Commentary

The new 2007-09 state budget contains much to be encouraged about, but still leaves too much unfinished business, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still identifies the budgetary winners and losers inside and outside of the technology realm. ...

If your IT projects are plagued by those premature celebrations, it might be time to establish a new "toll-gate" process during the project-design phase, according to columnist Patrick Gray. In this edition of Breakthrough IT, he suggests giving your project teams a list of smart...

What can inventors do in response to the controversial KSR patent reform case? When considering patent protection, they should analyze the prior art landscape, according to Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek attorneys Jeffrey McIntyre and Jonathan Fritz. In this edition of IP Law, they write that understanding...

When American companies leave their homeland domain and venture into China, they don't necessarily take their trademarks and domain names with them, according to columnist and attorney Deborah Wilcox. In this edtion of IP Online, Wilcox offers some advice on how U.S. businesses can protect...

College students are not the only ones engaged in the world of social networks like MySpace and Facebook. In this edition of Buzz Networks, columnist Paul Gibler brings you up to date on some rapidly evolving social-networking trends, including the fact that corporations finally are...

What needs to be done in order to bolster downtown and suburban office building leases? How about making sure they are the intelligent office buildings required by modern businesses that compete globally, suggests columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he maintains that...

Columnist Michael Rosen does some Bio-MidAmerican Investor Conference follow up and looks at a recent report ranking the climate for start-up businesses in 178 countries. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, he notes that the United States and other major developed nations rank lower...