Quoted: On Jan. 8, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple Inc. a trademark for the three-dimensional shape of its iPod media player.

This was more than a recognition of an innovative product design. It also was Apple's capping piece in a multiyear marketing and legal campaign that pushed intellectual-property rights to new competitive advantage for the company.

I know Geoff and remember when he was working on RadioMail. Definitely ahead of his time.

Quoted: Geoff Goodfellow came up with the idea of wireless e-mail, but he will never see a penny of the $612.5 million payday that has resulted from the technology.

I haven't read this, but saw it mentioned in a tech blog.

Quoted: A system provides search results from a voice search query. The system receives a voice search query from a user, derives one or more recognition hypotheses, each being associated with a weight, from the voice search query, and constructs a weighted boolean query using the recognition hypotheses. The system then provides the weighted boolean query to a search system and provides the results of the search system to a user.

Quoted: The Supreme Court debated the rights of inventors Wednesday, weighing in on a dispute between eBay and a small Virginia patent holder.