Lilly 2013 profit forecast tops expectations
Eli Lilly and Co. unveiled a better-than-expected 2013 earnings forecast Friday, in part because the pharmaceutical company expects growth from ...

Indian court to rule on generic drug industry
From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging ...

6 takeaways from Google's antitrust settlement
Google Inc. has settled an U.S. antitrust probe that largely leaves its search practices alone. In a major win for Google, the Federal Trade ...

China court orders Apple to pay in rights dispute
A Chinese court has ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to eight Chinese writers and two companies who say unlicensed copies of ...
Nokia, RIM settle old disputes in new patent pact
Nokia Corp. and Canadian smartphone rival Research In Motion have agreed on a new patent licensing pact which will end all existing litigation between ...
Google to sell part of Motorola for $2.35 billion
Google is selling Motorola Mobility's TV set-top business for $2.35 billion, lightening the load that the Internet search leader took on earlier this ...

Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...

Kodak sells digital imaging patents for $525M
Eastman Kodak is selling its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, money the struggling photo pioneer says will help it emerge from ...
Smartphone makers post wins on separate continents
Apple and Samsung, the world's top two smartphone makers, each scored a significant victory on different continents that will allow both to keep ...
Google, Belgian papers reach accord on copyright
Google says it has reached an agreement over copyright issues with a group of French-language Belgian newspapers, ending a six-year dispute. In a ...
EU approves common patent rules
The European Union approved a new common patent system on Tuesday designed to cut red tape and streamline patent procedures across ...
China overtakes US in number of patent filings
GENEVA — The U.N. says the Chinese filed the most patent applications in the world last year, overtaking the U.S. for the first time. The U.N.'s World ...
Report: Kodak gets patent bid from Apple, Google
Apple and Google, bitter rivals in smartphone technology, have joined up to make a combined bid for a bundle of patents offered by photography pioneer ...
Drug makers' settlements get high court review
The Supreme Court will take a close look at payments from brand-name drug makers to manufacturers of generic equivalents to keep the no-name products ...
Judge aims to resolve Apple-Samsung legal dispute
Urging the world's largest smartphone makers to settle their differences, a federal judge said she will issue rulings aimed at resolving a ...
Judge may trim Apple's $1 billion patent verdict
A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to trim millions from a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics this summer as ...
Tech titans renew legal battle over smartphones
The epic $1 billion patent fight between the world's top two smartphone makers resumes Thursday in a federal courtroom when Apple Inc. and Samsung ...
NY appeals court skeptical about startup's live TV
A startup company trying to defend the legality of how it sends live TV programming to laptop computers, iPhones and other mobile devices encountered ...
Court to decide if human genes can be patented
The Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether companies can patent human genes, a decision that could reshape medical research in the ...
Nokia sues RIM for breach of contract
Nokia Corp. said Wednesday that it is suing Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, for breach of contract in Britain, the United States and ...
US suspends embassy account on Vietnam website
The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi has deactivated its account on a popular Vietnamese website that's full of suspected pirated music and Hollywood movies, the ...