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How did Facebook patent lawyers succeeded to receive patent of user’s status an location update ?

Facebook was recently granted a patent in the US for location based services, which allow location identification of social network members and publication of information based on the identified members’ location. The claims of the original Facebook application, filed in … Continue reading →

Israel Patent Database

In early 2008 the Israeli Patent Office (IPO) had launched a search engine that only allowed searching the fields of title and bibliographical details of granted Israeli patents. Before 2008 one could only search for a granted patent manually by … Continue reading →

Patent Accelerated Examination

Patent Offices of Australia, UK and Canada have recently reached an agreement for cooperating in patent prosecution. The agreement, known as the Vancouver Group Agreement, allows these countries to expedite patent examination more efficiently than procedures such as Patent Prosecution … Continue reading →

Microsoft filed a complaint against Salesforce.com

Microsoft filed a complaint against Salesforce.com which provides customer relationship management (CRM) service software. Microsoft claims that Salesforce.com infringes nine of its patents. Microsoft, usually finds itself on the receiving of patent lawsuits. Microsoft last complaints  include  Belkin in 2006, … Continue reading →