Companies are trying to profit from patents, but do they protect unsung inventors--or opportunist litigants? A News.com story which includes, in large part, digital media patents. Acacia alone has collected…

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Forgent Networks is suing 15 companies—a who’s who of DVR providers—on the grounds that they are infringing on U.S. Patent 6,285,746 (pdf) relating to a computer-controlled video system that allows…

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I wouldn’t read too much into it right now, but keep an eye out for it...A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of new technology for…

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A UK patents court has ruled that the European “Freeny” patent, which covers the downloading and recording of information such as music, news articles and films from a computer onto…

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AdMission Corp., a provider of rich-media processing technology and directional advertising platforms, has been granted a patent for technology that has far-reaching implications for the overall future of electronic media,…

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Not a clue what this means or what kind of mischief it might allow Amazon to make but Jeff Bezos and Ashish Gupta now have patent #6,889,250 for “a method…

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Is this related to the much-vaunted ”collaborative filtering” patent which Amazon.com has? Anyway, Cendant has sued Amazon on the recommendation feature on its site. The company said Amazon.com is infringing…

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Digeo, the Paul Allen-backed maker of software and services for digital cable TV, has settled a patent infringement suit with PalmSource, makers of the PalmOS operating system for handheld devices. …

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AgentArts, a content personalization technology company, has received an interesting patent...it sounds a bit like Amazon.com’s collaborative filtering patent, only more granular: U.S Patent No. 6,763,354 covers the method by…

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BTG, a London-based IP firm, has filed suit against Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and two other Net companies for infringing on patents...the suit, filed in the U.S. Federal Court in Delaware, alleges…

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An intellectual property holding company, DDB Technologies of Austin, Texas, is suing Major League Baseball for what it considers patent infringement on its real-time sports technology, reports News.com. Features allegedly…

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Be worried, very worried..Last week Macromedia settled with Forgent over JPEG patent infringement issue. Today Forgent creates “enhanced intellectual property” site to provide “information on Forgent’s intellectual property program and…

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Say what? According to US Patent 6,785,865 (Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs - Cote et al), the practice of tabbing through hyperlinks on a web page now belongs…

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Adding more technical fuel to its Internet Protocol video-on-demand products, Kasenna has been awarded an additional three patents covering media streaming indexing, content storage and playback. The provider of IP…

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has handed Microsoft a second victory in its dispute with Eolas, rejecting browser patent claims that could roil the Web if upheld. The patent…

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Now both can kill each other in the market instead of the courts...Google will license a patent held by Overture Services, which Yahoo acquired last year. The dispute over that…

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E-Data, a small patent-only company that holds a key digital distribution patent, has reached a European agreement with Apple that gave the company worldwide rights for its iTunes Music Store.…

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According to the quarterly report Adobe filed with the SEC, the company was sued June 2 in U.S. District Court for Colorado by Information Technology Innovation. The suit alleges that…

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I’ve started a new category on the site on patents in digital media sector, and the controversies and issues which come out of enforcing those patents. This category is separate…

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of top 10 patents it wants killed, or at least redefined. The EFF said all 10 patents are in some way illegitimate…

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DigitalContainers, a DRM patent company, has received approval from the USPTO for a second patent, “Tracking Electronic Content”, U.S. Patent No. 6,751,670.  This patent describes a system whereby a secure…

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More patents in digital media: Digital Envoy has been granted a patent for its IP Intelligence technology. The technology pinpoints the physical location of Web surfers down to the city…

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This patent granted last week to AOL may or may not fructify, but it is an interesting way to deliver TV to online IM users… The gist of the patent…

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A UK organisation’s Web patents appear to address many fundamental electronic publishing applications...British Technology Group (BTG) is armed with six patents in its battle with a number of unnamed technology…

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Microsoft filed a blistering brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a $565 million patent infringement judgment. The 174-page document, filed June 3, attacks a U.S. District Court…

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