Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Beyond Windows 8: Patent Hints To A Future Streaming OS — Microsoft already has an idea how the Windows operating system may evolve after Windows 8. A patent filing entitled “Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage” describes a chain of storage devices with different priorities …
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Microsoft objects to Nortel patent sale terms — (Reuters) – Google should not be able to buy thousands of patents belonging to bankrupt Nortel Networks under current sale terms, Microsoft said on Monday, the deadline for bids in an closely watched auction.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 — A new lawsuit takes aim at the accelerometer- and gyroscope-powered abilities of Apple’s iPhone 4, alleging that the interactive, three-dimensional input methods are in violation of a U.S. patent.
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Sharp, Samsung settle all outstanding LCD patent cases — IDG News Service – Sharp and Samsung have put nearly three years of battling over LCD panel and module patents behind them with a deal that ends all ongoing patent infringement disputes, they said Monday. — Both companies declined to disclose details of the agreement.