Entrepreneurs

The consensus opinion is that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will have a profound impact on patent law, but will it affect the dispute over stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation? Combatants on both sides of the dispute weigh in,...

Sonic Foundry, which had turned a profitability corner last year, has reported a net loss in the second quarter of fiscal 2007. The rich media company, which has added an advanced search function on its Mediasite communications product, also saw its quarterly revenues increase by...

The Abbott-Thailand patent saga is more than just a dispute between an American company and a foreign government, according to columnist and physician Ogan Gurel. At stake is what former Wisconsin governor and HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson calls “the balancing act between innovation and access.”...

As part of its plan for customer adoption, Jellyfish.com, a Madison-based shopping search engine, is partnering with Channel Intelligence to combine its cost-per-action advertising model with CI's sales-tracking technology. Jellyfish is competing with online advertisers that use the cost-per-click model, which is still the most...

Are American technology and life-science businesses getting a bum rap when they take advantage of the H-1B specialty worker program? Attorney Grant Sovern thinks so, and in this guest column he defends the program and urges Congress to lift the cap on the number of...

How do we excite more students about careers in the STEM disciplines? That's a question many educators and employers have been asking lately. In his latest Inside Wisconsin column, Tom Still recognizes Timothy Jump, an educator who may have the answer. Jump, who recently led...

University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Jamie Thomson has reportedly accepted an offer to open a research lab as an adjunct professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Thomson will remained a tenured professor at UW-Madison, and work in Santa Barbara for about one month...

Recent changes in patent law demand that patentees making unsolicited licensing proposals change their tactics and plan their strategy before mailing demand letters, according to attorney Charles Crueger of Michael Best & Friedrich. He writes that any company that doesn't take these new rules of...

Citing strong performance in its financial institution segments, Fiserv, Inc. reported a net income of $113.5 million during the first quarter of 2007. The company also reported $1.2 billion in total revenues for the three-month period, an increase of 11 percent over the same quarter...

In a move to bring together multiple imaging technologies in a central clinical content managing system, Aurora Health Care will install the Evercore clinical information management product developed by Milwaukee's TeraMedica. ...