Microsoft ups the ante in patent wars

AOL to sell patents to Microsoft for $1.1 billion

Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell • The Register

Apple has launched a new patent assault on its competitors, one that appears to unleash the nukes that Steve Jobs reportedly told his biographer Walter Isaacson he was going to drop on Google's Android. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product," the late Ap …

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High court throws out human gene patents

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers.