Patents

A Closer Look At Apple’s Latest Patents

3 Sep 2010

Apple has been granted nine new patents, and I thought I'd take a look at the claims therein and see whether they match up to the descriptions, and whether they seem (to this humble blogger) like realistic items for which to gain exclusive rights. I've included links to all the patents, but the USPTO office is behaving strangely, and often returned an error when I tried to pull up documents ...

Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown

3 Sep 2010

conceivably Tech: "Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down."

Celgene's Revlimid patents challenged by Natco

3 Sep 2010

Celgene Corp. said Friday that Natco Pharma Ltd. is challenging the biotechnology company's patents on the cancer drug Revlimid and it plans to defend them.