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Ilium Software today is pleased to announce eWallet 7.4 for Mac OS X - Password Manager and Secure Storage Database Wallet, an update to their award-winning Productivity app.

Apama Medical, a privately held medical device company focused on the development of next-generation atrial fibrillation technologies, today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No.

Two congressman have written bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing telecommunications companies from monitoring the private activities of their customers, Time magazine reports .

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Judge finds in Oracle's favor against ServiceKey and its CEO, Angela Vines, in case involving Solaris operating system support.

The first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act took effect on March 16, 2013.

Technically, there is no such thing as a "provisional patent." The patent law provides for a "provisional application," which isn't subject to some of the formal requirements for a regular patent application.

Apple is a company that has applied for its fair share of patents, where among the more recent ones which we have seen this year include a possible laser keyboard for iPads down the road, or how about a flexible display just in case its bitter rival, Samsung, rolls out something like that in a smartphone beforehand? Having said that, it would be ... (more)

Patent trolls are companies that don't innovate or create any products that benefit society, but exist solely to assert that they are entitled to payment due to allegedly holding patents to the innovations of others.

Today the USPTO issued guidance to Examiners on how to apply the Myriad Supreme Court decision to applications under examination.

Grant Street Group, Inc., the world's largest internet auctioneer, announced today that an eight-member jury found Realauction.com, LLC of Plantation, Florida liable for willful infringement of a Grant Street patent.

This seminar will cover the main aspects of substantive patent law as evolved by the decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Truck-Lite, Falconer, N.Y., has been assigned a patent developed by Michael Marley, Erie, Pa., for a "headlamp assembly for removing water based contamination."

There aren't a lot of attorneys with Ph.D. after their name. What led you to pursue both a doctorate and JD? It wasn't my plan at the outset.

Debate over ability to patent ideas and business methods could come to a conclusion in the Bilski case this fall.

Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado.

With every tech company from Apple to Google reportedly working on a wearable computer to compete with the Pebble and the Sony smart watch , smart watches are definitely a hot topic on the gadget frontier.

The Supreme Court decision does away with patents and monopolies over lifesaving scientific information that may lead to the cure for cancer.

In its list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , the Rolling Stone ranked the 1967 album The Velvet Underground & Nico at number 13 not bad for the band's very first album.

Getting and staying in shape can be terribly expensive. Even a simple gym membership can cost a pretty penny.