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Companies that build their business models around aggressive patent litigation are discovering that approach is less lucrative after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and stricter government policies.

Even as it deals with hot-button issues like campaign financing and affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court has patents on its mind these days.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is setting up a website with advice for anyone accused of patent infringement.

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Patent owners who lose infringement lawsuits should have to pay the winner’s legal fees more often, a U.S. appeals court said in adding its views to a debate before Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit lost an appeals court bid to invalidate a Microsoft Corp. patent used to win a ban on U.S. imports on some mobile phones.

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Military personnel who were the victims of sexual assault can seek disability pay for the psychiatric trauma even if they didn’t officially report the incident.

The verdict was the fourth-biggest patent decision in U.S. history.

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The settlement limiting the firm’s ability to contact Minnesota residents and businesses is believed to be the first of its kind against a company derided as a “troll” for its licensing tactics

Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. won a U.S. appeals court ruling in a case of a former university researcher who claimed his patents covered some of the Internet’s most basic interactive functions.

Following a mixed U.S. Supreme Court ruling on patenting human genes, Myriad Genetics Inc. is looking for a ruling protecting its patents on "breast and ovarian cancer tests."

Samsung Electronics Co. will get another chance to convince a trade agency that Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad infringe its patents.