Companies in the food and beverage industry might overlook significant advantages by not patenting their innovations. While there’s a common belief that “recipes” cannot be patented, unique ...

A patent on a design or product means you or your business can prevent others from making, selling or using the idea. For the most part, the patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are ...

The Patent Act requires patentees to mark their products with the numbers of any patents that cover that product. Put differently, if you produce a product that would infringe one of your patents, you ...

After a childbirth-related injury made being on her feet painful, Natalie Lin struggled to find shoes that were stylish yet comfortable enough for everyday wear. Frustrated with the lack of options on ...

An arms race in patents. A surge in high-cost patent litigation. And the emergence of unscrupulous patent trolls who use the threat of lawsuits to extort nuisance settlements. These are the costly ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Patriot Scientific Corp. had spent nearly a decade trying unsuccessfully to establish a new microprocessor architecture when it decided it needed to do some soul-searching. It hit ...

In 2012, Congress enacted the America Invents Act (AIA), which included, among many reforms, the creation of the now-familiar inter partes review (IPR) process. An IPR petitioner may challenge a ...

When considering intellectual property protection, businesses often overlook the value of design patents and trade dress rights. Products may have ornamentation and/or visual designs that could be ...

“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

The latest batch of Sony patents includes a highly unusual controller design that lacks most features one would normally associate with a gamepad.

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