The bloody patent battle over a healing machine

By Ken Otterbourg, contributor A negative-pressure wound-therapy device made by Kinetic Concepts Inc. FORTUNE -- A patent royalty is a beautiful thing. It is so much sweeter than found money because…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3947 words)
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Going Gently Into That Good Night

A year after his mother's uncomfortable decline, a son asks: should the terminally ill have control over when and how they die? If you’re dying and don’t care to wait around for death,…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4451 words)

Apple's War on Android

In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on…
PUBLISHED: March 29, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4587 words)
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