Patenting an invention constitutes a lengthy, expensive and complicated process. You must make sure your invention is patentable while also ensuring that nothing similar has already been patented. In ...

FishStream AI is designed to help users with tasks throughout the patent prosecution process, including drafting applications and responding to office actions.

When you’ve got an idea for a new product, you’ve got to tread carefully in the world of patent help. That’s because many companies out there are happy to take your money with the promise of doing ...

Editor’s Note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual ...

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 ...

This will help deal with some of the issues with patents that are of questionable quality, and that's one of the very important improvements that was called for by the National Academy of Sciences ...

Editor’s note: Colleen V. Chien is an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law who researches and writes and has testified before Congress on patent and patent-reform issues, ...

If you want to make money from your ideas, you have to be pragmatic. First, you need to realize that the odds are against you — and thus, you will need to fight to be paid for your creativity. Is this ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is expanding its use of artificial intelligence to tackle steadily growing patent applications, including an influx of AI-related filings. The patent office last ...

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