Patents

  • Biopiracy and bird flu

    A U.S. government patent application raises a knotty question: Should a country own property rights to the diseases that afflict its citizens?
  • Who owns that offshore sucking sound?

    Accenture gets a patent for a "rapid transfer of knowledge" technique. Don't expect rich country workers to applaud
  • Monsanto takes a punch to the gut

    Score another big victory for the Public Patent Foundation: Monsanto's grip on crucial genetic modification patents is weakening.
  • Stem cell patents: Rejected!

    The Patent and Trademark Office shakes up the biotech intellectual property status quo.
  • Pirates of the South China Seas

    Since when does the right to manufacture cheap compact discs constitute a national emergency?
  • Why Thailand isn't smiling at Big Pharma

    Free trade and AIDS in a post-coup, post-midterm election world.
  • Drug safety data: mine, all mine!

    India gets a lecture on how it's not alright to share
  • The pirate stage of capitalism

    How India became a player in the global pharmaceutical industry.
  • Tripping over the TRIPs agreement

    The WTO's intellectual property status quo: Bad for the developing world ... and the U.S.?
  • There's a new IP sheriff in town

    Another day, another Washington think tank pushing Big Pharma propaganda.
  • Biting the hand that sues you

    A Chinese company boldly goes where none has gone before. To file suit in the U.S.
  • China's great wall of patents

    Move over Canada, China just took your place in the patent line.
  • Bio-piracy? No such thing

    Traditional knowledge doesn't deserve I.P. protection, but cutting-edge research does. Huh?
  • A twisted tale of Chinese porcelain

    Reverse engineering, industrial espionage: Been there, done that, got the T-shirt in the 17th century
  • Big Pharma's funny numbers

    How much does it cost to score a new drug?
  • We need a new drug (system)

    Brazil vs. the Drug Lords; a showdown at the IP corral
  • Putting in a good word for the über-lobbyist

    Thanks, Jack Abramoff, for all your hard work
  • Attack of the MP3 patent hoarders

    A Texas chip design company broadcasts a warning to the world: Pay us now, or pay us later.
  • Vroom-vroom: Victory for Dykes on Bikes

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark office decides the word "dyke" isn't offensive after all.
  • Rubber match

    What do you get when you design a condom that men want to use? Sued. Inside the twisted patent battle over prophylactics.
  • When dot-com patents go bad

    The auction of Commerce One's intellectual property demonstrates that patents are worth more today as weapons than anything else. That's wrong.
  • Ignoring the big C

    Cancer will kill more than half a million Americans this year. Scientists are desperate to find cures, but weak federal funding and high research costs driven by private-company greed are crippling their efforts.
  • Microsoft's media monopoly

    Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts.
  • Losing the war on patents

    Attempts to fix the intellectual property system from below are faltering. Is it time to bring in the feds?
  • Is it time to bust the Cipro patent?

    Activist Jamie Love accuses the Bush administration of putting corporate profits above public safety.
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