Intellectual Property

Under the Radar: Two Tales From the Secret Life of Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Qualcomm, Websites, Nokia, Trolls, Patents, Intellectual Property, Corporations, Lawsuit, Business News
Brian Kahin

The patent system is often portrayed as the defender of creativity, but as it's grown powerful, it's become a tool to extract settlements from little guys with the threat of astronomical legal costs.

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Patents for All: The System That Could Not Contain Itself

Brian Kahin | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Patent Lawyers, Congress, Intellectual Property, Patent, Patents, Patent Law, Business News
Brian Kahin

The question of just what is patentable is far too complex for Congress to handle -- especially given that even modest patent reform legislation has stalled.

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Reading The Tea Leaves: China's Huawei and 3Com

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Cisco, Intellectual Property, Bain Capital, 3Com, Huawei Technologies, Cnooc, Unocal Corp, TS-CDMA, Committee on Foreign Investment, China, Lenobo Group, China Business, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

When the best minds in the world are put to work on creating new inventions together, it's the consumer that benefits.

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Shameless, Illegal & Not Possibly Profitable: Browsing QuickSilverScreen.com

Shelly Palmer | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Pirated Movies, Quicksilverscreen, Linking, Piracy, Bootlegging, Fox, Intellectual Property, File Sharing, Entertainment News
Shelly Palmer

The people responsible for this particular experience are doing it because they can. Of course, they are also stealing from the rightsholders and breaking the law, but this is not news either.

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China Agrees To Safety Plan For Food, Drugs

AP | Christopher Bodeen | Posted 12.11.2007 | Business

Read More: China Products, Intellectual Property, Food Safeguards, Chinese Recalls, U.S. China Relations, Drug Exports, Recalls, China Exports, Chinese Markets, Business News

The United States and China sparred over intellectual property protections and signed agreements on safeguarding the quality of food and drugs exports...

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Harvard Bookstore Claims Copyright On Prices

TechDirt | Posted 09.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Intellectual Property, Harvard Square, Harvard Bookstore, Business News

A few years ago, we had a story about a store that was kicking people out if they caught them comparison shopping via a mobile device. Obviously, a st...

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