It’s no secret that Americans don’t know much about politics: according to one source, less than half of those tested on basic U.S. politics could name the three branches of [...]

  The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources was adopted under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2010. Its purpose is to ensure equitable benefit sharing in [...]

How can you convince people that you are right? By presenting evidence. That may be one reason why Intellectual Ventures, the notorious tech patent giant, just released a study on [...]

  This past Monday the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of taking up debate and amendment on the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would force online retailers to collect [...]

A new Apple patent, approved today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, patents technology that displays physical input devices (like a trackpad) onscreen. While that may sound like an [...]

As this article posts we are midway through the latest meeting of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) delegates who are trying to protect “traditional knowledge” as it pertains to intellectual [...]

It was supposed to be a happy event: the Boston Marathon, a historic race that draws thousands of runners to Massachusetts each year. But what should have been a triumphant [...]

The White House budget proposal nearly always sees the light of day in February of each year, but this year the release came on April 10. The late release came [...]

Most ladies are not eager to disclose their ages; some even take the liberty of lying about it. Most, though, do not go as far as suing those who let [...]

Not two weeks ago some of today’s tech big boys asked the FTC to take action against patent trolls. Blackberry, Earthlink, Google and Red Hat made this demand in the [...]