drugs Government to pharma companies: stop registering sham patents to delay generics Rob Beschizza

apple Apple just patented a modular display system with a record player connected to it David Pescovitz

makers Building a "Fractal Chair" from a 1913 patent Gareth Branwyn

patents Patented tube for breathing air from behind toilet bend during a fire Rob Beschizza

gadgets Apple patents "that made people lose their minds" Rob Beschizza

Engineering Coat hanger radio David Pescovitz

patents Pillow with a built-in hand to hold David Pescovitz

patents Eddie Van Halen once filed a patent for a "musical instrument support" with some awesome artwork Thom Dunn

artificial intelligence An AI that invented two things can't receive patent Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Patent for a toy turtle operated by houseflies David Pescovitz

happy mutants Make: a non-patent-infringing enclosure for your 3D printer Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Adversarial Interoperability Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning" Cory Doctorow

amazon New Amazon patent application reveals "solution" to missed Alexa instructions: always on recording Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful Eight leaker was caught Cory Doctorow

fraud How the patent office's lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Insider sources say Apple is shutting its east Texas stores to escape the jurisdiction of America's worst patent court Cory Doctorow

Business How Epson's patent trolling is killing the EU market for replacement ink Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter's patent claim over Ethiopia's ancient staple grain teff Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Houseplant patent EULA: "Asexual reproduction using scions, buds or cutting is strictly prohibited" Cory Doctorow