9 Best Articles in 2022
The New York Times
Opinion | What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
The New York Times
~13 min read · From 2018 · A review of the company’s patents indicates Facebook’s commitment to collecting and exploiting detailed personal information.
Slate
Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents?
Slate
~12 min read · From 2019 · Most of these patents are basically science fiction. Companies love them anyway.
Co.Design
The Real Difference Between Google And Apple
Co.Design
20+ min read · From 2017 · Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures.
VICE
U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’
VICE
4 min read · 2021-02-03 · The U.S. Navy's “UFO patents” sound like they've been ripped from a science fiction novel.
teslamotors.com
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
teslamotors.com
2 min read · From 2015 · Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
The New York Times
A Wristband to Track Workers’ Hand Movements? (Amazon Has Patents for It)
The New York Times
8 min read · From 2018 · The e-commerce giant has won two patents for a tracking technology that can nudge a human hand in the right direction — toward a warehouse bin, say.
SearchEngineJournal®
The Mechanics of E-A-T: How Google Patents Can Help Explain How E-A-T Works
SearchEngineJournal®
9 min read · 2020-10-28 · While we don't know all the ways E-A-T impacts search, looking at Google patents can give us an understanding of what Google's algorithms are capable of.
Forbes
Where Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Next
Forbes
2 min read · From 2020 · If you want to know where a technology is going, follow the patents.
OneZero
The UI/UX Patterns You Literally Can’t Use
OneZero
~20 min read · 2021-02-02 · Exploring design patents from tech companies
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Financial Times
Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse
Financial Times
3 min read · Jan 18th · Meta hopes to use tiny human expressions to create virtual world of personalised ads
STAT
Facing intense criticism, Moderna pauses bitter dispute with the NIH over Covid-19 vaccine patents
STAT
1 min read · 2021-12-19 · Moderna is pausing its bitter dispute with the NIH over its Covid-19 vaccine patents.
Business Insider
Amazon Ring patents describe a dystopian future where networks of cameras identify 'suspicious' people by recognizing their…
Business Insider
4 min read · 2021-12-15 · The patents reveal a vision of a world where all the cameras in a neighborhood work together to create composite images of "suspicious" people.
The New York Times
Google Infringed on Sonos Speaker Technology, Trade Court Rules
The New York Times
4 min read · Jan 6th · The company will not be allowed to import products that infringe on Sonos patents, including smart speakers, video streaming devices, and some computers and phones.
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ABS-CBN News
Billionaire Musk releases all Tesla patents to help save the Earth
ABS-CBN News
From 2019 · Elon Musk announced Thursday he had released all of the electric carmaker Tesla's patents, as part of an effort to fight climate change.
ZDNet
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
ZDNet
~15 min read · From 2018 · By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.
Cointelegraph
China Filed The Most Blockchain Patents In 2017
Cointelegraph
3 min read · From 2018 · China is the global leader in filing for patents on Blockchain technology, filing more than double the US.
Boston Consulting Group
The New IP Strategy
Boston Consulting Group
9 min read · From 2018 · Just a few years ago, companies guarded their patents jealously. They weaponized intellectual property and chased through the courts those who “stole” their ideas. Times have changed. Today companies have eased off the fury and started collaborating for their mutual benefit. Boston Consulting Group experts Wendi Backler, Tatu Heikkilä and Derek Kennedy dive into how and why leading patent holders are working with companies that own less intellectual property. getAbstract recommends this insightful report to technological innovators or anyone interested in contemporary business practice.
Marginal Revolution
Patents are Not the Problem!
Marginal Revolution
4 min read · 2021-05-06 · For the last year and a half I have been shouting from the rooftops, “invest in capacity, build more factories, shore up the supply lines, spend billions to save trillions.” Fortunately, some boffins…
TNW
The MP3 format is officially dead
TNW
3 min read · From 2017 · the Fraunhofer Institute - the German agency that invented the MP3 format and licenses patents for it - has officially terminated its licensing program.
The New York Times
Steve Jobs’s Patents
The New York Times
4 min read · From 2015 · The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products.
Joel Spolsky
Victory Lap for Ask Patents
Joel Spolsky
8 min read · From 2013 · There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent fr…
blog.locut.us
Arguments you can make as a startup CTO against filing for software patents
blog.locut.us
3 min read · From 2015 · Most software engineers believe that software patents are bad for innovation, and shouldn’t exist. Unfortunately, this isn’t a good argument against filing for software patents, since it’s essentially a complaint about the rules of the game, but as a startup CTO you still have to play the game, regardless of what you think of the […]
