patents copyrights and trademarks

Sivaprakash Ramalingam's research was given a lift last month by the state.

Supreme Court hands President Obama an unalloyed gift heading into his re-election bid

Boy Scouts from around the Baltimore area gathered in Annapolis last week to witness a historic event involving the state's transfer of ownership to part of the Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation in northern Harford County.

Bryce Harper has told Comcast SportsNet that Baltimore-based Under Armour will begin selling T-shirts featuring his "that's a clown question, bro" phrase.

The Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America has won approval from state officials to buy 19 acres in Harford County

Beyond 'World of Warcraft': What do we want out of our MMOs?

Organizers expect 50,000 over the course of the weekend, on par with previous years

HonFest caps a rocky year for founder and Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting after controversy over "Hon trademarking and Gordon Ramsay's makeover of her restaurant on "Kitchen Nightmares."

Hampden Column HonFest

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' revisits Baltimore's Cafe Hon

STX, lacrosse stick maker, invests in research and development to grow along with sport.

Gordon Ramsay helped Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting decide to kill the Hon trademark, and yet, mention of it appears in this year's Honfest literature.

Edgwood chemical biological business agreement

Ocean City's Seacrets files a trademark infringement lawsuit against Baltimore restaurant Caribbean Secrets

Baltimore-based Under Armour Inc. is accusing Beverly Hills sports drink maker Body Armor Nutrition LLC of trademark infringement for using a brand name and logo that confuses consumers, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

Federal authorities seized $47.4 million worth of counterfeit luxury goods during last month's raid of Patapsco Flea Market, officials announced Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed two years ago, was an important one for the Maryland megaclub as its seeks to establish a franchise business and underscores its ambitions to expand outside the United States.

A federal grand jury indicted five suspects on charges they sold counterfeit goods, allegedly by high-end designers such as Michael Kors, Coach and Jimmy Choo, at the Patapsco Flea Market and other places in the last six months.

Counterfeiting: Whether it's pirated software or knock-off handbags, fraudulent economic activity harms all of us

The actor discusses embodying the rebel poet and Baltimorean.

A Windsor Mill man has pleaded guilty in Delaware federal court to buying more than a million dollars' worth of pirated software from black-market Chinese vendors who themselves were indicted Wednesday in federal court in Delaware.

Obama Trayvon Martin trademark

Apple's genius is not limited to engineering and design; its accountants have proven creative as well.

Jeanne Kozlowski, of Columbia, is preparing to dance in the Alzheimer Association of Central Maryland's Memory Ball in honor of her husband, Craig.

Millennial Media patent lawsuit

Morris Tischler, a science teacher who invented a 1958 transistorized pacemaker, died of respiratory failure March 9 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.

Vorbeck Materials of Jessup hopes to make powerful, next-generation lithium ion batteries with graphene – batteries that last several times longer than today's batteries, and can re-charge in minutes, not hours. Vorbeck hopes that its graphene-laced batteries will help drive the United States' effort to establish a homegrown electric vehicle industry.

Timajin Nell pleaded guilty Friday to criminal copyright infringement and faces sentencing June 8.

'Cafe Hon: The Relinquishing' to debut on Friday night's episode of "Kitchen Nightmares"

Denise Whiting posts that the 'Kitchen Nightmares' reality show featuring 'Cafe Hon' will air on Feb. 24

Gov. Martin O'Malley wants marriage equality so how about taxpayer-supported pensions for all, too?

Kodak went bankrupt because its executives thought they were selling film — when in fact their business was in selling treasured memories.

Independent musicians' trade group comes out in support of SOPA, PIPA; some musicians balk

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs founded Ball So Hard University as a joke. It took less than three months for the school to get serious, and become the focus of a legal dispute.

Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development

NFL has shut down hundreds of China-based sites selling counterfeit Baltimore Ravens and other team jerseys and other merchandise to U.S. consumers

Peter Morici says U.S. priorities for boosting employment should be fair trade policies, aggressive energy development

Heavy Seas Alehouse to open in February; Matt Seeber to be executive chef

William Magruder Waters, a retired Johns Hopkins and Navy electrical engineer and inventor who built his own car and held patents related to radar imaging, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 17 at Renaissance Gardens at Oak Crest Village. He was 86.

Council of Better Business Bureaus CEO argues that intellectual property theft on the web can put consumers at risk from faulty products.

The Obama administration was correct to reject expanding over-the-counter access to Plan B contraceptive pill