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Freelance journalist Tam Harbert has covered technology and business for more than 20 years. Based in Washington, D.C., Harbert says her favorite type of article explains how public policy affects the technology business, or vice versa. She has launched, edited, and written for publications targeting engineers, IT managers, investors, and corporate executives. Harbert has won more than a dozen awards for her work, most recently two awards (2014) from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). She has also received the Jesse H. Neal Award for op-ed writing.

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Liability and intellectual property issues are just two areas developers need to know about

NASA Offering Patents to Startups, No Money Down

New startups can get their hands on NASA inventions, but must offer commercial products within five years, or the deal's off

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Internet giant buys 28% of the patents offered during its patent-purchase experiment

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Tam Harbert

The Legal Hazards of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Apps

Liability and intellectual property issues are just two areas developers need to know about

NASA Offering Patents to Startups, No Money Down

New startups can get their hands on NASA inventions, but must offer commercial products within five years, or the deal's off

Google Tries to Keep Patents Out of the Hands of Trolls

Internet giant buys 28% of the patents offered during its patent-purchase experiment

Trending Stories

The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Quantum Computing for Dummies

Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward