Inventions can be extremely valuable, yet it is impossible, and in most cases premature, to apply for a patent the moment it is conceived. For example, time may be required to develop the nascent ...

“In some countries, for inventions made by employees in the course of their employment, it is critical to ask (1) who owns the invention—the employer or employee?—and (2) Is an employee entitled to ...

Patent practitioners must disclose to the PTO all relevant references that are known to them when applying for a patent. As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ruled in Bristol ...

(TNS) — "Patent pending" may become "patent granted" sooner for hopeful innovators throughout New Hampshire and across the country looking to file protection on their inventions with the launch of a ...

I was sitting around thinking about how various things don't work the way they should, and I thought of a good way to make a few of them work better. Let's just say the long distance companies will ...

At its core, a patent is a contract between an inventor, who agrees to disclose detailed information about their invention to the public, and the state, which grants them exclusive rights to that ...

“The [patent] statute confirms that IPRs should not be instituted based on patent applications that published after the priority date of the challenged patent [but] the PTAB has permitted IPRs to be ...