In the early 1800s, the U.S. patent office was housed at a converted hotel in Washington, D.C., and when applications were approved, a clerk would ride the agency's pony across town to get the ...

Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the initial step for emerging companies to protect their ...

“If you are developing an artificial intelligence that is making more and more judgment calls, and you want to seek patent protection for any resulting inventions, ensure there’s still a human ...

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BEIJING, 23th March, 2026 (WAM) - Over the past three years, China has seen a significant rise in the industrialisation of invention patents from its universities and research institutions, according ...

“[N]o matter what enterprise you’re in, you’re going to end up with prolific inventors that you really like working with, but they always move on to different teams, to different companies.” — Jason ...

In November, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of KSR v. Teleflex. The case presents the High Court with an opportunity to put a damper on abuse of the patent system, reducing a ...

In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by ...

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to ...