Intellectual Property @ IBM

Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case – The New York Times: The do-over award to Apple from Samsung on the patents law suit (and damages) is down to $539M from the original $1B. Here’s info on the original infringement ruling of $1B. VentureBeat has a good take on this as well. The war chest of patents — world wide — is massive in order to play in the smart phone and tablet…

In Part 1 on February 13, “Inequality finds a place in IP where Efficient Infringement Runs Wild,” we emphasized the David vs Goliath nature of patent holding startups trying to get justice against a mega-tech infringer.  Infringement is somehow legally transformed because it is efficient – an odd attempt at rationalizing an illegal action. (Note the new location of our IP Zine and all past blog posts are at www.IntellZine.com.)  Well, just as we acknowledge…

ARM Holdings, the maker of chips and chip making technology has week a favorite here at IPZine. They are basically an IP company holding lots of patents on lots of stuff. They specialize in energy-efficient, reduced instruction set (RISC) chip technology; build it and then license it out to chip makers.They have really taken off into the work of the Internet of Things.Today SoftBank (parent of Sprint) has offered to by ARMH in an all…

YayYo IPO advertised on TV – Business Insider: Dodgy is probably the best term for Yay Yo IPO, for the inner circle, and for the product-less crowdfunding approach using the JOBS act. In the true spirit of a pyramid scheme, Yah Yo has the promise of a product, but there is little or no “there” there. They are selling the business model that they will tie in all the ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft…