The United States patent system is in disarray. The latest international patent rankings from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows that the U.S. patent system has fallen out of the top 1o in the world ...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty, or the PCT as it is typically referred to, came into existence in 1970. It is open to States party to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ...

As a technical writer, I often find myself being introduced to inventors and tinkerers via friends and colleagues. Sometimes these hands-on folks are looking for help with documenting a design or ...

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“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles by Brad Woodcox that explores the topic of intellectual property for entrepreneurs. The first examined the basics of the system. The second ...

There's a new wrinkle in the argument over patenting life: can you patent synthetic life? Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have applied for a U.S. patent on a minimal bacterial genome that ...

Ford is granted over 1,000 patents a year, and this is only an application for a patent. In a statement, the company said, "We don't have any plans to deploy this." On Feb. 23, 2023, the U.S. Patent ...

At the center of the patent is SenoVax (TM), Immorta Bio's first-in-class senolytic immunotherapy, which has demonstrated potent reduction of lung, breast, brain, skin, and pancreatic cancers in ...