patents

Networking Blog: "Now, with Google purchase of Motorola Mobility, Android's maker will have the patents it needs to retaliate."

Datamation: Google is buying another 1,023 patents in a bid to bolster its intellectual property stance against Microsoft and others.

Begin Linux: "Linux is a disruptive technology. It has completely changed the game forever. Patents were created to protect the ideas of inventors, but what happens when inventors want to give their ideas away for free?"

InternetNews: Dell's open source credibility, Symantec slams a rival, IBM's patents and Linus Torvalds' views on user space

Preliminary ruling on patents filed in 1994 and 1996 could lead to per-licence fee payment on HTC handsets - or an import ban by the end of the year. By Charles Arthur and agencies

Tech Drive-in: "According to Microsoft, Google's Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft."

D-Wave Systems, after some 12 years of research, the accumulation of 60 patents, and the filing of 100 more, has finally released the world's first commercial quantum computer.

Microsoft is misusing patents in an attempt to marginalize the competition to Windows Phone 7 posed by Android and other open source operating systems, says Barnes & Noble.

Under the new agreement, Microsoft will sell its Novell patents to Attachmate in exchange for access to licensing fees.

Linux and Open Source Blog: "We often think of Microsoft as being the aggressor in patent lawsuits. Who can forget their efforts to patent smilies or, more recently and seriously, its anti-Android patent lawsuits.

But, remember that Microsoft has often been found guilty of violating patents itself in such cases as against Uniloc."