The roughly 200 smartphone patent suits filed in recent years are only one-quarter the number filed during the first “Telephone Wars” of Alexander Graham Bell’s time. Source: thehill.com

Half of contested IP tossed out of the window Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board is supposed to be a new, efficient alternative that streamlines patent disputes – and it can be. But that depends on … Source: http://www.nationallawjournal.com

Carrier billing allows for easy mobile purchases and can work in markets where credit card penetration is low. Source: uk.businessinsider.com

Credit card giants Visa and MasterCard have recently taken steps to capitalize on the growing mobile payment sector. Source: http://www.forbes.com

CyberSource, a Visa Inc. company, today announced a strategic partnership with Line Corp., a Japan-based Internet services and mobile app company. This agreement will allow Line, a mobile… Source: http://www.4-traders.com

Gemalto today announced it’s working with Tapit to give consumers the ability to buy digital content by tapping their smartphone on an advertisement that features either an NFC tag, QR code or beacon… Source: http://www.4-traders.com

With all the heated rhetoric surrounding the topic, we thought it would be helpful to reach out to people who work with cryptocurrencies on a daily basis to get to the bottom of the most common misconceptions. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Mobile payments and retail tech company Square has acquired Kili Technology, a Toronto-based startup specializing in silicon, electronic and software design.. Source: techcrunch.com

Samsung Pay Mobile Payments System Announced Source: http://www.pinterest.com