Samsung is a copycat, the jury ruled, after just three days of deliberation, awarding Apple over a billion dollars in damages. For the inventor of the iPhone, it was a convincing victory. In their eyes, it took Samsung just three months to steal some…
We all know how passionate politicians can get about intellectual property enforcement once they've been handed a couple nice checks from the entertainment industry. But Texas representative Lamar Smith, despite being the mastermind behind the wrecki…
I made a mixtape this weekend, 90 minutes of music consisting of nothing that I "owned," recorded onto a cassette tape, earphone jack to mic jack. It's a gift, and I think it sounds pretty good. It goes from Burning Star Core to Tony Conrad to the Ra…
If there's a single issue aside from "net neutrality":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/14/cmd-ctrl-motherboard-meets-tim-wu-on-net-neutrality-information-empires-and-freedom that will profoundly affect the future of innovation, it's software patents. As
