dkd903 writes "After almost two years of litigation of Nokia and Apple suing and counter-suing each other, the patent war between the two companies has come to an end.

An anonymous reader writes "And you thought software patents were going to far? How about geography patents?

A few weeks ago New Zealand Software decided to grant software patents.

Kelson writes "The W3C Widget specification is running into a problem: Apple claims a patent on automatic updates and is unwilling to license it royalty-free in the event that it impacts the spec.