A patent-holding company called Minero Digital seeks to exact royalty payments on a wide range of USB hubs, suing more than two dozen retailers and manufacturers last year. But the “non-practicing entity” dropped its East Texas lawsuit against Newegg subsidiary Rosewill within days of getting a call from the company’s lawyer. Newegg Chief Legal Officer Read more about Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case[…]

Graphical slider bars like this – used for setting audio volume, fill color, or the zoom scale of a document – have been around since the dawn of the mouse because it’s obviously the most efficient way of adjustment. But in 2007 Microsoft was granted design patent D554,140 [PDF], giving it rights to the concept. Read more about Microsoft has patented the slider bar[…]

But continues challenging validity of patents Source: Rounded corners on Android phones cost Samsung $548m: It will pay up to Apple after all So, Apple managed to patent the square and also the square with rounded corners. Seriously? We still have patents with this kind of crap?!

Namco patented this idea in 1995 and since then no one has been able to releive the boredom of the loading screen. I’m sure this demonstrates how patents lead to innovation. Not. Source: Loading Screen Jam – itch.io