Patents

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Amy and Goliath 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?
Patents are your friends Patents are your friends
Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers?
Fighting the plague 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.
A lost Claus A lost Claus
The U.S. government has made it official: Santa doesn't exist.
"Laser" by Nick Taylor
The whiz-kid inventor of that $200 billion light beam spent 30 years fighting for the credit.
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! Who ya gonna call? Patent busters!
BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.
Apple's "1-click" deal leaves a sour taste
Since when does a computer maker need to license technology from a retailer like Amazon?
The science of invention 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?
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.
Lean, green gene-counting machine
Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research.
"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.
Patently Bezos
The Amazon CEO's plan for patent reform is not all new, but it's not all bad, either.
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.
Who owns your DNA?
Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims.
Patently absurd?
Amazon.com's patent on its affiliate program has roiled the Web, but such protections may actually promote innovation.
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.
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.
How can they patent that?
The torrent of patents for e-commerce schemes raises new questions about an old-fashioned system.
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