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Law & Order: Intellectual Property Unit. We're gonna spider, parse, and scan like it's 1998, when Lycos acquired patents that could cost Google hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. To understand the patent mess that is gripping Silicon Valley right now, you need to travel across the country to a dark-paneled federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, just down the block from Bob's Gun Shop.

Your No. 1 job is to get to market and start making money. Here's why protecting your IP should stay off your to-do list.

A rare set of nearly 10,000-year-old human bones found in 1976 on a seaside bluff in La Jolla, Calif., may soon be removed from the custody of the University of California, San Diego, and turned over to the local Kumeyaay Nation tribes.

Do you think like an entrepreneur? Test yourself against these four simple points.

Privacy policy missteps have led plenty of start-ups into hot water. Here's how to avoid a legal (and public relations) nightmare

Let's do the weekly electric boogaloo through a menagerie of mechanical wonderthings. No humans required.

Legal matters may be daunting for the inexperienced, but that's no excuse for failing to make sure your venture is on the right side of the law, warns Rocket Lawyer founder Charley Moore.

Forget Jeremy Lin. The hottest question of the week was, "Are entrepreneurs feeling optimistic?" One good thing about being the soul of free enterprise, the best hope of innovation, and the lone source of new job creation in the U.S. economy: It makes people attentive to your moods

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Fair Labor Association Inspects Foxconn Factories . Apple has asked the Fair Labor Association to conduct a round of audits on several suppliers including Foxconn in China.

Last year, I received an email I will never forget: one of the world’s tobacco giants wanted me to consult for them. It’s not that I’m a stranger to requests from the tobacco industry. In fact, ever since I published Buyology in 2008, my email address appears to be on every tobacco executive’s Rolodex

If Google's going to keep tying all their services together, you may as well know how that will work, and how you can benefit from it. In just over a month, Google will change its privacy policies for all its products. Actually, Google is combining 70 different policies into a single set of rules, defining how the company treats all the personal information you provide

Sure, everything seems rosy now. But when you and your co-founder no longer see eye-to-eye, you'll be glad you did the paperwork early on

Turnaround specialist Glen Blickenstaff, in the last of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he offers a five step process to maintain momentum. There has been a lot of talk about CEO skill sets

He's got funds and a name like a digital era supervillain--and the vanity plates to match on his turbo Benzo. But can the hefty dual citizen of Germany and Finland move fast and furiously enough to evade the law? Kim Dotcom is a hard man to reach.

Before you look for venture capital, you'd better have a great venture lawyer, and be prepared to keep her in the loop. You're looking for a financing round to help give the company much-needed runway to develop its product—but you don't want a large chunk of the investment going to the lawyers