Microsoft is asking the U.S. Supreme Court is examine and overturn a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by Canadian firm i4i

The list of apps affected by binary planting bugs includes programs such as Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Photoshop, as well as Microsoft apps like PowerPoint 2010

Google has pledged to "strongly defend" open-source standards and protect its Android operating system from Oracle's patent infringement lawsuit

Java creator James Gosling has admitted he is not surprised at Oracle's lawsuit against Google over claims that Android OS breaks Java patents

The ITC rules against Nvidia in a patent-infringement suit begun by Rambus in 2008

NTP is suing technology giants such as Apple, HTC, LG Electronics, Microsoft and Motorola for alleged infringing its email patents in mobile phones

Battery recycling and reducing gold in chips are among the technollogies HP has given to a shared patent scheme

Salesforce.com is accusing Microsoft of infringing on five of its patents, in a lawsuit countering the suit filed in May against the cloud-based software company

Apple has slapped smartphone maker HTC with a second lawsuit, alleging two new instances of patent infringement

The open source giant aims to be a $1 billion company, but CEO Jim Whitehurst was diplomatic about government contracts on a London visit