Hacker News with Generative AI: Patents

What Netflix's patents reveal about the future of watching movies (stephenfollows.com)
Netflix’s patents offer a rare glimpse into the future that major streamers are building for film and television.

Netflix, Streaming, Film, Television, Patents

11 points by daphnemichala 19 days ago | 10 comments

Top Patenting Powerhouses of 2024 (ieee.org)
In 2006, IEEE Spectrum ranked patenting powerhouses in our first annual patent survey.

Patents, Technology, Business, Rankings

5 points by rbanffy 26 days ago | 8 comments

Fox Succeeds in Scrapping Machine Learning Claims at CAFC Under 101 (ipwatchdog.com)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday addressed an issue of first impression in the patent eligibility context, holding that “claims that do no more than apply established methods of machine learning to a new data environment” are not patent eligible.

Law, Patents, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

3 points by zoobab 31 days ago | 1 comments

Ford Patents a Manual Gear Shifter for EVs (insideevs.com)

Ford, Electric Vehicles, Patents, Automotive Industry, Technology

6 points by geox 51 days ago | 0 comments

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder (eff.org)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else.

Patents, Law, Technology, Government

316 points by healsdata 63 days ago | 101 comments

Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More (gamerant.com)

Gaming, Patents, Nintendo

70 points by jarsin 97 days ago | 86 comments

What does it mean that MP3 is free? (idiallo.com)
The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal. But, surprisingly, almost no one noticed. Why? Because the world of technology has changed so drastically that MP3's significance has faded into the background.

Technology, Audio, Software, Licensing, Patents

164 points by foxfired 107 days ago | 103 comments

Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent (tomshardware.com)

China, Technology, Patents, Undersea Cables

9 points by omer9 130 days ago | 1 comments

Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent (tomshardware.com)

China, Technology, Patents, Underwater

7 points by LorenDB 130 days ago | 1 comments

ExFAT patents set to expire in early 2027; filesystem to become public domain (patents.google.com)
An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided.

Software, Patents, Public Domain, File Systems

10 points by mouse_ 160 days ago | 0 comments

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals (eff.org)

Law, Patents, Technology, Legal Issues

114 points by croes 179 days ago | 11 comments

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, Advocacy, Technology, Government

90 points by batch12 183 days ago | 8 comments

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 184 days 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 188 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 192 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 194 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 195 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 196 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 200 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 217 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 217 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 223 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 230 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 232 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 245 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 247 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 247 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 254 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).