This week: A Honeywell subsidiary created to assert patents gets stung in East Texas, plus: the Electronic Frontier Foundation knocks out another of its “most wanted” patents, but its “patent busting project” is mighty slow going. Small Firm’s Sweet Win

Zusha Elinson’s amusing sign-of-the-times column, published in today’s Recorder, deserves to be spread wide and far. I’ve been eager for this one since I first began overhearing Elinson dutifully call county fairs and small-town newspapers to track down the gem

TiVo has achieved one of the most famous patent-infringement victories of the past decade, slamming its competitor Dish Network (EchoStar) with a jury verdict that ultimately added up to $105 million—and winning a second nine-digit ruling against Dish this month

The view that software patents are an impediment to progress—common among technologists—is rare among patent attorneys. But Dan Ravicher is not a typical patent attorney. He founded the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat), a public interest group that, according to its

For a guy who feels his business is being cramped by bogus lawsuits, Igor Shoifot comes across as an irrepressible optimist. The 42-year-old Russian immigrant, who runs the photo-sharing site Fotki.com out of a nondescript office building near San Francisco’s

I’ve received a slew of e-mails from law firms and sources over the last few days regarding Facebook’s announcement that, beginning at midnight EST on Saturday, it will allow “usernames” to be tacked on to the end of the Facebook

Recently TPA has reported on a few false marking claims—two lawsuits brought by Public Patent Foundation against Sweet N’ Low and a maker of dietary supplements, and a false marking claim by Juniper Networks against a computer hacker that