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• The Telephone Gambit: Did Bell Steal His Legendary Invention? (Part Two)

  Editor’s note: This marks the second and final installment of a unique profile—a detective story, really—of a Boston-area entrepreneur and his famous invention. The story was excerpted from Xconomy contributing writer... Read more »

• The Telephone Gambit: Did Bell Steal His Legendary Invention?

  Editor’s note: Just about everyone knows the story of Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone—and those famous words uttered in the inventor’s Boston workshop to his assistant,... Read more »

• Class-Action Lawsuit Unfolding in Boston Against Webloyalty, Fandango, Priceline, and Various Web Retailers Alleges Widespread “Coupon Click Fraud”

  Updated and corrected, December 21, 2007. For details on the revisions, click here.

  It is every online shopper’s nightmare (that is, if you awake to know it has even happened).... Read more »

• Myomo: FDA Approval, Press Recognition, New CEO—Now, Customers?

  Myomo, the privately held Boston-based startup, has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. The company won FDA approval in July for its first product: the “e100 NeuroRobotic... Read more »

• Massachusetts Scores High in the Patent Sweepstakes (and Other Fun Insights From New Patent Office Stats)

  Among the many interesting tables published in the U.S. Patent Office’s annual performance report issued on Thursday are a state-by-state breakdown of patents issued in 2007, as well as listings of... Read more »

• Annual Patent Report Shows Growing Backlog in Key Technology Areas

  The big news in the annual report from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office out today: it takes longer than ever to get a patent these days, and the backlog in... Read more »

• Glaxo Wins Round One in Lawsuit Against the U.S. Patent Office—Early Victory for Biotech and Pharma

  Talk about the eleventh hour. At the last possible moment, a federal district court in Alexandria, VA, handed down a ruling yesterday evening that—at least for now—blocks new U.S. Patent Office... Read more »

• Think “Local”—New MIT Media Center To Build Tools to Foster Civic Engagement

  You don’t have to look far to find signs that participation in local communities is on the decline in the United States. In one obvious example, overall voter turnout in local... Read more »

• Finding That Nuclear Needle in a Vast Cargo Haystack

  The next time you are waiting for your luggage at the airport baggage carousel and marveling at the security challenge posed by those hundreds of bags, consider this: somewhere between 9... Read more »

• Tiny Massachusetts Agency Seeks to Leverage State’s $5.5 Billion in Federal Research Funds—Can it Succeed?

  With its bevy of top-flight universities and hospitals, Massachusetts boasts a fire-hydrant-like flow of some $5.5 billion in federal research dollars pumping into the state annually. How can the state best... Read more »

• Two Patent-Related Scourges Addressed

  After years of relative neglect, the courts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and even Congress have taken important steps over the past several months to correct some of the patent... Read more »

• Can Harvard Match MIT at Tech Transfer?

  Change is afoot at Harvard University’s technology transfer operation. As Harvard spokesperson B.D. Colen puts it: “There’s no question that there is a new emphasis here on getting out into the... Read more »

• High-Court “Common Sense” Decision Portends Big Changes for High-Tech Patenting; Many Existing Patents at Risk

  High-tech patent holders take note: legal experts are calling the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in KSR v. Teleflex the most important patent ruling in decades, throwing into question the validity... Read more »