As CEO of Novartis, Europe's second largest drug company, the former competitive swimmer Joe Jimenez won't rest until he snags the top spot. The key: innovative products, expansion into new markets, and good old-fashioned team building. As a teenager, Joe Jimenez spent four hours a day, seven days a week in the pool training for swim meets
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The dust-up over Apple and Google's location tracking leaves out an important group of people: those who want to be tracked.
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Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation?
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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
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