Hacker News with Generative AI: Patents

Oppose the Patent-Troll-Friendly Prevail Act (eff.org)
Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA).

Law, Patents, Politics, Advocacy

7 points by hn_acker 14 hours ago | 0 comments

Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe (technologyreview.com)
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to try to overturn patents held by competitors by pointing out errors or inconsistencies.

CRISPR, Patents, Science, Biotechnology, Law

167 points by thisismytest 4 days ago | 120 comments

US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday (slashdot.org)

US Government, Law, Patents, Software, Technology

98 points by zoobab 9 days ago | 60 comments

Is 3D printing being held back by an invalid patent? (ycombinator.com)
Parts made using the FFM (FDM) process are stronger in some directions than in others. This is due to imperfect adhesion between printed layers. This directional or anisotropic structural strength is a significant limiting factor for the structural integrity of 3d printed parts made with the common FFM process.

3D Printing, Patents, Material Science

190 points by K0balt 11 days ago | 42 comments

Patents Nintendo Suing Palworld over Confirmed, But, Damn, This Suit Is Weird (techdirt.com)
Patents Nintendo Suing Palworld Over Confirmed, But, Damn, This Suit Is Weird

Lawsuits, Gaming, Patents, Video Games

6 points by hn_acker 12 days ago | 0 comments

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals (techdirt.com)

Law, Patents, Litigation, Intellectual Property

83 points by isaacfrond 13 days ago | 19 comments

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals (eff.org)
In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of patent infringement. Some of these complaints claimed patent rights over basic aspects of modern life; one, for example, involved a patent that pertains to the process of clocking in to work through an app.

Legal Issues, Patents, Lawsuits

10 points by healsdata 16 days ago | 0 comments

Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer (ieee.org)
Patent engineer Lesley-Ann Knee works in the patent prosecution department at the law office of Husch Blackwell, where she helps with writing, filing, and managing patent applications.

Patents, Engineering, Law, Invention

121 points by rbanffy 34 days ago | 106 comments

The logical fallacy at the core of patent law, what does non-obviousness test? (academic.oup.com)
Patent laws in different jurisdictions have in their core a logical fallacy that generations of patent professionals have kept practising while seemingly being oblivious to its existence.

Law, Logic, Patents

12 points by croes 34 days ago | 21 comments

A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities (ieee.org)
Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a classic sales challenge: demonstrating his product’s advantages within the short span of his customer’s attention.

Software, Patents, Switzerland, Business, AI

20 points by geox 40 days ago | 9 comments

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (theregister.com)
Cloudflare on Thursday celebrated a victory over Sable Networks, which the former described as a "patent troll."

Legal Battles, Cloudflare, Patents, Software

451 points by Brajeshwar 47 days ago | 58 comments

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (cloudflare.com)
Sable, the patent troll that sued Cloudflare back in March 2021 asserting around 100 claims across four patents, in the end wound up paying Cloudflare.

Legal Battles, Patents, Public Domain, Technology

1524 points by jgrahamc 49 days ago | 419 comments

Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine (motor1.com)
Porsche has patented a six-stroke internal combustion engine design.

Porsche, Automotive, Engineering, Patents

178 points by tempestn 61 days ago | 361 comments

Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc (nintendo.co.jp)
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter), together with The Pokémon Company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair, Inc. (HQ: 2-10-2 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, “Defendant” hereafter) on September 18, 2024.

Lawsuits, Patents, Gaming

297 points by monocasa 63 days ago | 257 comments

Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls (eff.org)
A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent on watching an ad online. A patent on computer bingo. A patent on upselling.

Law, Patents, Technology, Politics

214 points by speckx 64 days ago | 51 comments

The simhash patent has expired and is now free to use (patents.google.com)
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention address this and other needs by providing a similarity engine that generates compact representations of objects that can be compared to determine similarity between the objects.

Patents, Technology, Algorithms, Open Source

12 points by ubutler 71 days ago | 1 comments

Xockets Files Antitrust, Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nvidia (prnewswire.com)
Xockets, Inc., the inventor of advanced Data Processing Units, or "DPUs," that enable accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, or "AI," in cloud data centers, today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, against Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp., and RPX Corp., alleging violation of federal antitrust laws for illegal monopoly practices and willful patent infringement (docket number 6:24-cv-453).

Lawsuits, Antitrust, Patents, Nvidia

3 points by akshayt 74 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia, Microsoft Accused of AI Patent Theft, Buyers' Cartel (bloomberglaw.com)

Nvidia, Microsoft, AI, Patents, Lawsuits

3 points by kjhughes 76 days ago | 0 comments

US Government funding yielded patents for China-based researchers (reuters.com)

Government Funding, Patents, China, Research

6 points by JumpCrisscross 83 days ago | 0 comments

EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public (eff.org)

Law, Patents, Public Access, Transparency, EFF

102 points by hn_acker 94 days ago | 20 comments

OpenAI's large language model (LLM) patents (blogspot.com)