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Software tax dispute could go the Supreme Court

The state has been...

UW professors get grants to engage technology for course delivery

Cramer, professor Hussain Bahia, program assistant Carole Kraak and staff from Engineering M...

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear Menasha software case

The will decide that question after agreeing last week to hear the case, and there is an estimated $350 millio...

Supreme Court limits foreign reach of U.S. patents

the Supreme Court delivered another blow by limiting their reach abroad and...

High court sends message on patent obviousness

is the requirement that the claimed invention is not obvious under 35 U.S.C. 103. Similarly, obviousness is a typical defense raised in patent infringement cases. Yet, overcoming obviousness objections, both in the PTO and in...

Supreme Court ruling seen as blow to WARF stem cell patents

The answer is yes, according to the California consumer watchdog organization that is challenging the patents, but that's not necessarily a consensus opinion. The nation's high cou...

Wisconsin court halts Abbott's sale of genotyping products

, preventing the pharmaceutical company from further sales or use of products or components that infringe on a genotyping patent held by <a href="http://www.innogenetics.com...

Wisconsin court affirms damages in Innogenetics, Abbott patent case

Madison, Wis. - The The Madison-based court affirmed the damage award to , a biopharmaceutical company based in Gent, Belg...

With patents, Wisconsin court gaining reputation as a "rocket docket"

The most recent example occurred last month. After a relatively speedy trial that began in September of 2005, a jury in<a href="htt...

Supreme Court decision in eBay case could affect value of patents

On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Supreme Court in eBay Inc. v. Mercexchange LLC, held that whether a patent owner who proves infringement should be granted an injunction must be determined under the standard four-factor test. Those factors are (1) irreparable injury; (2) inadequacy of remedies at law; (3) balancing of hardships; and (4) the public interest. The Court re...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

The approval came during a hearing in which the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted approval o...

Winner of Burrill competition courted by North Carolina investors

Din and Newport stand in front of the display promoting their winning business pla...

Local software company takes Google to court over a patent

This time Hyperphrase Technologies has filed suit against , the Internet search engine company, for allegedly using technology that provides viewers of a Web page with links to other sites...

CIOs could keep companies out of hot water in court

Morgan Stanley's $1.4 billion example in 2005 of how not to produce documents...

State wants to encourage industrial biotechnology

Most of the biotech companies you'll hear about are developing new drugs, genetic tests or similar life-science advances. But some are merging biotech with Wisconsin's old signature industries: agriculture and forest products. "Neither of those is exactly rolling in cash right now. They're tough industries," said Pat Meier, director of Wisconsin's Cons...

FDA programs encourage and expedite drug development and approval

Nearly half of all products produced by biotech companies are for orphan diseases. Two of the large...

Court bars patent protection for certain gene fragments

At issue was whether certain gene fragment sequences were useful. Most notably whether the gene fragmen...

Business liability law complaints grow with state Supreme Court decisions

- During a week in which President Bush announced his choice for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, it would have been easy to overlook the storm building around the next election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. If you're a business owner worried about the next lawsuit, however, you should pay as much attention to recent decisions by W...

Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against Microsoft

The suit, led by Milwaukee resident Gene Olstad, seeks a settlement fund for all Wisconsin consumers for money lost through monopolistic practices. Th...

Green County courts to hold hearings via video conferencing

A 2003 study by the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance found the county could save $...

New WARF investment director plans to keep steady course

WARF licenses the patents generated by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to companies in Madison and elsewhere, and invests part of its...

Tech Digest: OnCourse, Menasha, Fiserv, Rockwell

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Biotech IPOs bring in encouraging sums

Theres a thread drawn to the early years of rock n roll where it was also not about making money but about expressing what was going on in society (without getting jailed for it). Toda...

Streaming video could make courtrooms into Internet conference calls

MADISON, Wis. Sonic Foundry, a provider of rich-media systems and software, is deploying its Mediasite technology to record courtroom proceedings, the company has announced. Sonic Foundry and media services provider new Vi...

University alliance gets $2.5 million to encourage minorities in science and technology

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead 21 state colleges in trying to encourage more underrepresented minorities to get degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, the university has announced. The alliance includes the UW System's 12 four-year universities and two-year colleges from around the state. The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Partnerships, a program of th...

Above par: Playing 18 holes on Wisconsin's high-tech course

But Wisconsin boasts another course,...

Entrepreneurs get crash course for building a successful company

The second annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference got off to a dynamic start on Tuesday morning at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, treating at least a hundred entrepreneurs and industry representatives to a crash course in making a new company a success. The entrepreneurial boot camp was designed serve both veteran and novice business owners, by providing a loose outline for success from a panel...

University of Wisconsin enriches course web sites with streaming media

When putting class notes and PowerPoint slides online is not enough, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin can use streaming video and audio to liven up their course Web pages thanks to a program funded jointly by the university and an AT&T grant. The services web site, ,...

Courage and time

, including Lucent Technologies,...