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A federal jury finds that Samsung owes Collision Communications nearly $445.5M in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standards (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/samsung-hit-w…

There had been a patent on mask ROMs and it finally expired just a few months ago.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050254280A1/en

heh, the patent on the setuid bit persuaded ken thompson that patents were worthless https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association
The federal government wants a bigger slice of the semiconductor pie through patents.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

Where does a western chemical plant that contaminated drinking water go next? To India https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/miteni-factory-pfas-plant-italy-india

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

Patent Language Model Pretraining with ModernBERT
Amirhossein Yousefiramandi, Ciaran Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14926 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.149…

Patent Language Model Pretraining with ModernBERT
Transformer-based language models such as BERT have become foundational in NLP, yet their performance degrades in specialized domains like patents, which contain long, technical, and legally structured text. Prior approaches to patent NLP have primarily relied on fine-tuning general-purpose models or domain-adapted variants pretrained with limited data. In this work, we pretrain 3 domain-specific masked language models for patents, using the ModernBERT architecture and a curated corpus of over …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115601485570143504
Please submit your comments on this proposed change, which takes away an important method for challenging patents. This seems like a clear give-away to big business and patent troll firms. Let’s not let them …

Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-sues-garmin-demands-stop-sell…

Strava Just Sued Garmin: Demands Garmin Stop Selling Devices
 Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding that Garmin cease selling effectively all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling

The anatomy of Green AI technologies: structure, evolution, and impact
Lorenzo Emer, Andrea Mina, Andrea Vandin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10109 https://ar…

The anatomy of Green AI technologies: structure, evolution, and impact
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key enabler of innovation against climate change. In this study, we investigate the intersection of AI and climate adaptation and mitigation technologies through patent analyses of a novel dataset of approximately 63 000 Green AI patents. We analyze patenting trends, corporate ownership of the technology, the geographical distributions of patents, their impact on follow-on inventions and their market value. We use topic modeling (BERTopic) to identify 16 major …

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

Papers, patents, and tenders show China's military is integrating DeepSeek and Qwen models in weapons like AI-powered drones, and continues to use Nvidia chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/r…

A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)