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

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 …

It feels wrong that one needs to pay an org to be allowed to decode a video format. I know I know, patents etc... but why though?
MP3 back in the day, Apple's ProRes, AVID's DNxHD, this weird HEVC or whatever h26-number we're currently at. This feels like asking for royalties to use a cereal box decoder ring.
ffmpeg's gonna reverse-engineer this anyways. But officially, Linux and Firefox must jump through hoops to download an h264 decoder from Cisco for some reason…

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)

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 …

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

"The Axios Show" exclusive: Lutnick says U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/howard-lutnick-university-patents-research
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p29#a250910p29

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

Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-hi…

Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.

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 …

From scratch to silver: Creating trustworthy training data for patent-SDG classification using Large Language Models
Grazia Sveva Ascione, Nicol\`o Tamagnone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09303

From scratch to silver: Creating trustworthy training data for patent-SDG classification using Large Language Models
Classifying patents by their relevance to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is crucial for tracking how innovation addresses global challenges. However, the absence of a large, labeled dataset limits the use of supervised learning. Existing methods, such as keyword searches, transfer learning, and citation-based heuristics, lack scalability and generalizability. This paper frames patent-to-SDG classification as a weak supervision problem, using citations from patents to SDG-tagged sci…

And Now a New Tax on Patents? -- Trump takes 10% of Intel, as Washington becomes Chinatown on industrial policy. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/and-now-a-new-tax-on-patents-politics-policy-intel-chips-665683e0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p12#a250825p12

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.

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…

I propose a law that forbids companies from claiming copyright, patents or anything else once they end support for their products.
Then we can do a community rebrand of any hardware and reuse it as we please.

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.

Research on Evaluation Methods for Patent Novelty Search Systems and Empirical Analysis
Shu Zhang, LiSha Zhang, Kai Duan, XinKai Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17782 https://

Research on Evaluation Methods for Patent Novelty Search Systems and Empirical Analysis
Patent novelty search systems are critical to IP protection and innovation assessment; their retrieval accuracy directly impacts patent quality. We propose a comprehensive evaluation methodology that builds high-quality, reproducible datasets from examiner citations and X-type citations extracted from technically consistent family patents, and evaluates systems using invention descriptions as inputs. Using Top-k Detection Rate and Recall as core metrics, we further conduct multi-dimensional ana…

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

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…

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