IBM marks more than 100,000 patents in 25 years with cloud, cyber security enhancements
The inventors who serve as the backbone of International Business Machines Corp. passed a significant milestone this…
BlackBerry kicks off its patent monetization phase by suing Avaya
Avaya’s products are under fire from BlackBerry. The Canadian smartphone maker has filed lawsuits in the US against…
The case for patent reform in high tech
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Wi-Lan says Apple won patent suit
Canadian patent licensing firm Wi-Lan Inc., said a United States judge has ruled that Apple Inc.’s iPhones…
BlackBerry scores patent win in Florida court
Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry, which has found itself on the wrong end of a number of patent…
A good patent? Or a good patent lawyer? You decide
A friend and his partners recently received the first of three patents after more than three years.…
Microsoft takes Toronto’s i4i to the U.S. Supreme Court
The latest chapter in the Microsoft Corp. versus i4i Inc. patent infringement case court drama has the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing to hear Microsoft’s appeal that, if successful, will have the two companies battling it out over the validity of i4i’s patent
Appeals court again sides with i4i over Microsoft in Word case
The U.S. Appeals Court refuses to hear yet another Microsoft appeal of a jury’s US$240-million award for IP infringement of the Toronto company
Microsoft Word ban takes Canadian partners by surprise
The news a Texas court has ruled against Microsoft in a patent infringement case and banned sales of Word in the U.S. caught many Canadian partners off guard, but they’re confident Microsoft will find a resolution
Microsoft shares trade secrets of Windows, Office
Redmond offers thousands of pages of information on software free of charge in interoperability push