain Jeff Matsuura […]

An Arizona district court found that BioD failed to make its copyright infringement case against the founder of Amino Technology, […]

The Nebraska attorney general recently put trolling for patents right up there with soliciting child pornography and selling designer drugs, […]

Now-defunct email service Lavabit’s defense claiming that providing unencrypted missives to the court violates privacy was not as compelling to […]

U.S. and European antitrust agencies are likely to continue to focus on intellectual property, financial services and pharmaceuticals in 2014.