For years, America’s leading retailers have benefited from a little-known program that helps to resolve meritless patent ...

If your business relies on bringing innovations to market that generate returns on investment, then a well-designed patent strategy is critical for realizing those returns. Patents help introduce new ...

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The key to making money from an invention is assessing your idea from a business perspective first — not after your patent issues. Is a patent only as “good” as your ability to defend it? Many people, ...

For hundreds of years, we've been told patents help deliver big new inventions, such as life-saving drugs. They are meant to be a bargain between the inventor and the public: tell us how your ...

A Senate committee approved a bipartisan bill Nov. 21 to help small businesses protect their patents from predatory, giant corporations. With the bill now up for a floor vote, lawmakers should do ...

While larger companies typically dominate patent filings, if you’re a small or mid-size business, understanding how these giants use patents can offer valuable insights for shaping your own ...

Researchers have deployed machine-learning techniques to analyze patents for products made from animal parts, in an effort to identify trends in the wildlife trade. The team analyzed patents filed ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has two controversial measures out for comment as it tries to make itself more fit to battle an application backlog of unprecedented proportions. Congress, ...

Patents tend to get a lot of hate these days, mostly because the patent office is prone to approving some strangely basic ideas. That can cause headaches for everyone down the line. But researchers ...