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Famous troll Eolas now says any "interaction with images inside a browser" is their patent.

Oracle wants to force the Google CEO to testify in a patent trial, but Larry Page can learn a few things from a veteran subpoena dodger.

After deliberating for almost 11 years (or more likely hoping it would just go away), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted search giant Google a patent for co-founder Sergey Brin's breakthrough "invention" of dressing up his company's website logo with various theme-based drawings called "Doodles."

It looks like Steve Jobs' dream of family-friendly technology might just come true. On Tuesday an Apple patent for an "anti-sexting" device was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

High-speed memory developer Rambus is close to settling a complaint brought against it by the European Commission in 2007, it said Friday.

A patent-holding company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages.

Efforts in the U.S. Congress to overhaul the nation's patent system are again running into objections from inventors, pharmaceutical companies and small technology companies, which say that current legislation could destroy the value of patents.

A Linux group is asking the community to examine patents at the heart of a dispute between Microsoft and TomTom.

HP appealed a recent court decision that reduced the damages it would pay to Cornell in a patent dispute.

IBM last week filed a patent application for an offshore outsourcing methodology that's intended to help companies minimize the financial risks associated with sending work overseas.

Oracle and Alcatel-Lucent have settled a patent dispute stemming from a lawsuit Oracle filed last year.