Anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the technology press in recent years knows that the patent system is out of control. Barely a week goes by here at Ars that we don't report on an ...

Inter partes review has changed the patent dispute landscape and strategy, and important insights can be gained from the data, explain Corinne Atton of Venable and consultant April Breyer Menon Inter ...

There is no such thing as a dog-eared e-book -- each copy is forever perfect. But a new Amazon patent could go a long way toward making the digital media in our lives a lot more like the physical ...

Patents are interesting things. While they do not directly provide information on guaranteed products which will hit the market in the near (or long term) future, what they do is provide insight to ...

Google is cagey about exactly how it scans books for its digital library effort, but a patent reveals details--and the hurdles competitors face. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google has filed a pair of patents with the USPTO that aim to reinvent how we interact with printed media. The first patent is for an "Interactive Book" with motion and pressure sensors embedded ...

“[I]t appears that the pendulum is swinging back in favor of Orange Book patent owners. The number of petitions challenging these patents has slowed since the high rates seen in the 2015 and 2016 ...