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  • Stash of weapons in car found 'accidentally'

    BY KIM BOLAN VANCOUVER SUN An RCMP officer installing a secret tracking device in a Bacon brothers' vehicle said he was not looking for guns when he stumbled on a hidden compartment containing four loaded…

  • Inventing a Better Patent System

    By ROBERT C. POZEN GARY LOCKE, the secretary of commerce, has urged Congress to overhaul the nation's patent law by the end of the year. Although a bill has been circulating since 2005, a fierce…

  • Microsoft, ex-worker settle claims

    By Elinor Mills Microsoft sued a former employee earlier this year for allegedly stealing trade secrets that were later used in a patent lawsuit against Microsoft partners, in which Microsoft later intervened as a party-defendant.…

  • Zeropoint Risk Research And Processunity Annouce New Risk Analysis Tool

    By: Susan Shea Enterprise Threat Assessments Reduce Intellectual Property Theft, Identity Theft and Organizational Risk First detailed in the book, "THREAT! Managing Risk in a Hostile World," by ZeroPoint Risk Research president MacDonnell Ulsch, the…

  • Cracking the code

    By Drew C. Wilson Havelock News A self-described computer geek, Richard Rogers believes he has cracked a code that has eluded scholars and researchers for more than 500 years. Mystery has always surrounded the Voynich…

  • Cost to build Plant Vogtle reactors falls

    By Walter C. Jones Morris News Service The official price tag for Georgia Power's share of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle is $1.5 billion lower than when the company requested permission to build them,…

  • SMIC chief resigns after dispute settlement on trade secrets

    Source: Global Times Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), a Shanghai-based contract chipmaker, announced Tuesday that Richard Chang resigned as the chief executive after the settlement of a long-running patent litigation. Chang will be replaced by David…

  • Ex-Home Depot manager faces theft charges in Ga.

    The Associated Press ATLANTA -- A former Home Depot Inc. manager is facing federal charges that he shared the Atlanta-based retail giant's trade secrets with a potential vendor. Prosecutors say in court filings that Martinez…

  • RedTube Claims WEG Leaked Trade Secrets, Cybersquats

    By Rhett Pardon XBIZ.com Operators of RedTube.com filed a lawsuit against WEG, claiming the company scooped up a number of RedTube domain names with the intention to divert and acquire its traffic and profits. The…

  • The high cost of defaulting

    Two individuals, Charles Joyce and James Voigt, sued PepsiCo and two Pepsi distributors in a Wisconsin state court, claiming that nearly 20 years earlier, they had spoken confidentially with the distributors about the idea of…