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.
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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.
Reader View · 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 · From 2017 · Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures.
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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.
Reader View · Shared by 128, including hiten.eth, Richard Joerges, Kunal Bhatia
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.
Reader View · Shared by 84, including Brian Roemmele, John Nosta, Carla Gentry
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.
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Visual Capitalist
Visualizing Companies with the Most Patents Granted in 2021
Visual Capitalist
~15 min read · Apr 27th · 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…
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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.
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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.
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TNW
The rise of AI is pushing patent laws to their limits
TNW
3 min read · May 30th · Society needs to consider the impact of AI on the innovation system, particularly on laws regarding intellectual property and patents.
Reader View · Shared by 15, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Merkstatt, Bob E. Hayes, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
The Fashion Law
Patents in the Metaverse: From Sneakers to Hardware for the Virtual World
The Fashion Law
4 min read · May 18th · Nike’s “Cryptokicks” is one of the most widely-covered patents when it comes to the metaverse and virtual fashion/footwear.
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Slashdot
RED Sues Nikon For Infringing On Its Video Compression Patents
Slashdot
2 min read · May 28th · RED filed a lawsuit yesterday suing (PDF) Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents. PetaPixel reports: The lawsuit was filed in a southern California federal court today and asserts that…
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Slashdot
Supreme Court Rejects Apple's Bid To Continue Fighting Over Two Qualcomm Patents
Slashdot
2 min read · Jun 27th · The Supreme Court declined Apple's bid for a hearing over two Qualcomm patents (US Patent No. 7,844,037 and US Patent No. 8,683,362) that were part of lawsuits filed in 2017, claiming infringement by…
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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.
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OneZero
The UI/UX Patterns You Literally Can’t Use
OneZero
~20 min read · 2021-02-02 · Exploring design patents from tech companies
Reader View · Shared by 110, 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
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.
Shared by 29, including Tauno, Tillmann Lang, Moritz Meenen
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.
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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.
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.
Reader View · Shared by 23, including Thomas Power, Oleg Baskov
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…
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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.
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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…
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