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		<title>What Google&#8217;s FTC Deal Means for the Patent Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8216;s landmark deal with the U.S. government, which was announced last week and ends a two-year federal investigation, has gotten a lot of attention, primarily for the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s conclusion that Google has not violated antitrust law. But the second component of the pact, in which Google agreed to grant rivals access to certain basic technology patents, is worth scrutiny as well, because it could have important ramifications in the ongoing intellectual property wars that have roiled the technology industry over the last several years. During a press conference, FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz asserted that the patent agreement with Google could serve as a &#8220;template&#8221; for other patent disputes, and could reduce patent litigation &#8212; and litigation costs &#8212; for companies throughout the tech industry. That, of course, would be a good thing, because there is general agreement among tech and legal experts that there is something seriously wrong with the current U.S. intellectual property system, at least with respect to technology patents. Several of the largest tech companies in the world &#8212; including Apple, Google, and Samsung &#8212; are engaged in very costly and time-consuming patent litigation in multiple jurisdictions around the world. And in a remarkable milestone, last year Apple and Google spent more money on intellectual property &#8212; both litigation and defensive acquisitions &#8212; than on research and development. (MORE: Google’s Federal Antitrust Deal Cheered by Some, Jeered by Others) Google&#8217;s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility was one such defensive acquisition &#8212; Google bought the company in part for its vast stable of some 17,000 tech patents &#8212; and that purchase is at the center of the FTC&#8217;s deal with the search giant. In the tech world, there is a certain category of patents called &#8220;standard-essential patents,&#8221; which cover widely used technologies based on industry standards that allow high-tech devices to work together. &#8220;These essential patents and others like them are the cornerstone of the system of interoperability standards that ensure that wireless internet devices and mobile phones can talk to each other,&#8221; Leibowitz said. For example, Motorola owns standard-essential<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65945&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Federal Antitrust Deal Cheered by Some, Jeered by Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government&#8217;s decision not to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google is a major victory for the search giant, which has been under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for nearly two years. After what FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz described as &#8220;an incredibly thorough and careful investigation,&#8221; the five commissioners concluded unanimously that they lacked sufficient evidence to charge Google with antitrust violations, in a vindication for legal experts and industry observers who argued repeatedly that the FTC&#8217;s case was weak. The settlement between Google and the FTC, announced Thursday, represents a bitter blow to several of the search giant&#8217;s rivals, including Microsoft, that have been urging government action against the search titan for several years. There is no doubt that Google is dominant. The Web titan based in Mountain View, Calif., accounted for 74.5% of all U.S. search advertising revenues in 2012, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, Microsoft&#8217;s share of U.S. search advertising revenues reached just 8% in 2012. Google&#8217;s critics have alleged that the company unfairly demotes rivals in its search-engine results in order to steer users toward Google’s own competing products. But as legal experts have observed, a monopoly in a given market is not, by itself, illegal. What’s illegal is seeking to achieve or maintain a monopoly through anticompetitive practices. And after a long and in-depth investigation — the FTC reviewed more than 9 million pages of documents — federal regulators charged with policing antitrust abuses concluded that Google has not violated U.S. antitrust law. (MORE: In Major Victory, Google Dodges Federal Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC Deal) Reasonable people can and do disagree about whether Google&#8217;s conduct has been anticompetitive, especially with respect to its effort to leverage its Web dominance to make inroads in search verticals such as travel, dining and shopping. And the debate over Google&#8217;s search market power will no doubt continue for years. But as a matter of federal law and policy, this issue is over, at least for now. &#8220;Even though people would like us to bring a big search-bias case, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65771&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013: Six Tech/Media Stories to Watch</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/02/tech-and-media-6-business-predictions-for-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2013, most tech consumers will be asking if it&#8217;s smart to buy a new computer, smartphone, or tablet device. As the structural shift from desktop to mobile computing races forward, hardware and software manufacturers are searching for an integrated solution. Apple and Google lead the pack on the software front &#8212; even as their surrogates engage in costly and time-consuming patent litigation around the world. Samsung (a key Google partner) is the global handset leader. Apple makes the best-designed consumer devices in the world. Here are six tech/media predictions for 2013. Google Will Settle Antitrust Probe With the Feds &#8212; It&#8217;s time for this nearly two-year investigation to end. As I wrote three months ago, the federal government’s probe of Internet search giant Google will most likely conclude with a settlement that averts a major lawsuit. The Federal Trade Commission has been exploring whether Google has used its search power &#8212; 70% market share &#8212; to harm rival companies unfairly. Google has offered a set of voluntary concessions addressing complaints about its search practices. But after European officials said that they were preparing even harsher sanctions for Google, the FTC punted the probe into this year (2013). If Google and the feds reach a deal, it would represent a huge victory for Google, and a major defeat for the companies that have accused it of acting unfairly. (MORE: Will Google Escape a Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Over Web Search?) Patent Progress Continues &#8211; Isn&#8217;t it just about time for the patent wars to end? Consumers want to see tech giants Apple, Google, and Samsung compete in the marketplace fair-and-square, not bicker in courtrooms around the world. The real winners of the patent wars are the $1,000-per-hour lawyers who represent these global behemoths around the world. For the first time, Apple and Google spent more last year on intellectual property than research and development. That&#8217;s not a good sign. Apple’s $1 billion victory over Google&#8217;s key Android partner Samsung in August was the most decisive victory in Apple’s patent proxy war against Google. Is patent peace possible? It’s worth noting that neither Apple CEO Tim Cook nor Google CEO<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65452&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 5 Tech Biz Stories of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, smartphones outnumber basic mobile phones. Apple&#8216;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android devices &#8212; which are more powerful than the top consumer PCs of just a decade ago &#8212; are changing our habits. Consumers are using smartphones to compare prices at brick-and-mortar retailers. Innovative startups are using these devices to make entrenched markets more efficient. And the &#8220;social networking&#8221; phenomenon continues forward, as people everywhere join Facebook and Twitter to connect and share content with friends, relatives, and strangers. In 2012, tech titans Apple and Google solidified their market power, even as questions percolated about how each company plans to remain on top of its respective market. (Google is currently staring down the barrel of a major federal antitrust investigation.) Meanwhile, relative upstarts Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon tested the public stock market and each encountered a harsh response from investors. Far from an apocalypse, 2012 was a year of ascension, as Apple CEO Tim Cook asserted his leadership following the passing of his mentor Steve Jobs, and Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo, in an appointment that highlighted the lack of female CEOs at America&#8217;s most high-profile companies. (MORE: Lessons from Facebook’s Instagram Photo Flap) Apple vs. Google Tech War &#8211; In 2012, it become clear that the most high-profile battle in technology is between Apple and Google, two tech juggernauts that bring radically different visions to the marketplace. As the locus of computing shifts from the desktop to the mobile device, Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android have emerged as dominant platforms. This fight is bigger than just a commercial clash between two tech titans. It’s a war between two fundamentally different visions of technology, described in simplistic terms as closed vs. open. Apple’s model is end-to-end control over the iPhone process, from hardware to software, while Google’s strategy has been to distribute the Android system for free in order to leverage innovation from hardware makers and the software developer community. Each company has been wildly successful: Apple generates over $10 billion in profit annually on iPhone sales, while Google&#8217;s Android is now the top mobile operating system on the planet. Given the intensity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=65235&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple CEO Tim Cook Announces U.S. Mac Production, Warns: &#8216;Don&#8217;t Bet Against Us&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s up with Apple CEO Tim Cook? The normally low-key 52-year-old operational wizard, who assumed command of Apple last year following the death of Steve Jobs, has been on something on a publicity tour this week, with a cover story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and an appearance Thursday night on Rock Center with Brian Williams. Cook&#8217;s media blitz comes at a critical time for Apple, as the company is navigating what will surely be the biggest holiday sales season in its history. Apple is also facing renewed Wall Street scrutiny over the fact that its stock price has fallen by more than 20% over the last three months. Then there are the persistent questions about working conditions at massive Chinese factories run by Foxconn, where most of Apple&#8217;s gadgets are manufactured. Add an increasingly bitter patent fight with hardware giant Samsung &#8212; it&#8217;s widely viewed as a proxy fight against Apple&#8217;s arch-enemy Google &#8212; and it&#8217;s not hard to see why Cook would want to get out there and tell the Apple story from his perspective. In his interview with Brian Williams, which aired Thursday night at 10 p.m. EST, Cook came across as he has in past public appearances: stiff and guarded, with a quiet intensity and seriousness that was punctuated only occasionally by forced smiles. By his own admission, Cook, a native of Robertsdale, Ala., who attended Auburn and Duke and worked his way up the Silicon Valley ranks before being hired by Jobs in 1998, is a &#8220;very private person.&#8221; It&#8217;s clear that he&#8217;s still getting used to his role in the public eye, as CEO of the world&#8217;s most valuable technology company. &#8220;This is kind of your television coming out,&#8221; Williams remarked toward the end of the interview. (MORE: Apple vs. Google Is the Most Important Battle in Tech) The big headline from the interview was Cook&#8217;s disclosure that Apple, which has faced criticism for outsourcing much of the company&#8217;s manufacturing to China, plans to &#8220;do one of our existing Mac lines in the Unites States.&#8221; In the Bloomberg interview Cook said the company plans to spend $100 million<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=63456&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Progress: What Apple and HTC&#8217;s Landmark Pact Means for the Patent Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. After years of lawsuits and untold tens of millions in legal fees, Apple, the world&#8217;s largest technology company, has agreed to cease all current patent litigation against Taiwanese hardware giant HTC, a major ally of Google, which controls Android, the world&#8217;s most ubiquitous mobile-operating system. This deal, announced late Saturday night, could — I emphasize the word could — augur a new phase in the great digital intellectual-property wars that have roiled the technology industry for the past decade. At a minimum, the pact is a bold move by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has helmed the Cupertino, Calif.–based tech juggernaut for slightly over one year, since the passing of his mentor, revered Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who vowed &#8220;thermonuclear war&#8221; against those he felt ripped off the iPhone — including HTC. This deal, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, is the most important strategic move that Cook has made during his tenure and signals a new and welcome pragmatism by Apple as it continues its proxy war against Google and Android. This agreement is not an end to overall hostilities between Apple and Google. In fact, it could just be the first step in a lengthy, complex and contentious series of patent-licensing deals between these two companies. (MORE: Patent Peace: Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry Page in CEO Talks) &#8220;With this win in hand, Apple has set a base price for what it wants to get in licensing revenue and will go after the real enemy: Google,&#8221; says Vivek Wadhwa, a tech-policy expert who holds appointments at Duke and Stanford. For years, academics, analysts and business leaders have bemoaned the state of the current U.S. patent-law regimen. Until last weekend, most of the major tech giants, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and HTC, were engaged in litigation and counterlitigation in dozens of jurisdictions worldwide. For the past several years, there’s been an escalating intellectual-property arms race gripping the tech world — and the weapons of choice have been patents. Put simply, these patent wars have spun out of control. This could have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=60684&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Google&#8217;s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google stunned Wall Street Thursday by accidentally releasing its third-quarter earnings report four hours ahead of schedule. Even worse, the search giant's financial figures came in well below analyst expectations on both overall revenue and profit. Taken together, the botched earnings release and the soft numbers caused Google shares to fall off a cliff by 9% in mid-day trading, wiping out $20 billion in market value in under 20 minutes before trading in the stock was halted by the NASDAQ exchange for some two-and-a-half hours. Once trading resumed, Google shares inched higher. This debacle raises several questions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=52219&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple vs. Google Is the Most Important Battle in Tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, Microsoft Internet Explorer battled Netscape Navigator in the great Web-browser wars. In the 2000s, Google and Yahoo locked horns over Internet search &#8212; and we know how that turned out. Today, the latest high-stakes tech conflict is between Apple&#8217;s iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android mobile operating system for supremacy in the smart-phone market. Each of these clashes defined an era of Internet history. Apple vs. Android is no different. Everyone agrees that the struggle for Internet advantage is shifting to the mobile realm, and iPhone and Android have surged to the front of the pack with diametrically opposed business models. Neither of these players will be vanquished anytime soon &#8212; these battles take years to play out &#8212; but the company that gains the upper hand will be best positioned to take advantage of the massive structural shift from desktop PCs to smart phones and tablets. Apple and Google realize how huge the stakes are in this fight. Apple&#8217;s late CEO, Steve Jobs, revolutionized the mobile-phone market with the iPhone, and he was furious when Google launched Android because he was convinced it ripped off features from the iPhone. (In August, a San Jose, Calif., federal jury agreed.) Google, meanwhile, has poured millions of dollars into developing Android and billions more bolstering its intellectual-property position by buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. (MORE: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Raps Apple on iPhone Maps, Floats Yahoo! Search Pact) This smart-phone showdown is important because Apple and Google are advancing radically different business models to the fight. This is bigger than just a commercial clash between two tech titans. It&#8217;s a war between two fundamentally different visions for the future of computing, described in simplistic terms as closed vs. open. Apple&#8217;s model is end-to-end control over the iPhone process, from hardware to software to the mobile applications that it must approve for sale in the App Store. Google’s model has been to distribute the Android system for free to the developer community at large and let a thousand flowers bloom. Each company has been successful with its respective strategy: Apple makes $1 billion per<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=51502&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Raps Apple on iPhone Maps, Floats Yahoo! Search Pact</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/26/googles-eric-schmidt-raps-apple-on-iphone-maps-floats-yahoo-search-pact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s executive chairman Eric Schmidt was in Tokyo Tuesday, and he used the occasion to express his frustration with Apple&#8217;s decision to yank Google Maps off the new iPhone 5. That move prompted a minor furor in the tech world, because Apple&#8217;s map application is inferior to Google Maps, which is generally viewed as the gold standard for mass-market mobile mapping products. Schmidt, who served on Apple&#8217;s board of directors until 2009, when Steve Jobs kicked him off over the obvious Android conflict-of-interest, asserted that Google would like to remain partners with Apple on a variety of mobile fronts, including web search, but acknowledged that the ball remains in Apple&#8217;s court. Schmidt also made some eyebrow-raising remarks about the possibility that Google, the undisputed web search leader, might link up with its erstwhile competitor Yahoo!, which is now run by a well-respected Google alumna. The iPhone 5 maps dustup is just the latest front in an epic battle between Google and Apple for supremacy in the mobile computing market. Apple&#8217;s late co-founder Steve Jobs went utterly ballistic when Google launched its Android mobile operating system. He was convinced that Android was ripping off Apple&#8217;s iPhone features. So he kicked Schmidt off the board, launching an increasingly bitter rivalry between the two tech giants that continues to this day. Apple&#8217;s worldwide intellectual property (patent) campaign against Samsung, HTC, and other Google partners (including the search giant&#8217;s newly acquired Motorola Mobility division) is really a proxy fight against Android, which Tim Cook continues to wage on behalf of his departed mentor. (MORE: Google Fiber Issues Public Challenge: Get Up To Speed!) Apple and Google&#8217;s mobile models are diametrically opposed. Apple has succeeded with end-to-end control over the iPhone process, from hardware to software to mobile apps. Google&#8217;s model is to unleash the Android system for free to the hardware and developer community at large, in order to leverage the power of developers and builders worldwide. The result is that Apple makes vastly more money on each iPhone it sells, while Android has chalked up astonishing market-share gains, growing to lead the global mobile OS market in just 5 years. Apple&#8217;s decision to yank Google Maps off the new iPhone is a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=50224&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Peace: Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook, Google&#8217;s Larry Page in CEO Talks</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/31/patent-peace-apples-tim-cook-googles-larry-page-in-talks-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s late co-founder and revered CEO Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about Google&#8217;s Android mobile operating system. Specifically, as he told his biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs felt that Google &#8220;f*cking ripped off the iPhone.&#8221; Jobs pledged to devote his &#8220;last dying breath&#8221; and spend all of the company&#8217;s cash to &#8220;destroy Android, because it&#8217;s a stolen product.&#8221; He vowed &#8220;thermonuclear war.&#8221; Apple&#8217;s $1 billion victory over key Android partner Samsung last Friday was the most decisive victory yet in Apple&#8217;s worldwide proxy war against Google. But could peace be on the horizon? That&#8217;s the prospect raised by a new Reuters report &#8212; since backed up by other news organizations &#8212; that reveals ongoing patent discussions between current Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page. It&#8217;s worth noting that neither Cook nor Page was CEO when the original iPhone-Android patent war kicked-off. That spat led to then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#8217;s polite exit from Apple&#8217;s board of directors. Jobs, a demanding perfectionist prone to towering rages, felt Schmidt stabbed him in the back, as the vivid quotes above illustrate. There may have been too much bad blood between Jobs and Schmidt to even contemplate any sort of patent peace. Now that Cook and Page &#8212; both of whom are known to posses cooler heads than Jobs &#8212; are in charge, is a rapprochement possible? It&#8217;s certainly an appealing prospect, given how much time, energy and money has been spent litigating this intellectual property dispute in jurisdictions worldwide. (READ MORE: Apple’s $1 Billion Patent Win Over Samsung Rattles Google’s Cage) Page and Cook have been holding what appear to have been secret (until Thursday), back-channel discussions &#8220;about a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies,&#8221; Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The two tech honchos held a parley on the subject last week and are expected to hold talks again in the coming weeks, according to the report. Their lieutenants are also conducting ongoing discussions. For those who view the present U.S.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=48017&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple and RIM Hit With Patent Suit for “Drag,” “Tap” and “Scroll”</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/04/13/apple-and-rim-hit-with-patent-suit-for-drag-tap-and-scroll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Roberts </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Texas shell company says Apple and others have infringed on technology for basic smartphone gestures like dragging and “double tap.” The patents were issued in 2007 to a Taiwanese maker of touchpad technology. In lawsuits filed this week, a shell called “Touchscreen Gestures” claims devices like the iPhone, the iPad and the Blackberry Playbook are infringing on its technology. A related suit accuses Samsung’s Galaxy tablet of violating the same patents. The patents are US  Patent 7190356 (“A method of identifying double tap gesture”), US Patent 7180506 (“A method for identifying a movement of single tap 7180506) and US Patent 7184031 (“A method identifying a drag gesture”). (MORE: Should Americans Care About Apple’s iPhone Factory Conditions?) A fourth claim takes aim at scrolling, invoking US Patent 7,319,457 (“Method of Scrolling Window Screen by Means of Controlling Electronic Device”). All four patents were issued in 2007 and 2008 to Taiwanese company Sentelic, a privately-held company that makes touch-pads. CNET last year spoke poorly of the firm in reviewing a laptop:  ”The touch pad is equally terrible, which is to be expected: it’s a Sentelic. Erratic behaviour and terrible software is the hallmark of a Sentelic pad.” To be valid, a patent must be new and non-obvious. (Our mobile editor Kevin Tofel notes, “Windows CE / Pocket PC had on screen tapping around 2000 and Palm even before that.”) It’s unclear how the patents made their way from Sentelic to the Texas court room. The most likely explanation is that they were purchased by one of a growing number of professional “patent trolls” — firms that don’t make anything but amass patents in order to make a business of suing deep-pocketed companies like Apple. The trolls typically pick a plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction like East Texas where rural juries have frequently issued verdicts in the tens of millions of dollars. The troll problem is becoming more acute in 2012 as top patent lawyers leave their firms to partner with hedge funds in trolling ventures. Defenders of trolls (more politely called “non practicing entities”) say the patent lawsuits are a way to promote innovation. Critics say the lawsuits are a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=34401&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AOL Stock Soars 40% on Billion Dollar Patent Sale to Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/04/09/aol-stock-soars-40-on-billion-dollar-patent-sale-to-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street cheered AOL&#8217;s deal to sell $1 billion worth of patents to Microsoft, sending the onetime Internet pioneer&#8217;s stock soaring over 40% Monday to levels not seen in nearly two years. For Microsoft, the deal highlights the premium that tech companies are willing to pay in order to bolster their intellectual property position and protect themselves as patent litigation continues to escalate across the tech industry. Monday&#8217;s deal is part of a larger conflict over intellectual property being waged among some of the biggest names in technology &#8212; both on the software and hardware side. Patents have become tools for corporate warfare, devices to extract licensing fees from rivals and assert ownership over key aspects of widely-used technologies like mobile computing, web advertising and social networking. AOL is selling over 800 of its patents to Microsoft &#8212; and granting a non-exclusive license to the software giant for 300 more &#8212; for $1.056 billion in cash. The companies didn&#8217;t disclose the specific nature of the patents, but said the patents span &#8220;core and strategic technologies including advertising, search, content generation/management, social networking, mapping, multimedia/streaming, and security among others.&#8221; Importantly, as part of the deal, AOL also receives a license to the patents being sold to Microsoft. (More: As Yahoo Cuts Jobs, Proxy Battle, Facebook Patent War Heat Up) One reason why AOL&#8217;s stock may be soaring today is that investors hadn&#8217;t expected the company&#8217;s patents to fetch such a lofty price. As recently as late last month, AOL&#8217;s patent portfolio had been valued at $290 million, according to one expert who told Bloomberg that &#8220;most of AOL’s patents are not commercially viable, or junk grade.” Junk or not junk, Microsoft was clearly willing to pay up for them. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great deal for AOL,&#8221; Clayton Moran, an analyst with Benchmark, told Reuters. &#8220;Investors had anticipated little to no value for the portfolio &#8211; a few hundred million at the most.&#8221; AOL has been under pressure lately to generate more value for shareholders, and Monday&#8217;s deal has clearly pleased investors. According<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=33870&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Yahoo Cuts Jobs, Proxy Battle, Facebook Patent War Heat Up</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/04/04/as-yahoo-cuts-jobs-proxy-battle-facebook-patent-war-heat-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling Internet giant Yahoo announced 2,000 layoffs Wednesday as it mapped out its latest plan to reverse a years-long slump that has seen the web pioneer become eclipsed by younger rivals. But new CEO Scott Thompson faces several daunting challenges, including a proxy fight with a powerful hudge fund investor and an escalating patent war with social networking juggernaut Facebook. The latest layoffs represent about 14% of Yahoo&#8217;s workforce, and will save the company some $375 million annually moving forward. In a memo to employees, Thompson said the changes will allow the company to become &#8220;a smaller, nimbler, more profitable Yahoo! better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.&#8221; Thompson said the latest re-organization would focus attention on leveraging the &#8220;massive data sets&#8221; of information about the vast pool of users that make Yahoo one of the top properties on the web. &#8220;We have to unlock the value in our data to allow us to really understand our 700 million users, encourage and win their engagement and trust, leverage everything they do with us to more fully personalize their experiences, and to give our advertisers the immediate insights they are rightfully demanding,&#8221; he wrote. Thompson, who become CEO in January 2012, faces a number of challenges, most notably a governance fight being waged by activist investor Dan Loeb, who runs a hedge fund called Third Point Capital, which has invested over $1 billion to acquire a 5.5% stake in Yahoo. Loeb has proposed a slate of new board members, including himself, former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker; former MTV Networks president Michael Wolf and turnaround expert Harry Wilson. (More: Yahoo Sues Facebook in Patent Shakedown) Yahoo has said it&#8217;s willing to consider Wilson, but not the other proposed candidates, setting up an expected power struggle at the company&#8217;s annual meeting this summer. In anticipation of the fight, Loeb has set up a website to advocate for his agenda, ValueYahoo.com. &#8220;In the absence of independent shareholder leadership, Yahoo has repeatedly failed to execute a consistent operating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=33468&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handicapping the Yahoo/Facebook Patent Battle</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/15/handicapping-the-yahoofacebook-patent-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Roberts </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gathering. Will the patent gamble actually work?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=31286&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/14/meet-the-10-patents-yahoo-is-using-to-sue-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Roberts </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Yahoo went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings. We’ve provided here abstracts of those patents for your reading pleasure. You can also click through to see the whole patent yourself or else check out our attempt at a plain English translation of the patent lawyers’ gobbledy-gook. Based on our reading, Yahoo may now own all of Silicon Valley or else the US patent system is even more dysfunctional than we imagined. (MORE: Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents) And now, without further ado, meet Yahoo’s would-be Facebook killers: US Patent 7454509 Online playback system with community bias  (Filed 2001, Issued 2008) A method for entertaining individuals according to a community having similar tastes. Information derived from user accounts form the basis of a community and collateral preferences allow other subscribing individuals to enjoy the benefit of wider-ranging tastes according to the preferences expressed by the other members of the community. Additionally, assuming that individuals sharing one preference in common may be likely to share others, the present method allows those who choose to listen to the “fan station” the ability to enjoy similar music or other data streams according to preferences expressed by the fan community as a whole. In plain English: A music station based on what you and your friends listen to US Patent 7599935  Control for enabling a user to preview display of selected content based on another user’s authorization level (Filed 2005, Issued 2009) Enabling a first user to preview content as it would be seen by a second user, if the second user had a selected user relationship with the first user. The selected user relationship may include a relationship degree, a relationship category, a relationship rating, and/or other form of relationship. In one embodiment, a user interface enables the first user to assign user relationships to portions of content and to other users. The first user selects a user<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=31164&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and Zynga May Escape The Latest &#8220;Patent Troll&#8221; Suit</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/08/facebook-and-zynga-may-escape-the-latest-patent-troll-suit/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/03/08/facebook-and-zynga-may-escape-the-latest-patent-troll-suit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Roberts </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game. But one lawyer says the patent in question could be KO’d by video games from the late 1990’s. The patent in question is US Patent No. 7076445 which claims to invent a payment system that lets users buy things “without interrupting the game.” The patent’s new owner claims the maker of a new generation of games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Barn Buddy are infringing its technology. (MORE: Zynga Shares Jump on Facebook IPO Connection) The patent owner may have a problem, however, if game makers can show that the payment system existed before 2000 when the patent application was filed. And several games from the 1990’s may help them do just that. Jim Gatto, who leads the Social Media, Entertainment and Technology team at Pillsbury law firm, says he is looking at QuizQuiz and other games made by Korean firm Nexon that may include a similar payment system. He also says multi-player role-playing games like Achaea are “of interest.” Gatto adds that games involving multi-player engagements and transactions grew out of virtual worlds designed in the 1980’s by MMOG pioneer Richard Bartle. (MORE: Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents) If the earlier games contain the same payment technology as that described by US Patent No. 7076445, then Facebook and the game makers can ask a court or the US patent office to declare it invalid. In legal terms, earlier work—including video games—is known as “prior art” which is used to determine if a patent is indeed new and non-obvious. As patent suits have engulfed the technology sector in recent years, firms like Article One Partners have emerged that reward people who can provide prior art to knock out suspect patents. The owner of the virtual payment is a shell company called Gametek LLC but for now it’s not possible to determine who is behind the shell. The last<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30563&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Scores in Patent Fight Against Google and Motorola</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/06/apple-scores-in-patent-fight-against-google-and-motorola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has won a key victory in a closely-watched intellectual property case after a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over information related to its Android mobile operating system and its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The ruling, by U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner in Chicago, is a blow to Google as it tries to defend Android from Apple&#8217;s claims that the search giant copied many of its features from the iPhone. Since 2010, Apple has been waging a proxy way against Android by targeting Google&#8217;s largest hardware partners, particularly Motorola. Before he died, Apple CEO Steve Jobs made the issue a priority for his company, because he was convinced that Google had used Android to rip off Apple&#8217;s designs. In a 2010 meeting with Google&#8217;s then-CEO Eric Schmidt, Jobs famously dismissed the notion of a $5 billion settlement, according to Walter Isaacson&#8217;s 2011 biography of the Apple founder. (MORE: AT&#38;T Is Pulled — Unwillingly — Into the Great Patent Wars) I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple&#8217;s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I&#8217;m going to destroy Android, because it&#8217;s a stolen product. I&#8217;m willing to go thermonuclear war on this. I don&#8217;t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won&#8217;t want it. I&#8217;ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that&#8217;s all I want. Since then, Apple has pursued Motorola relentlessly, most recently demanding that Google turn over information related to the company&#8217;s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. That move was widely seen as a defensive gambit to bolster Google&#8217;s intellectual property position in the face of escalating patent lawsuits from Apple and Microsoft. (MORE: Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents) In 2010, Apple sued Motorola Mobility over patents its says relate to &#8220;core features of the Android operating system,&#8221; including smartphone touch-screens and user interface technology. Motorola has filed a countersuit against the iPhone-maker. Both trials are set to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30420&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/28/yahoo-to-facebook-pay-us-or-well-sue-you-over-patents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The escalating war between technology companies over intellectual property has had a number of unfortunate consequences, but perhaps none is sadder than the spectacle of an ailing Internet giant using the threat of patent litigation to extract money from an up-and-coming firm. Yet that appears to be Yahoo&#8217;s strategy, by demanding that Facebook pay it licensing fees &#8212; or else face a potentially costly patent dispute. Yahoo says it owns patents for as many as 20 technologies that include online advertising, social networking, and messaging, according to The New York Times, which first reported the company&#8217;s threats against Facebook. Yahoo called Facebook on Monday to inform the booming social network, which could be worth $100 million after its IPO later this spring, that it currently infringes on those patents. As a result, Yahoo demanded that Facebook pay it licensing fees to cover those technologies, or face litigation. (MORE: Facebook, Google Overtake Yahoo In Display Ad Market Share) “Yahoo has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders to protect its intellectual property,” Yahoo spokesman said in statement cited by the paper. “We must insist that Facebook either enter into a licensing agreement or we will be compelled to move forward unilaterally to protect our rights.” A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment. Yahoo has had a particularly rocky several months, as the company seeks to turn around a years-long slide that has seen it eclipsed, not only by one-time rival Google, but also by social media upstarts like Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo still has a huge audience, but it no longer commands the respect it once did as an Internet pioneer. Last September, Carol Bartz was fired as CEO and in January, co-founder Jerry Yang left the company. In February, board chairman Roy Bostock resigned, clearing the way for Yahoo to sell its valuable Asian assets, but those talks have faltered. Now Yahoo appears to be throwing itself head-first into Silicon Valley&#8217;s escalating patent wars, which have been particularly heated in the mobile phone space, if not between social networking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=29800&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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