Boston University raised eyebrows in July when it claimed Apple (s aapl) was infringing a nearly two -
decade old patent, and asked a federal court to ban a range of popular products such as the iPhone 5 and the MacBook Air.
Not exact matches
Gothenburg - based FPC has been around for almost two
decades, building a technology business based on an
old Swedish fingerprinting
patent.
Texas court rules that Apple must pay out for infringing six,
decades -
old patents held by pager and telco firm, MTel
Observers see the ruling as the first significant test of the European Union's
decade -
old «biotechnolgy directive,» a policy statement that backed DNA
patents in principle.
Plomer uses the historic overturning by the US Supreme Court of the
decades -
old policy by the US
Patents and Trademark Office on gene patents as an e
Patents and Trademark Office on gene
patents as an e
patents as an example.
«For a long time in Canada and the U.S., there's been uncertainty about whether you can
patent software - related inventions,» says Courage, adding the
decades -
old controversy is still ongoing despite software's place as an important and evolving area of the world economy.
Under the current rules, struggling
old guard firms can exploit a broken
patent system to abuse monopolies over basic software concepts from
decades ago.