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Overselling your product's abilities can cost way more than just your reputation. Here are six cautionary tales you need to know. Believe it or not, a Brooklyn man filed a class-action lawsuit this week against tech giant Apple saying its ads oversold Siri, the talking assistant, on the iPhone 4S

You talk about your company all the time, to investors, to clients. What if someone rips off your great ideas

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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Report Record iPhone 4S Sales

The biotechnology industry has had its share of woes, but so far 'patent trolls' have not numbered among them. These companies, which profit by legally enforcing patents they own rather than developing products, may benefit from a 31 August ruling at a US federal court of appeal in Washington DC.

The world's largest social gaming company is under fire for allegedly infringing on patents found in nearly every one of its games. As the world's largest social gaming company preps for its $1 billion IPO, Zynga will reportedly have to deal with a new lawsuit

Foursquare partners with AmEx, an 'Anonymous' group of hackers, the Winklevosses back down, social innovation, and more.

David Kravets, a writer for Wired's Threat Level blog, reports on the ruling handed down by a federal judge that, simply put, allowed for the reposting of an entire article without permission. To show how asinine that is, we've reposted Wired's entire article. You should actually go to Wired and read it.

Last year, the Corn Refiners Association decided that the term "high fructose corn syrup" just didn't have same catchy ring to it as "sugar." The solution: re-brand HFCS as "corn sugar" and launch a marketing blitz to educate the public about the wonders of this freshly named, all-natural product. Now sugar farmers are fighting back to reclaim their good name--even though it has recently been tarnished .