Microsoft will help cloud customers fend off patent lawsuits and expand coverage of related litigation costs, seeking to distinguish its services from rivals in the fast-growing market for internet-based computing. As more companies host their applications and services on Microsoft’s ...

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The popularity of online fantasy sports leagues has grown steadily over the last decade, with most leagues using the “season-long” format. Under this format, participants select their entire roster of players at the beginning of a season, and then earn ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California jury awarded Apple $119 million — far less than it demanded — in a patent battle with Samsung over alleged copying of smart phone features, and the jury made the victory even smaller by ...

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WASHINGTON — Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation into the search ...

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Tina McKeon, an intellectual property law attorney, will present a talk on “Positive and Negative Data in Patent Procurement — When to Provide it and Why it Matters” at 9 a.m. Thursday at the University of Rochester. The free program, ...

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A “Talk on Patenting Biomarkers and Diagnostic Methods,” will be presented at 9 a.m. March 8 in the Class of ‘62 Auditorium at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Ave. The free program, open to ...

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Rochester area companies new patent application filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office outside of Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp. rose in the fourth quarter of 2011 according to year end patent index figures released last week ...

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The number of patents issued nationally and to Rochester area inventors by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office rose in the third quarter of 2011, according to the latest index compiled and released by intellectual property firm Hoffman Warnick LLC. Patents issued by the USPTO to Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp. ...

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As Spencer Warnick, partner with intellectual property law firm Hoffman Warnick LLC, points out, Rochester has a lot of gifted inventors and scientific talent. Within that local talent base are three Xerox Corp. employees who have produced an amazing amount of patents throughout their respective careers.

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The U.S. arbiter for trade disputes has spurned Apple Inc.’s digital-camera patent claims against Eastman Kodak Co., which is caught in a perilous race to redefine itself in the cutthroat digital-imaging arena. Kodak’s stock, nonetheless, fell 18 cents, or 7.1 percent ...

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Rochester inventors come up with a lot of patents. They came up with 527 in the first quarter of 2011 alone, despite the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a backlog of over 700,000 patent applications. Even without the backlog ...

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The total number of patents issued to Rochester-area businesses increased again in the final quarter of 2010, according to figures released by the Albany intellectual property law firm of Hoffman Warnick LLC. The increase was modest but has been climbing steadily ...

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