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Print Edition: Week of October 7, 2009

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Exclusive Reports

• Real life advice for inventors
• Failed takeoff leaves entrepreneurs with orphaned IP
• Patents become more granular at tech companies
• Industry veterans share their dealings with noncompete agreements
• Tips to make noncompetes work — and work fairly
• Regulations, paperwork spark growth in e-discovery
• Female-led life sciences IP group works to protect blockbuster drugs
• SoundTag’s RFID tags help receivers find shipping crates
• The Pitch: Propel Careers aims to match interns and entrepreneurs
• Real Deal: What companies are moving, staying or relocating?
• Thought Leader: Open source based in co-dependence
• New England states need cooperative competition

Opinion

• It's time to bring some sanity to intellectual property
• How I See It: Economic growth through entrepreneurship, sound policy
• Patent Watch: Inventors chime in on music patents
• New Commerce office to assist entrepreneurs
• The ‘Bio Governor’ hails possibilities of life sciences

Latest News

• Biogen shares tumble on more MS drug-linked infections [Friday]
• Online sales-lead firm NetProspex closes $2M in equity [Friday]
• Presidential MIT visit: Obama touts cleantech, alternative energy [Friday]
• Molecular Insight signs global cancer therapy deal [Friday]
• Biocell Center opens amniotic stem cell bank in Medford [Friday]
• College students invade NERD for Windows 7 launch party [Friday]
• Wind Power Holdings raises $45M [Friday]
• Nuclea wraps up $3.4 million funding [Friday]
• Artaic founder and CEO Acworth doubles in paranormal investigating [Friday]
• WonderWorld to bring online 3-D virtual community to children [Friday]
• Consumer goods investment up, but healthcare dominates Q3 VC interest [Friday]
• Synta's failed drug target may be reborn from biomarker discovery [Friday]
• Lawrence General Hospital: A beacon of e-health success [Friday]
• Solar tech developer STR files for $212M IPO [Thursday]
• Allegro Diagnostics lands $2.8M SBIR grant for lung cancer diagnostics [Thursday]
• Thermo Fisher Q3 revenue falls, net income up on cost cuts [Thursday]
• Casenet collects $3M in venture debt [Thursday]
• Castile Ventures leads HealthGuru’s $3.2M VC round [Thursday]
• GE launches $250M healthcare IT fund [Thursday]
• DRC pulls in $3.9M to aid military vets’ injury program [Thursday]
• Mass., N.H., Vt. students to join aviation design engineering challenge [Thursday]
• WPI robotics team wins NASA lunar excavation contest [Thursday]
• A123 reported to be seeking $250M in loans [Wednesday]
• Holyoke data center project targeted for 2011 completion [Wednesday]
• Sensor firm Qualtré taps ex-3Com exec Masri as CEO, moves from Atlanta [Wednesday]
• Sun to cut 3,000 jobs [Wednesday]
• Illume Software adds $1M to launch iZUP mobile phone app [Wednesday]
• Rapid7 buys open-source platform Metasploit [Wednesday]
• Genzyme Q3 net income plummets amid plant shutdown woes [Wednesday]
• Lynn welcomes cleantech incubator [Wednesday]
• Genzyme moves oral Gaucher disease drug to Phase 3 trials [Wednesday]
• Sepracor buyout completed; CEO Adams to receive up to $11M [Wednesday]
• Cambridge Consultants touts innovation, launches e-health device [Wednesday]
• Avior pulls in $1.3M, plans new hires [Wednesday]
• Air Force awards SBIR grant to Scientific Systems [Wednesday]
• REvolution Computing lands $9M, new CEO Nie [Wednesday]
• Seventh Sense Biosystems' malaria monitoring project wins Gates Foundation grant [Wednesday]
• Mintera nabs $4M in new funding [Wednesday]
• Biogen Q3 net income, revenue increase [Tuesday]
• UMass Medical School taps Ware for better patient data tools [Tuesday]
• Boston Scientific stock falls after lower guidance [Tuesday]
• Aileron Therapeutics appoints Kafka as CFO [Tuesday]
• Tax prep software startup Copanion nets $10.2M, replaces CEO, CTO [Tuesday]
• Startup Watch: Five you should follow [Tuesday]
• Synageva closes newly increased $45M investment [Tuesday]
• AMSC expands to Australia with wind turbine parts [Tuesday]
• New Q3 VC investment report: Deals, dollars down over 2008 [Tuesday]
• Currensee lands $6M round for online foreign exchange trading [Tuesday]
• Bunker Hill Capital, partner Borden target water/wastewater investments [Tuesday]
• Mass. trade groups team up on STEM program; DIGITS targets 6th graders [Tuesday]
• Immerz puts game vibration on chest device [Monday]
• Cubist pumps $15M into Hydra for pain drug development [Monday]
• Texcel merges with Calif. firm to make CIRTEC [Monday]
• Millipore powers up with $2M solar site [Monday]
• Charles River lays off 115 in Canada [Monday]
• DRC dealt a $20M Air Force parts tracking contract [Monday]
• Report: Beir leaving North Bridge [Monday]
• Athenahealth closes $30M buy of Anodyne [Monday]
• HubSpot hauls in $16M in Series C [Monday]
• Ascension leads $6.1M VC round in Augmenix [Monday]
• Flexion nets $33M in first VC, backed by Versant, 5AM [Monday]
• Alnara touts good safety results on Phase 3 CF target [Monday]
• VC study: Recovery still not here [Monday]