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  • Amy and Goliath

    A first-year law student brought a giant pharmaceutical to its knees. But will her victory for South Africa's AIDS sufferers deprive the world of new medicines?
    By Daryl Lindsey May 1, 2001

  • Patents are your friends

    Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers?
    By Damien Cave March 21, 2001

  • Fighting the plague

    The World Trade Organization steps into Africa's AIDS crisis, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to give some of their drugs away.
    By Ben Barber March 19, 2001

  • A lost Claus

    The U.S. government has made it official: Santa doesn't exist.
    By Gersh Kuntzman December 22, 2000

  • "Laser" by Nick Taylor

    The whiz-kid inventor of that $200 billion light beam spent 30 years fighting for the credit.
    By Bill Kowinski December 7, 2000

  • Who ya gonna call? Patent busters!

    BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.
    By Damien Cave October 23, 2000

  • Apple's "1-click" deal leaves a sour taste

    Since when does a computer maker need to license technology from a retailer like Amazon?
    By Damien Cave September 20, 2000

  • The science of invention

    Can a theory cooked up by a Soviet labor camp survivor solve today's thorniest engineering problems -- and make the world a better place?
    By Mark Wallace June 29, 2000

  • Stop the Web! We own those links!

    British Telecom claims it has patented hyperlinks, but one of the icons of Web history tells a different story.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 21, 2000

  • Lean, green gene-counting machine

    Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research.
    By Mark Compton April 24, 2000

  • "It's not broken but we're fixing it"

    The patent office reveals its new plan for examining "business method" patents, and, no, it says, it's not responding to industry pressure.
    By Damien Cave March 30, 2000

  • Patently Bezos

    The Amazon CEO's plan for patent reform is not all new, but it's not all bad, either.
    By Damien Cave March 16, 2000

  • Tim & Jeff's excellent patent show

    Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, after a discussion with publisher Tim O'Reilly, calls for patent reform -- while clinging to those his company has.
    By Damien Cave March 10, 2000

  • Who owns your DNA?

    Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims.
    By Arthur Allen March 7, 2000

  • Patently absurd?

    Amazon.com's patent on its affiliate program has roiled the Web, but such protections may actually promote innovation.
    By Damien Cave March 3, 2000

  • Amazon to world: We control how many times you must click!

    With a decision to patent the obvious, Amazon sparks the ire of a free-software advocate -- and a boycott of its site.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 21, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    If Cintra doesn't gamble, why was she in Vegas? Plus: Don't expect teens to be grown-ups; exposing Pat Buchanan.
    Letters to the Editor September 22, 1999

  • How can they patent that?

    The torrent of patents for e-commerce schemes raises new questions about an old-fashioned system.
    By Peter Wayner March 9, 1999
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