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Pharmaceutical giant Allergan struck a bold and unusual deal to protect its patents on a lucrative eye drug in September.

Of all the minor annoyances in life, potholes can be one of the worst. Besides giving the driver an unceremonious jolt, they caused car damage to the tune of $6.4 billion in 2013. One day there could be an app to solve that.

Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual property. What place, if any, would IP — patents, copyrights, trademarks and the like — have in a libertarian society?

Irish innovators received a significant boost on Tuesday when the Minister Bruton TD signed the Unified Patent Court Agreement in Brussels.

A regional court in Germany ruled on Tuesday that Google Inc.’s Motorola’s Xoom tablet does not infringe on Apple Inc.’s design patents, undermining Apple’s plan to impose a Europe-wide ban on the tablet, according to technology magazine PCWorld.

In a symbolic decision that could help bring the rivaling companies closer to a settlement, a Dutch court gave Samsung Electronics Co. its first victory in court in a slew of global patent disputes with Apple Inc.