Patent Office articles

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  Patent Office, DOJ weigh in on the improper use of standards patents to ban products

  By Matt Macari on January 9, 2013 01:20 pm + 7 comments

  The US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Department of Justice joined the ever-growing debate Continue reading…

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  Patent Office asks the public for advice on software patents

  By Matt Macari on January 4, 2013 01:00 pm + 216 comments

  In an announcement yesterday in the Federal Register the US Patent and Trademark Office invited the Continue reading…

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  Apple finally gets its patent on a rectangle with rounded corners

  By Matt Macari on November 7, 2012 04:24 pm + 346 comments

  There's been a lot of talk over the last couple of years — especially by Samsung during the course Continue reading…

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  Stack Exchange and Google partner with US government to battle bogus patents

  By Ben Popper on September 20, 2012 10:23 am + 174 comments

  The tech industry has been plagued over the last decade with an explosion of patent trolls who Continue reading…