Nokia hocks Qt to Digia, trades 500 patents to Vringo for a quick cash injection.

Microsoft is currently receiving royalties from almost all major Android tablet manufacturers including Samsung, Buffalo and HTC. You may remember that Barnes and Noble talked their way out of this deal when they turned their Nook spinoff into a Microsoft/Barnes and Noble joint venture. However, two lower end tablet makers who go by the name ‘Coby’ and ‘Aluratek’ have also [...]

The Google-Motorola deal has reached two steps closer to its goal, as the U.S and the E.U anti-trust gave the deal a green signal.

After Motorola’s recent victory against Apple in Germany, Apple is fighting back with a photo gallery patent which may help it get an injunction against Motorola products.

Microsoft patent shows Ultraviolet rays being used to sterilize touch screen devices.

A Dutch court has refused to grant Samsung an injunction banning the sale of Apple products in the Netherlands. This is the latest in a series of victories for Apple.

Some iOS and Android developers are planning to take down their apps for 5 days and boycott Apple and Google for their lack of support against patent trolls like Lodsys and Macrosolve.

Apple has won a big injunction in its patent fight with Samsung. A Dutch court has ordered that Samsung’s widely successful Galaxy line of smart phones cannot be sold in the Netherlands. This would cripple Samsung’s ability to sell the phones in European Union.

Microsoft has been granted a patent on adaptive video streaming, a technology used by rivals Adobe and Apple. A similar implementation has also been deployed by Hulu.

Microsoft invited Google to join the bid for Nortel patents which Google declined.

Alcatel-Lucent has won a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, which was filed back in 2003. It has won $70 million in damages, for a patent related to touch screen form entry in applications like Outlook.

Microsoft’s patents about gestures reveals more about the company’s one cloud based OS to rule them all strategy.

An epic run down of the Impulse patents that Microsoft has been sued for and Microsoft’s patent portfolio regarding body and gesture tracking.

Impulse Technology Ltd., an Ohio company has sued Microsoft in Delaware’s federal court alleging that the Kinect for Xbox 360 infringes on seven of its patents.

Infamous patent troll Lodsys is threatening even application developers who aren’t using in-app purchase mechanisms by exploiting the ambiguous nature of its patents.