INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

According to a report released by the U.S International Trade Comission, in 2009 China's continuous practice of piracy over American products cost the US approximately $48 billion.

Chinese piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. software and a wide range of other intellectual property cost American businesses an estimated $48 billion in 2009, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a report released on Wednesday.

UK’s reformed copyright law was published on Wednesday to answer the critics who said it was outdated and not keeping pace with the developing digital media.

Finnish mobile maker Nokia will introduce a new ‘Search’ feature on its mobile phones which will allow users to locate a particular place at just a click, a report in the Nokia official blog said.

Apple developers are being targeted from a company that claims it owns the rights to Apple's own payment tools, demanding that they license from them or face steep legal action.

Google decided to ratchet up excitement around the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which runs its tablet specific OS Android 3.0, by giving it for free to 5,000 attendees at the Google I/O conference and incurring about $499 per piece or $2.5 million in total.

On international trade, Vladimir Putin seems to be channeling the autocratic spirit of Catherine the Great. He wants Russia to modernize by joining the World Trade Organization -- but not too much.

Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who has created, inked and copyrighted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's iconic facial tattoo, has hauled Hollywood movie producer Warner Bros. to court for using the tattoo design without his consent in the upcoming comedy movie The Hangover: Part II.

Tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill, who has created, inked and copyrighted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's iconic facial tattoo, has hauled Hollywood film producer Warner Bros. to court for using the tattoo design without his consent in the upcoming comedy movie The Hangover: Part II.

A week after Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung over patent infringements, the South Korean company reciprocated in kind by filing law suits against Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany.

In a discussion the company's background and history in product innovations, Apple revealed that it sold 19 million iPads and 108 million iPhones.

The patent case between Microsoft and i4i argued yesterday before the Supreme Court could have ripple effects throughout the technology industry, as Microsoft is seeking to make it easier to prove patents aren't valid.

Samsung aims countersue Apple, which claimed the former company infringed on its iPhone patents.

Donald Trump's PR campaign has been built around questioning the validity of President Obama's birth certificate. But recently Trump has also broached on foreign policy, adding another angle to his PR campaign.

Samsung's Galaxy S 4G, Nexus S, Epic 4G, and Galaxy Tab are all cited in the suit.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, VIVUS, Orexigen Therapeutics, Star Scientific, and Optimer Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: OmniVision Technologies, DepoMed, TD AMERITRADE Holding, Logitech International, and Check Point Software Technologies.

Auriga USA LLC expects optical transport network to get increasingly crowded with players like PMC-Sierra Inc. (PMCS), Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (NETL), and potentially even FPGA (field-programmable gate array) vendor Altera Corp. (ALTR) vying to build application specific standard products (ASSP) to target this space.

Research In Motion has reached a deal with Intellectual Ventures that will give the BlackBerry maker access to more than 30,000 patents held by the intellectual property company.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Cephalon, Netlist, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, ClickSoftware Technologies, and Glu Mobile. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: China Information Technology, Golar LNG, Tibco Software, EDAP TMS, Vodafone Group, and Dell.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Cephalon, Netlist, Life Partners Holdings, AC Moore Arts & Crafts, and Gulf Resources. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: ValueVision Media, Tibco Software, H&E Equipment Services, iGATE, and Career Education.

A new study from McAfee says more cybercriminals are focused on corporate data, rather than individual people.