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The world's largest oil sands producers signed an agreement yesterday to waive their intellectual property and patent rights in order to reduce the industry's impact on greenhouse gases, agriculture and waterways. [More]

What a difference a week makes. On Tuesday, January 31, Susan G. Komen For The Cure announced that it would not renew its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer exams , claiming that it doesn't permit funding to organizations under investigation by Congress.

As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory.

So, you've landed a huge enterprise client. Here's how to close the deal without getting stuck in a legal maelstrom over the contract. It's bound to happen.

What every business owner needs to know about protecting valuable intellectual property. I am often asked do I need a trademark for my slogan? Can I patent my idea

By knowing their rights, two small companies made Apple and RIM back down over trademark conflicts. You could do the same. When you think of Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM), it’s probably as mismatched competitors.

Google's Internet-based science fair brought in awe-inspiring teenage scientific contributions from 91 countries around the world--with three girls taking home the gold in all age groups.

Turntable.fm heats up, American unemployment rates, Foursquare rolls out new daily deals, and more. A music start-up generates massive feedback. The New York Times takes a look at Turntable.fm, a hot start-up that's used the power of exclusivity to attract hordes of D.J.-ing users

If you are starting up a company and find yourself pitching everything that walks upright these days, please watch this video called "Hardly Working, Start-up Guys." Clearly the folks at CollegeHumor are embellishing for the sake of parody, but boy do they offer a reality check. So how about you? Are you a start-up jerk

When your company needs to use a process, concept, toolor really anything that's protected by a patent, copyright, or trademarkhere's how to license it, and avoid legal trouble. The world of intellectual property has suffered a shake up in the Internet age

True, body-enveloping 3-D virtual environments come to everyone's living room with Nintendo's new Wii U controller. Living room entertainment just got one step closer to having a true three-dimensional virtual environment: Nintendo's new Wii U tablet remote control scans a virtual world in true 360 degrees as the user moves it in orbit around his or her body. The brand new technology opens exciting possibilities for not just gaming, but for the exploding tablet market.

The Ohio State University Taught by: Michael Camp The inventor-entrepreneur is a romantic figure. But plenty of companies thrive by commercializing the inventions of others. Technology Venturing builds businesses around sophisticated technologies that have not yet found commercial uses

Microsoft today sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Invantec over patent infringement stemming from their use of Android-based e-reader and tablet devices. In the suit, Microsoft alleges Barnes & Noble and its device manufacturers, Foxconn and Invantec, have violated patents related to functionality embedded in the Android OS devices. “The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing, in a statement

HarperCollins wants ebooks--and their licenses--to expire over time. Many lenders aren't happy