In Ex parte Baurin (Appeal 2024‑002920), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the examiner’s request for rehearing and reaffirmed its ...

Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the initial step for emerging companies to protect their ...

Washington got one right for a change. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed new “One Challenge” rule may finally break Big Tech’s stranglehold on innovation, revitalize our patent system, ...

A young inventor participating in Camp Invention, ran by the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame and United States Patent and Trademark Office. Credit: United States Patent and Trademark Office “As I ...

Last year, a federal appeals court set aside the awards to USAA after determining the company's patents on depositing checks ...

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, ...

“If you are developing an artificial intelligence that is making more and more judgment calls, and you want to seek patent protection for any resulting inventions, ensure there’s still a human ...

A patent is a document that secures to an inventor the exclusive right to sell, make, or otherwise use his or her invention for a specified number of years. The document details the terms under which ...

A patent provides you with exclusive rights to your new service invention for a limited time, usually 20 years. To qualify for a patent, your new service invention must offer a new way or process of ...

Jim Butt is the kind of guy whose mind is always active. He’s thinking, working to make an improvement. The new south Fort Myers retiree spent 50 years working for snack manufacturer Snyder’s Lance in ...

In the world's first intellectual property (IP), officials in South Africa awarded a patent to an invention made by an artificial intelligence (AI) system - creating a landmark decision that could ...

In the early 1800s, the U.S. patent office was housed at a converted hotel in Washington, D.C., and when applications were approved, a clerk would ride the agency's pony across town to get the ...