Data center sector gets more crowded with names like IBM, Cisco, Microsoft...
The subsea data center operations will be cooled by the surrounding water and designs with turbines or tidal energy systems, which would further reduce electricity costs, have been considered. Although...
View ArticleFCC’s Tom Wheeler looks to extend his chokehold on ISPs with broadband...
ISPs have increasingly come under the focus of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the agency’s chairman, Tom Wheeler. The FCC is fresh from a major victory on its net neutrality rules...
View ArticleIn BASCOM v. AT&T the CAFC says software patent eligible again
This case arrived at the Federal Circuit on an appeal brought by BASCOM from the district court’s decision to grant a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6). In the majority opinion Chen made much of...
View ArticleIAM Market provides patent marketplace for 22 top tech vendors, seeks to grow...
With 22 vendors currently on the IAM Market, the online portal has seen about 50 percent growth since launching last year. “To be honest, my ambition is that we’d be further down the road than we are...
View ArticleAT&T, Time Warner merger could trigger FCC rulemaking on zero rating practices
Another regulatory issue other than antitrust thatis likely to surface during review of the AT&T-Time Warner merger is zero rating, or the practice of providing content for free to consumers on a...
View ArticleSling TV unveils cloud DVR tech giving Americans more reasons to ‘cut the cord’
On Thursday, December 15th, Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) subsidiary and over-the-top (OTT) television delivery service Sling TV unveiled a new cloud-based digital video recording (DVR) technology....
View ArticleAT&T Settlement Agreement Admissible in Sprint Patent Litigation
The Federal Circuit found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the AT&T settlement agreement for several reasons. First, the agreement covered the same patented...
View ArticleVoIP-Pal.com prevails in 7 separate IPRs, PTAB finds no evidence of invalidity
In two final decisions and five decisions on IPR institution, the PTAB panel of administrative patent judges (APJs) found that petitioners Apple and AT&T did not meet the required burden of proof...
View ArticleThree Outstanding IP Deals of 2017
These IP deals were not necessarily selected for their size, but for their indicative nature of a set of circumstances that exist in current markets that made these deals not only possible, but...
View ArticleTiVo Files Patent Lawsuits against Comcast, Only Major U.S. Pay-TV Provider...
TiVo files patent lawsuits, the latest steps TiVo has taken in the hopes of resolving the renewal of a long-term licensing agreement that TiVo has already has already finalized with other major...
View ArticleEnabling Technologies and the Underinvestment Problem
Certain innovations—known as enabling technologies—provide the foundation for progress across a range of industries. Enabling technologies include mobile wireless, the laser, CT scanners, the...
View ArticleOpen Invention Network: A Mission to Maintain Open-Source Status for Linux...
As Jaime Siegel, OIN’s Global Director of Licensing, notes, OIN is able to grant free membership to companies joining the consortium thanks to the efforts of eight full-funding member companies which...
View ArticleMIT Prior Art Archive: An Overstated Solution to Patent Examination
According to statistics provided by the USPTO, since the beginning of fiscal year 2012, the Office has received a total of only 1,584 third-party submissions of prior art for consideration by patent...
View ArticleRestrictive IP Policies Could Limit Innovation Opportunity
In the wake of fraudulent IP applications from foreign nations—namely China—the United States has recently enacted or called for policies that require foreign entities to complete more thorough IP...
View ArticleJustices Won’t Consider Whether CAFC’s Claim Construction Constitutes a...
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied a petition that asked it to consider whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) “construction of petitioner’s patent claim was...
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