During last week's World Intellectual Property Office meeting, government, industry and academic leaders shared their insights on the ways copyright infrastructure will need to adapt in the digital age.

PBS Kids has announced plans to leverage the intellectual property of its children's television programming catalog and debut more than 40 related educational games.

After an outpouring of tributes spread across the world's media in the wake of Steve Jobs' untimely passing, one particularly popular fan creation has now been drawn into an intellectual property debate.

Chief Judge Randall Rader, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, recently unveiled a new Model Order proposing changes to discovery processes that could reduce the time to resolution within patent litigation.

The latest report from Boston University researchers highlighted the gravity of patent lawsuits, suggesting that inventors may have lost as much as $500 billion in legal battles over the past two decades.

The World Intellectual Property Organization recently released its latest summary of facts and figures synthesized from 90 IP offices around the world. The comprehensive report contains several significant revelations concerning patents, utility models and industrial designs. But the findings that have attracted the most attention relate to the growing importance of trademarking.

Intellectual property discussions take high priority in the pharmaceutical industry as decisions affect not only business interests, but the health and safety of consumers. In an effort to address these concerns, the Pharmaceutical Industry Labor Management Association recently vowed to redouble its efforts for fraud prevention and intellectual property protection.

An ongoing book digitization project between Google and dozens of American universities has hit a roadblock as copyright infringement concerns have come to light.

As Borders Books continues its slow but inevitable exit from the marketplace, company executives have decided to make one last shrewd move and put the group's intellectual property rights up for auction.

In a move reflective of the technology giant's recent efforts to incorporate intellectual property into its competitive strategy, Google has purchased more than 1,000 additional patents from IBM.