In a relief to startups engaged in innovation, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in India issued orders last Friday rejecting software patents in computer-related inventions ...

More than 150 technology breakthroughs identified in a new IEA report, with energy security emerging as a leading driver of innovationThe world's energy innovation landscape is e. . .

Stanford University law professor Mark Lemley asserts that nanotechnology “is the first new field in a century in which people started patenting the basic ideas at the outset.” In contrast to most ...

In 1871, Margaret Knight earned a patent for inventing a brown paper bag with a flat bottom, the same model that is used in most grocery stores across the country today. More than a century later, ...

Control and ownership of nanotechnology is a vital issue for all governments and civil society because nanomaterials and processes can be applied to virtually any manufactured good across all industry ...

Jeffrey Weinick is a registered patent attorney and co-chair of the intellectual property group at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi P.C. in West Orange. Jeffrey Weinick is a registered patent attorney ...

Women, and especially women of color, patent inventions at much lower rates than men, which means that innovations to improve technology, treat illness, and improve everyday life are being left on the ...

On June 22 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued decision G 4/19 (Double patenting), in which it held that a European patent (EP) application can be refused if it ...

Panellists at the Managing IP US Patent Forum delved into the complexities and challenges of patenting artificial intelligence as the technology evolves Despite some governments taking huge steps to ...

You've just invented the greatest product known to mankind—or at least you think so. And you know that you must quickly protect this brilliant idea with a patent because someone will surely steal it ...