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John Green May Have Just Helped Save Millions of Lives

By Alyssa Shotwell Jul 14th
Mario’s in Your Hands: Nintendo Switch May Have Image Projection, According to Patents

By Jessica Lachenal Oct 24th
Amazon Patented Taking Pictures In Front of a White Background

By Carolyn Cox May 9th
Obama’s Office Killed Impending iPad/iPhone Sales Ban

By Glen Tickle Aug 4th
Big Brother is Charging: Proposed Phone Battery Tracks Your Every Movement to Save Power

By Maia Brown-Jackson Jul 25th
Supreme Court Declares Victory for Common Sense, Denies Patents for Naturally Occurring Human Genes

By Victoria McNally Jun 13th
Kind of a Big Deal: Google Offers Patents for Use by Open Source Developers

By Glen Tickle Mar 28th
FTC Finds No Evidence to Suggest Bias in Google Search Results, Concludes Investigation

By Rollin Bishop Jan 3rd
Apple and Google Join Forces to Purchase Kodak Patents, Hell in Process of Freezing Over

By Rollin Bishop Dec 8th
Microsoft Wants to Count Number of Folks Watching Television, Could Charge Per View Eventually

By Rollin Bishop Nov 5th
Apple Issues Absurdly Snide U.K. Acknowledgement That Samsung Didn’t Infringe on Their Patents

By Rollin Bishop Oct 26th
U.S. Patent Office Invalidates Apple Patent Used in Samsung Trial, Puts Jury Ruling at Risk

By Rollin Bishop Oct 23rd
Apple Will Actually Have to Run Ads in the U.K. Saying Samsung Didn’t Infringe on Their iPad Patents

By Rollin Bishop Oct 18th
Skewed Priorities: Apple and Google Spent More on Patents Last Year Than They Did on R&D

By Rollin Bishop Oct 8th
Samsung Adds iPhone 5 to Apple Lawsuit, Patent Madness Continues

By Rollin Bishop Oct 3rd
Go Daddy Patents Announcing Domain Registrations on Websites, Clearly Nothing Wrong With System

By Rollin Bishop Sep 27th
Stack Exchange Launches Ask Patents to Help Stop Patent Tomfoolery

By Rollin Bishop Sep 20th
Google+ Might Finally Embrace the Internet, Allow Anonymous Profiles

By Rollin Bishop Sep 18th
Apple v. Samsung: Jury Rules Samsung Owes $1.049 Billion

By Mike Epstein Aug 25th
Context-Free Patent Art Is Deliciously Surreal

By Eric Limer Apr 18th