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Intellectual property laws have fallen short of providing legal protection on indigenous knowledge. Now India is setting up a database to establish prior art on traditional knowledge.

On 21 December 2006 the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), which manages the intellectual property of Washington State’s public universities, filed a lawsuit alleging infringement of four patents concerning Bluetooth technology.

The company may top the US's patents league, but IBM still thinks the system is broken.

Check out the research grants to get some insights into what it will take to commercialise polymer electronics.

One of Europe's leading life sciences investors is pulling out to focus on larger, lower-risk private equity buyouts of profitable mid-size biotechs.

New research suggests that the majority of start-ups offer products or services that are not new to the market.

Everybody wants more energy research – so why isn’t it coming fast enough?

UK tax advice in plain English

Matching consumer demand with R&D may seem like an obvious starting point for innovation. But it has proven a transient goal for many countries and companies.

Europe’s small biotechs have leapt to take advantage of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) office for SMEs, according to a review of its first year in operation.

Two of Europe’s gene therapy pioneers have reported significant progress in the last week, bringing commercial gene therapy products yet closer to reality.