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By Douglas Kysar of Nature magazine The US Supreme Court this week gave its opinion on American Electric Power v. [More]

The small Canadian firm i4i has its patent infringement charge upheld in a unanimous verdict. What does this mean for the future of innovation? The Supreme Court issued a ruling against Microsoft Thursday, upholding a decision from a lower court

The Winklevoss brothers are at it again.

There's pro-business and then there's pro-oligarchy. Our current Supreme Court, I believe, has crossed that line.

Charging sales tax on Internet purchases can be a messy, nebulous issue. Case in point: You can buy the latest Stieg Larsson novel on Amazon.com without paying any tax. But order the same book from Barnes & Noble’s website, and you'll still pay the 9.5 percent tax you would have paid at a store location in San Francisco, because any company with brick-and-mortar operations in California must collect sales tax online.

The Supreme Court this week sided with employees, ruling that workers can still sue if they suffer retaliation after making an oral, rather than written, complaint. The ruling makes it even more important for companies to investigate all complaints of workplace discrimination or harassment, even if they seem informal

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Leland Stanford Junior Universotu v. Roche, a case that will clarify a 1980 law that governs the ownership of patents held by universities that rely on federal research funds. The case refers back to 1988, when Mark Holodniy, then a Stanford-employed researcher, developed technology that would ultimately lead to one of the first AIDS tests