Twelve candidates from nine countries are competing this year for the European Inventor Award 2010, a highly regarded innovation prize presented annually by the EPO together with the European Commission.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Thomson Licensing, Toshiba Corporation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment today announced that they have formed the BD4C licensing group for Blu-ray and DVD patents.

Boise, Idaho-based Kount, a developer of fraud prevention technology for online and catalog merchants, said this morning that it has filed a patent application covering its device fingerprinting and proxy piercing technology, in hopes of getting protection for its technology. The firm said the patent is a second continuation of an existing patent it received in 2008. The firm said the patent application covers both its device fingerprinting methods, and a its "Proxy Piercer" geo location tool, which is used to determine the actual location of computers behind anonymous web proxy servers.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) held a new public hearing on the Special 301 review, a process that will culminate in the release of the annual Special 301 Report evaluating trading partners' Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protections and enforcement.

Future Uses of This Technology and Set-Top Box Plan to be Implemented in a Wide Variety of Industries

Sir Clive Sinclair won't even read his email from family and friends.

In a recent interview with the UK newspaper The Observer, computer inventor Sir Clive Sinclair said that he finds computers annoying. In fact, Sinclair said that he doesn't use a computer at all. Emails are read aloud by his assistant, as he finds emails just as annoying.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Enzo Biochem today said that the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the US Patent and Trademark Office has entered judgment in its favor against Bayer HealthCare in a dispute over patents covering nucleic acid signal amplification.

IRVINE, CA - Composite Technology Corporation (CPTC) announced in a press release that its subsidiary, CTC Cable Corporation ("CTC Cable"), has received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") an official Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate ("Notice") for US Patent No. 7,368,162 ("'162 patent").

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The owners of the rights to "Rocky Top," the song that's played throughout football season in Tennessee, have settled a copyright lawsuit against the television network A&E.

Xerox filed suit against Google and Yahoo! last Friday claiming that some of their search technology infringes on Xerox's patented tech.