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In order to show that a corporate officer or director is personally liable for infringing intellectual property, a plaintiff has to meet a different standard for copyright, trademark, and patent infringement. While the bar is set high for each standard, corporate officers and directors must...

Wisconsin’s women entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to be part of the Make Mine a Million business program, which seeks to inspire one million American women business owners to reach the $1 million revenue level by 2010. Wisconsin is the first state to hold a...

Not-so-clever “iconization” is no substitute for smart, savvy branding, as many companies have discovered. Columnist Naseem Javed has had just about enough of this iTrend, and he's calling out overly cute marketers who fail to iDentify something original. ...

The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital and Health System have dedicated a new biomedical research facility. The collaborative project will provide shared research space for Children's Research Institute and the Medical College's Translational and Biomedical Research Center. ...

Scott Converse believes he has his finger on the pulse of information technology workforce development issues, and as director of technology programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School, he has been involved in revamping programs for technology professionals. The latest trend, he explains, is...

The Democratic Party now controls both houses of Congress, and it was reflected in a strong vote in the House of Representatives in favor of lifting President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The vote, however, was still well short of...

Governor Jim Doyle has sent a letter to all members of Wisconsin's Congressional delegation urging them to vote to lift president George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007. The legislation would lift current...

NimbleGen, a Madison biotechnology company that manufactures microarrays for use in scientific research, has entered into a commercial relationship with a British company that also develops microarrays....

Michael J. Dunn will step down as executive vice president and dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin, a position he has held for the past 12 years. He will become a distinguished professor in the Medical College's Department of Medicine once a replacement is...