UK man gets broken iPod for invention.

Orinda Intellectual Properties USA claims patent infringement

Solar cells could be inserted under the iPod screen to power you music. It's only a patent, but we're already dreaming of iPods that never run out of charge.

30 major consumer electronics firms under the spotlight.

Strumming its pain with the finger.

Leigh Dyer has found holes in Steve Ballmer's pledge to work together with open source developers.

Employee monitoring may fall foul of the law.

Lawsuit centres on wireless controller systems.

Big Blue asks ITC to intervene in patent dispute.

Klausner Technologies demands $360m for 'visual voicemail' system.

Negroponte not worried by patent suit.

Coughs up $250m in total.

Redmond forced to provide free, irrevokable patent pledge to non-commercial open source.

First Linux patent claim is here.

Proposed reform would 'stifle innovation'.

Fifteen firms join Apple in row over music list building system.

European Commission gets tough with chip firm.