The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued guidance regarding patentability and inventorship for inventions made with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI), clarifying the Office ...

Intellectual property (IP) law provides two different and conflicting ways to protect technology: patent and trade secret protection. A patent protects new and useful inventions. With patent ...

The United Kingdom, Japan and Norway, are all members of both the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Paris Convention. The British Patent Office acts as the Receiving Office for the United Kingdom, the ...

“AI and related tools are available now to support programmatic and ad hoc invention harvesting efforts. To achieve the greatest impact, an organization should consider leveraging multiple tools to ...

“Though these new guidelines may seem unnecessary, there is clear benefit to the public, especially to the applicants who rely on patents for future innovative endeavors.” The United States Patent and ...

Horace Dediu is trying to convince us all to accept a new word of his creation, innoveracy, to aid in explaining new products like Apple's iPhone. Truly ground breaking new products, ones that are ...