Patents

Monsanto’s Seed Patents May Trump Antitrust Claims, Lawyers Say (Bloomberg)

12 Mar 2010

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Monsanto Co. , facing antitrust probes into its genetically modified seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns, antitrust lawyers say.

Expert witness: Microsoft infringed VirnetX patents, and knew it (seattlepi.com)

11 Mar 2010

An expert witness who looked at Microsoft's source code has determined that the company indeed infringed upon two of VirnetX's patents, knew about the patents, and believed the technology was valuable enough – and not obvious enough – to attempt patenting similar technology itself.

Geneva man goes bounty hunting over expired patents (Daily Herald)

11 Mar 2010

Geneva's Thomas Simonian is a very litigious man - at least when it comes to patents. Over the last few weeks, he's filed more than three dozen product lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Chicago citing expired patents.