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AskMen.com Jim Bauer	How To: Register A Trademark If you're in business (even if it's a small, part-time operation) or you have an idea for a product, then chances are that at least part of what makes your operation unique can be protected under trademark law.
AskMen.com Aaron Broverman	How To: Protect An Idea While the majority of ideas have already been thought of, if yours is unique, here are some tips to protect them and reap the benefits.
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike	Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	Intellectual Property Help Findlaw.com has launched the Intellectual Property Center. The new site presents a substantial amount of free resources, including how to obtain, enforce, and protect patents and trademark rights.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it.
Linux Journal May 1, 2002 Lawrence Rosen	The Role of Standards in Open Source And, on how new standards are often compatible with free and open-source licensing...
CIO August 1, 2003 Lawrence Rosen	Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond	Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.
Entrepreneur December 2007 Nichole L. Torres	Getting Intellectual An idea can be your most valuable asset, but first you need to own it.
Reason December 2007 Brian Doherty	Magic Trade Tricks For years the magic industry has managed to protect intellectual property without any recourse to patent, copyright, or trade secret law, according to a Yale Law School study.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2003 John Teresko	Intellectual Property, It's Worth Keeping An Eye On Making sure intellectual property is protected can reap benefits and prevent hassles.
Entrepreneur January 2004 David Worrell	License to Profit Could licensing your intellectual property provide the extra capital you've been looking for?
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike	You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens	New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	GPL Awaits Test in SCO Group/IBM Dispute Is the GNU General Public License unconstitutional?
InternetNews October 30, 2007 David Needle	Yahoo: 'IP Rules!' Yahoo's head intellectual property lawyer explains why the Internet is keeping a lot of legal staffs busier than ever.
Linux Journal July 2001 Lawrence Rosen	Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?...
PC Magazine April 6, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Software Patents: Microsoft's Fatal Error Microsoft's has a lot to worry about as the European Union looks unfavorably on its hidden source code and patent practices.
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Patent in Review The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a request by the Public Patent Foundation to review one of Microsoft's many patents, the organization said today.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S.
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell	Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Dave Mock	The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes.
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Paul Allen	Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility.
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament.
InternetNews November 10, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Expands Indemnification Microsoft has expanded the scope of its intellectual property protection policy to cover customers using current and earlier versions of its software.
Salon.com July 16, 2001 Alan Docherty	Why can't Johnny respect copyrights? In Britain, elementary-school classrooms prepare to preach reverence for intellectual property -- and to denounce the evils of file-sharing...
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn	Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies.
T.H.E. Journal October 2003	Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom
InternetNews May 18, 2010	Microsoft Settles Patent Dispute With VirnetX Microsoft agrees to shell out $200 million for a one-time fee, and commit to additional licensing arrangements for two patents concerning VPN technology.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner	Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.
Searcher September 2012 Peter B. Hirtle	Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit.
InternetNews January 28, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft: King of The Patent Hill Microsoft emerges as top tech patent holder with more than 15,000 patents pending.
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Reason August 2002 Charles Paul Freund	DNA Dough-Re-Mi A pretty girl may be like a melody, but the music of her DNA could have biotech companies whistling all the way to the bank. An executive at Maxygen, a California biotech firm, has suggested that if DNA sequences were converted to digital music they could be copyrighted as works of art.
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike	Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.
InternetNews October 21, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	EU Patent Fight Comes to the Fore An effort to stop software patents in the European Union got a boost this week with the launch of NoSoftwarePatents.com. Red Hat and MySQL AB are among the high-profile open source companies backing the effort.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Lewis Schiff	Watch Out Some common traps in determining intellectual property rights.
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier	Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.
Information Today June 14, 2010 George H. Pike	U.S. Patent Office and Google to Provide Free Bulk Patent and Trademark Data On June 2, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced an agreement to make more than 10 terabytes of bulk electronic patent and trademark data available through Google.
Salon.com April 15, 2002 Damien Cave	In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong...
BusinessWeek January 13, 2010 Steve LeVine	IBM May Not Be the Patent King After All IBM wins more U.S. patents than any other company, but Microsoft's are worth much more money, says a new study.
The Motley Fool September 12, 2007 Dave Mock	When $612 Million Isn't Enough Wireless email patent holder NTP settles with Research In Motion for $612 million. Now it's going after wireless carriers. Investors should expect a long and protracted fight.
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