White House officials have unveiled a new education initiative intended to boost awareness of intellectual property theft and its effects on the nation as a whole.

Quality over quantity has long been viewed as a cliche in business circles, but innovative firms across the United States have recently been applying the principle to their patent portfolios and speeding by competitors as a result.

As regulators and industry analysts around the world attempt to pinpoint potential implications of the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung, European antitrust regulators remain concerned that the legal victors may use their intellectual property rights to limit innovation and stifle competition.

The latest report from the World Intellectual Property Organization points to the changing ways innovative firms around the world are approaching issues of IP rights ownership.

In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Microsoft's deputy general counsel Horacio Gutierrez asserted that, although U.S. patent laws could be improved, the system is far from broken.

The Consumer Electronics Association recently assembled a group of 15 venture capitalists specializing in digital innovation to express their concerns over unintended consequences of the PROTECT IP Act.

Innovators in the biomedical and telecommunications sectors have recently illustrated the important role intellectual property protection can play in fostering true collaboration.

In an effort to help innovators understand emerging intellectual property issues and capitalize on their creativity, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will partner with the Smithsonian American Art Museum to sponsor a free, two-day Inventors Symposium next week.

The European Court of Justice has ruled to prohibit the patenting of any stem cell research technique that destroys a human embryo, eliciting a range of reactions from the medical community in the process.

Earlier this week, several university leaders and corporate executives joined U.S. Patent and Trademark Office head David Kappos and Obama administration science advisor John Holdren to discuss ways to revive the economy through the promotion of innovation.