IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Monday that it has renewed and refiled trademark applications for the name of the classic 1990s one-on-one fighting video game series Killer Instinct.
The announcement immediately provoked speculation in the gaming community about a reissue of the original games on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade, or even an entirely new installment
IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Tuesday that it has forged a licensing agreement with Research in Motion Ltd. for its latest technology to optimize flash memory storage, widely used in smartphones and other devices.
The Blackberry maker will now be able to use Microsoft’s Extended File Allocation Table, known as exFAT, a modern file system
IPNews® – A newly published Microsoft Inc. patent application for an “immersive display experience” featuring 3-D projections across a user’s environment sheds light on what the next generation of the company’s video game systems could look like after the Xbox 720 makes its debut.
The patent application, filed in March 2011 and published last week
IPNews® – The patent for Microsoft’s latest rendition of its famous Xbox was recently published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The look and feel of the new Xbox will be closer to a desktop computer with the addition of two smaller gaming consoles that are combined for single use and an upgradeable
IPNews® – After a year-long patent infringement dispute, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have reached a settlement and in doing so also created a new partnership.
Details of the settlement were not available, but it is assumed that the formation of the new partnership was a key factor. The new subsidiary will include Barnes &
IPNews® – In a $550 million agreement, Facebook has purchased the rights to 650 patents that Microsoft recently acquired from the flailing America Online (AOL).
Although Facebook becomes the owner of the patents, Microsoft will retain a license to the patents as well, allowing Microsoft the ability to use the technology in the future. The
IPNews® – With Asian technology giants on its heels, IBM managed to keep its top patent holder spot for the nineteenth straight year. With 6,180 new patents in 2011, IBM is facing stiff competition in the rankings from companies such as Samsung, who had an eight percent growth with 4,894 new patents.
With only two American
Los Angeles – Microsoft was recently awarded a design patent for the slider design on smartphones that Nokia may use to create unique devices. Unlike the usual slider phone designs, the new patent is for a phone that allows the keyboard to sit flush with the screen when opened, which would allow users to type more
Los Angeles – Microsoft, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, and other technology companies joined forces in filing objections to Nortel’s proposed bankruptcy sale of more than 6,000 patents to Google, claiming that the deal would give Google an unfair advantage in the cell phone business.
Nortel is a Canadian telecommunications company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January
Los Angeles – The United States Supreme Court upheld a 2009 decision that Microsoft must pay $290 million in damages in a patent infringement case involving its Word software technology. In doing so, the court upheld the current clear and convincing standard for invalidating patents.
In 2009, Microsoft was found guilty of infringing on patents