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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

This year will be make or break for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).  It is already years behind its original, ho...

As Techdirt has noted many times, the patent system is broken, and in various ways. One major problem is the way it inhibits innovation, ...

Back in June, Mike wrote about the important Myriad Genetics judgment from the Supreme Court, which said that naturally-occuring genetic...

Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...

A few months back, we wrote about the University of California's plan to lock up even more knowledge in the form of patents, in the...

We've noted before attempts to inflate the importance of copyright, patents and trademarks by including a bunch of other sectors that...

You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright lawyers against patent lawyers over the issue of whether ...

Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major...

As a recent DailyDirt noted, opinions on the safety of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) are sharply divided. But that heated arg...

A few months ago we wrote about the extraordinary -- and worrying -- case of Eli Lilly suing Canada after the latter had refused to gran...

Two of the key arguments during the Myriad Genetics trial were that gene patent monopolies stifle innovation by preventing others from ...

One technique in the world of pharma that has started appearing here on Techdirt is "evergreening" -- making small changes t...

At the end of last year, we wrote about an extraordinary attempt by the University of California (UC) to resuscitate the infamous "...

A couple of years back, Techdirt wrote about Google's laudable attempt to open source its VP8 video codec , based around technologies ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the growing threat of software patents in Europe (again). I was delighted to come across thi...

Unless we are farmers, we tend to take seeds for granted. But civilisation is built on seeds: it was the rise of large-scale agricultu...

A few weeks back, we wrote about the Indian Supreme Court's rejection of Novartis's attempt to use " evergreening " to...

The last time Techdirt wrote about " pay for delay " deals, whereby a big pharma company essentially buys off manufacturers o...

As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...