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Biopiracy and bird flu

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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?

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

Stem cell patents: Rejected!

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

The Patent and Trademark Office shakes up the biotech intellectual property status quo.

Pirates of the South China Seas

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Since when does the right to manufacture cheap compact discs constitute a national emergency?

Why Thailand isn't smiling at Big Pharma

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Free trade and AIDS in a post-coup, post-midterm election world.

Drug safety data: mine, all mine!

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

India gets a lecture on how it's not alright to share

The pirate stage of capitalism

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

How India became a player in the global pharmaceutical industry.

Tripping over the TRIPs agreement

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

The WTO's intellectual property status quo: Bad for the developing world ... and the U.S.?

There's a new IP sheriff in town

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Another day, another Washington think tank pushing Big Pharma propaganda.

Biting the hand that sues you

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

A Chinese company boldly goes where none has gone before. To file suit in the U.S.

China's great wall of patents

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Move over Canada, China just took your place in the patent line.

Bio-piracy? No such thing

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Traditional knowledge doesn't deserve I.P. protection, but cutting-edge research does. Huh?

A twisted tale of Chinese porcelain

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Reverse engineering, industrial espionage: Been there, done that, got the T-shirt in the 17th century

Big Pharma's funny numbers

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

How much does it cost to score a new drug?

We need a new drug (system)

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Brazil vs. the Drug Lords; a showdown at the IP corral

Putting in a good word for the über-lobbyist

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

Thanks, Jack Abramoff, for all your hard work

Attack of the MP3 patent hoarders

Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

Katharine Mieszkowski — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

Rubber match

By Andrew Leonard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

By Jason Schultz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

By Greg Barrett — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

By Farhad Manjoo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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

By Damien Cave — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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?

By Anthony York — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:00 PDT

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