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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.

Prospective business buyers wont simply take you on your word.

Even a 20-something billionaire could use a little help. He just got it from Microsoft--via a huge heap of AOL patents.

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.

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Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google Q4 Earnings Not Google-y Enough . There were several handsome numbers in

Call your representatives now: The latest proposal to crack down on Internet piracy still offers Big Business an easy way to clamp down on start-ups. Entrepreneurs have reason to beware the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Got an idea involving loyalty or rewards, mobile and online payment management, or security and fraud detection? AmEx may want to talk to you

Got an idea involving loyalty or rewards, mobile and online payment management, or security and fraud detection? AmEx may want to talk to you. American Express is getting into the venture capital business – and it's not starting small

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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple Posts Quarterly Revenue of $28.27 Billion . Riding record Mac and iPad sales, Apple reported $6.62 billion of net quarterly profit, up from $4.31 billion the same quarter last year.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys A Thousand IBM Patents .

In Part 1 of my interview, Sunni Brown, business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers , described graphic recording and the definition of Gamestorming. Below, Sunni discusses how to create innovative environments that produce amazing ideas

It shouldn't be called "mergers and acquisitions." It's more like "mergers and acquisitions… and rumors… and speculation." Ever since last week's announcement that Hewlett Packard plans to buy the software data mining company Autonomy rumors and speculation has been, uh, let's just say, thick. Here are some of my favorites: 1