INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Ford Motor co engineer Xiang Dong Yu, 49, of Beijing, China, pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of theft of trade secrets.

Hardware partners beware, lock your warehouses or get sued. Oracle filed a suit against Multis on Nov. 9 at U.S. District Court for Northern District of California, for breach of contract under which they were liable for losses, if they failed to secure the partner's hardware.

U.K. law firm Norton Rose has expanded its presence in Canada and South Africa by agreeing to merge with Ogilvy Renault and Deneys Reitz respectively.

Motorola responds to Microsoft's patent lawsuit with one of their own.

The joint statement by participating companies at the G20 business summit in Seoul, Korea, as of Nov. 11, 2010

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's patent lawsuits often give rise to a complaint that there are more of them filed; but that isn't the case, according to data from LegalMetric. Rather, it has brought out discussions of how to fix the patent system.

The United States will make China a significant focus of its beefed-up efforts to fight global piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods ranging from CDs to manufactured products, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

The United States will make China a significant focus of its beefed-up efforts to fight global piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods ranging from CDs to manufactured products, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

The United States on Friday placed Russia on its list of countries with the worst records of preventing copyright theft for the 13th straight year, just days after the two nations agreed to intensify talks on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization.

A top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday he will raise industry concerns about China's indigenous innovation policies that threaten U.S. intellectual property rights when he visits Beijing next week. What we're trying to do with the Chinese is address the very serious concerns that have been raised, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis said in remarks to the Washington International Trade Association.

Brazil revealed on Monday a preliminary list of U.S. patents and intellectual property rights it could restrict unless both countries settle a long-standing dispute over U.S. cotton aid.

Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its Windows operating systems that include fonts designed by a local company, citing a violation of licensing agreements.

China and the United States traded blows over entertainment and software piracy Friday as the World Trade Organization formally ruled some Chinese practices were illegal but exonerated it of other complaints.

The head of the United Nations' intellectual property watchdog will step down next year, a year early, after documents bearing a false birth date brought pressure on him to resign, diplomats said on Thursday.

The Bush administration asked a world trade panel on Monday to force China to crack down on pirated goods, like U.S. movies and software.

The demand for patents is increasing, with applications for patents doubling in the last 20 years, the UN Intellectual Property Agency said on Monday.