In an effort to expand its global operations, General Electric has announced plans to invest $2 billion to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and partner development in China.

As an effort to boost small business growth and innovation in the emerging London tech industry, the United Kingdom has announced the beginning of a large-scale review of intellectual property and copyright laws.

In response to recent reports on internet neutrality put forth by the Federal Communications Commission, the Internet Innovation Alliance - a business and nonprofit coalition advocating open broadband access - released a statement pleading the FCC and the U.S. government to adopt necessary measures to ensure the continuation of widespread unbiased internet service.

Google and the U.K. government provided an outline Thursday to turn London's East End into a hub of technological innovation meant to rival Silicon Valley in California. Google announced in a separate statement that the tech and software giant will open up a training and development center in the blossoming London neighborhood.

Spending on research and development among the world's top investors in innovation dropped in 2009 for the first time in 13 years, according to a new study by the consulting firm Booz & Company. Among the 1,000 global companies that consistently spend the most on innovation research and development, total investment dropped 3.5 percent to $503 billion in 2009.

CEOs from a number of leading American corporations jointly confirmed Sunday the need for the U.S. to invest in education and innovation in order for the country to remain a worldwide market competitor.

In what some critics are calling an attempt to further control the smartphone market, Apple announced last week that it is suing Motorola over alleged patent infringements regarding the tech giant's iPhone mobile software.

Patent authorities in the U.S. and Europe have partnered up to fuse their patent classification systems under the European standard, with the intent of simplifying the process by which patents are registered from different regions.

An ongoing dispute between Fox and Cablevision has heated up following allegations that Cablevision has been promoting illegal online viewing of copyrighted Fox television broadcasts to its subscribers.

SAP has been wading through difficult waters lately as the German software giant negotiates two concurrent intellectual property suits.