CloudFlare beats patent troll Sable, forcing them to dedicate all its patents to the public ~tech Article 2485 words 48 votes
Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads ~transport Article 671 words 58 votes
Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this. ~life Article 838 words 18 votes
Ferrari patents inverted I6 hydrogen engine with electric turbocharging ~engineering Article 347 words, published Mar 27 2024 14 votes
Harbor Freight cannot easily develop their own flesh detection table saw ~life.home_improvement Article 1463 words 28 votes
Apple to halt sales of latest smartwatches over patent dispute ~tech apple.watch Article 289 words 23 votes
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive ~humanities.history Article 1862 words, published Aug 28 2015 41 votes
The new colonialist food economy - forced use of patented seeds in Africa ~enviro sustainability Article 5080 words 27 votes
Nintendo files patent for magnetic anti-drift joysticks, similar to "Hall Effect" sticks ~games Article 504 words 21 votes
Microsoft patents AI powered backpack, bristling with sensors ~tech microsoft Article 459 words 7 votes
Looking back at the original Chromecast, which just turned ten years old ~tech google Article 847 words 9 votes
Johnson & Johnson has granted Stop TB Partnership license to produce generic bedaquiline in low and middle-income countries ~health medicine Link 33 votes
An open letter to Johnson & Johnson regarding its strategy to extend its patent on bedaquiline leading to a predicted six million lives lost over four years ~health medicine Video 7:25 79 votes
Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking ~humanities.history Video 3:43 15 votes
Why Lego won – the competition looked identical, so how did they pull it off? ~hobbies Video 8:57, published Jan 29 2023 10 votes
Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls ~tech Article 1569 words 11 votes
A series of patent lawsuits is challenging the history of malware detection ~tech security Article 1479 words 7 votes
Lego wins design patent case against German company at EU court – critics say the firm is using its heft to crush competition ~finance business Article 477 words, published Mar 1 2021 6 votes
New Spotify patent involves monitoring users’ speech to recommend music ~tech privacy Article 329 words 25 votes
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive ~humanities.history Article 535 words, published Aug 28 2015 17 votes
United States Postal Service (USPS) files patent for a blockchain-based voting system ~tech Article 368 words 24 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
SoftBank-owned patent troll sues to block COVID-19 tests, using monkey selfie law firm and Theranos patents ~tech Article 19 votes
The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won ~tech Article 3261 words 6 votes
How big pharma was captured by the one percent ~health healthcare medicine Article 3231 words, published Jun 28 2018 4 votes
Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world? ~science medicine Article 2071 words 8 votes
Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception ~tech Article 991 words 8 votes
Is the phrase “patent troll” defamatory? NH Supreme Court may decide ~tech Article 1221 words 8 votes
China ruling could ban some Apple iPhones sales amid Qualcomm fight (affects 6S through X) ~tech apple smartphones Article 256 words 7 votes
Google tried to patent my work after a job interview ~tech google Article 549 words, published May 14 2018 18 votes
100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images. ~tech Article 423 words, published Aug 9 2011 11 votes
Patent Examiner sides with inventor who claims Google is trying to patent his work he dedicated to the public domain ~tech google Article 522 words 20 votes
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs ~comp open source Article 893 words, published Jul 11 2018 28 votes
Facebook patent would turn your mic on to analyze how you watch ads ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 588 words 19 votes