For online music streaming service Pandora, the breadth of its song catalog is a key determinant of the value it represents to customers. Following a recent district court judgment, the company should now be assured full access to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) catalog through 2015.

Honeywell's proposed acquisition of mobile manufacturing hardware leader Intermec had raised the interest of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's antitrust enforcement teams. However, federal officials have now come up with a creative patent licensing solution they believe should uphold fair market competition.

Motorola's management of patents deemed essential to the mobile device industry has invited investigation from authorities in the U.S. and abroad in recent years. This week, a district court ruling officially attached a monetary value to the company's patent licensing improprieties.

The Bayh-Dole Act passed in 1980 has been cited in many of the academic technology transfer success stories which emerged over the three decades that followed. University of Michigan professor and medical historian Howard Markel believes it is time for a change, however, suggesting that the legislation is poorly prepared to align with the realities of today's fast-moving biotechnology sector.

Leaders of copyright-intensive industries such as media and software production have recently expressed grave concerns that the ongoing proliferation of digital piracy poses an existential threat to their businesses. A recent survey of CEO compensation conducted by International IP in the Public Interest analysts paints a much different picture, however.

The Association of University Technology Managers is currently conducting its second annual assessment of the economic dividends derived from academic technology transfer. Researchers recently offered an advance look at some of the telling statistics ahead of the full report's scheduled release at the end of the year.

When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the patentability of naturally occurring DNA samples earlier this summer, several pundits flagged the decision as a crucial point of inflection for the biomedical research sector. While the full effects of the ruling remain to be seen, it appears that those expecting biological patents to play a diminished role in the intellectual property system may have been a bit shortsighted in their analysis.

Fullscreen is one of YouTube's top partner networks, aggregating more than 15,000 separate channels to attract nearly 35,000 unique viewers in June alone. However, the National Music Publishers' Association recently asserted that the online innovator may be flouting accepted royalty management best practices.

This past weekend, the White House overturned a U.S. International Trade Commission decision for the first time since 1987. The veto invalidates the limited sales ban imposed on Apple mobile devices earlier this summer amid a long-running patent infringement dispute with Samsung.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court's ruling on the legality of Dish Network's automatic ad-skipping device. This likely bolstered the company's stance in ongoing copyright infringement litigation with the FOX broadcasting network. The ruling might not bring proceedings between the two sides to a close, but the precedent set could already be enough to inspire media innovators to develop their own methods of bypassing traditional advertising embedded in content delivery protocols.