9 Best Articles in 2022
The New York Times
Opinion | What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
The New York Times
~13 min read · · A review of the company’s patents indicates Facebook’s commitment to collecting and exploiting detailed personal information. · Shared by 115, including Katja Evertz, tjalve, Richard Gutjahr, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , @nitot@framapiaf.org ➡️ 🐘, Ariane van der Veen, mdy, George M 🇪🇺, Fern, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Daniel Bentes, Merkstatt@troet.cafe
Slate
Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents?
Slate
~12 min read · · Most of these patents are basically science fiction. Companies love them anyway. · Shared by 70, including Matthias Lampe, Esther Schindler, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, 瑞拿頭
Co.Design
The Real Difference Between Google And Apple
Co.Design
20+ min read · · Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures. · Shared by 213, including Martin Recke, Courtney Bolton ★, Chris Messina, Leslie D, Mihai M, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Weiting Chen, Johannes Lenz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Ryan Hulland, Philippe Surber, Dominik Grolimund, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Stephen C Sanders, Benjamin Wiederkehr, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Matthieu de Luze, René Clausen Nielsen, Kris Fannin, 🚀 Perspective IX
The New York Times
Steve Jobs’s Patents
The New York Times
4 min read · · 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. · Shared by 53, including hiten.eth, Richard Joerges, Kunal Bhatia (✈️ LA)
VICE
U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’
VICE
4 min read · · The U.S. Navy's “UFO patents” sound like they've been ripped from a science fiction novel. · Shared by 84, including Brian Roemmele, John Nosta, Carla Gentry
teslamotors.com
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
teslamotors.com
2 min read · · 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. · Shared by 101, including Mark Needham, Charles Kubicek, Inês Silva, Dave, Sylvie Reinhard, Kunal Bhatia (✈️ LA), Andreas Von Gunten, Courtney Bolton ★, Roger Wernli, Francisco Trindade, Adriano Latorre, Simon Hanson, Jeff Heuer, Dawid Ferenczy Rogozan 🦇🇪🇺🇨🇿, Kartik Narayanan, Matthias Sala, Richard Joerges, Christian Reiter
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing Companies with the Most Patents Granted in 2021
Visual Capitalist
~15 min read · · In 2021, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted a total of 327,798 utility patents For almost three decades, IBM has been granted more patents each year than any other U.S. company… · Shared by 67, including Harold Sinnott 📲 #DigitalTransformation, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #CES2023, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Sintetia, ipfconline #CES2023
The New York Times
A Wristband to Track Workers’ Hand Movements? (Amazon Has Patents for It)
The New York Times
8 min read · · 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. · Shared by 49, including Richard Gutjahr, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Thomas Power, Gerardo Segura, Howard Getson, designshard, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖
SearchEngineJournal®
The Mechanics of E-A-T: How Google Patents Can Help Explain How E-A-T Works
SearchEngineJournal®
9 min read · · 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. · Shared by 43, including AJ Ghergich, Cindy Krum 📱, Dr. Marie Haynes🐼, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, Heather Lloyd-Martin, Cyrus, Lily Ray 😏, Danny Goodwin
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ipwatchdog.com
Using 5G/WiFi 6 to Illustrate Structure and Advantages of Cross-Domain SEPs
ipwatchdog.com
4 min read · · Cross-Domain standard essential patents (SEPs), in the current context, denote the patents essential to two or more diverse domains that have distinct standards developed by different Standard Setting… · Shared by 6, including Elena Neira, Nicolas Babin #CES2023
Futurism
Boston Dynamics Sues Competitor That Put a Gun on Its Robodog
Futurism
2 min read · · Boston Dynamics is suing computer Ghost Robots, alleging that their rival robot maker has infringed on patents related to the Spot quadruped. · Shared by 6, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
TechCrunch
Ghost Robotics fires back against ‘baseless’ Boston Dynamics lawsuit
TechCrunch
2 min read · · A legal dispute against robotics patents is devolving into a war of words, as Ghost Robotics fires back against Boston Dynamics. · Shared by 6
TechCrunch
Boston Dynamics sues Ghost Robotics over robot dog patent infringements
TechCrunch
2 min read · · Boston Dynamics filed a suit in the Delaware court system on November 11, alleging Ghost of infringing on multiple patents. · Shared by 6
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Forbes
Where Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Next
Forbes
2 min read · · If you want to know where a technology is going, follow the patents. · Shared by 126, including LARRY ELKAN, Andreas Staub, Gengo 🦁, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Florian Graillot, John Nosta, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Matthias Lampe, Katja Evertz, Blake Morgan, Oliver Ewinger, Iain Brown, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Terence Mills
OneZero
The UI/UX Patterns You Literally Can’t Use
OneZero
~20 min read · · Exploring design patents from tech companies · Shared by 111, including Matt Navarra, AI, Neil Hart 💙, Brian Ahier
ABS-CBN News
Billionaire Musk releases all Tesla patents to help save the Earth
ABS-CBN News
· Elon Musk announced Thursday he had released all of the electric carmaker Tesla's patents, as part of an effort to fight climate change. · Shared by 29, including Tauno, Tillmann Lang, Moritz Meenen
ZDNET
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
ZDNET
~15 min read · · 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. · Shared by 191, including fernand0, Luca M. Sergio, @luca@vis.social, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Leo Blazquez, Bradley Cloete, Thomas Telandro, Tris Hussey, Linus Basig, Nils Hitze, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Dominik Grolimund, Rand Fishkin, Jose Luis Calvo, Benedict Evans, Michael Duergner, Mary Jo Foley, Oleg Baskov, Oliver Ewinger, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Boston Consulting Group
The New IP Strategy
Boston Consulting Group
Summary · 9 min read · · 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. · Shared by 29, including getAbstract
Cointelegraph
China Filed The Most Blockchain Patents In 2017
Cointelegraph
3 min read · · China is the global leader in filing for patents on Blockchain technology, filing more than double the US. · Shared by 23, including Thomas Power, Oleg Baskov
TNW
The MP3 format is officially dead
TNW
3 min read · · the Fraunhofer Institute - the German agency that invented the MP3 format and licenses patents for it - has officially terminated its licensing program. · Shared by 67, including Stephen C Sanders, Weiting Chen, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, DON’T PANIC, Carlos Jonay Suárez Suárez, Ⓓarío Macchi, Tauno, Daniel Jörg, Mark Kaigwa, Bertrand Maltaverne, Austin Sandmeyer 🔥
Marginal Revolution
Patents are Not the Problem!
Marginal Revolution
4 min read · · 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… · Shared by 86, including Alex Tabarrok, Steven Pinker, David Boaz, Brendan Nyhan, tylercowen, Steve Faktor, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Devon ☀️ in Austin soon!
Joel Spolsky
Victory Lap for Ask Patents
Joel Spolsky
8 min read · · 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… · Shared by 20, including Philippe Gauvin, sandijs ruluks
