Businesses are often founded upon a new invention or unique product designs that set the company apart from competitors. A patent is a type of intellectual property protection that gives inventors of ...

Google was recently granted a patent about ranking web pages that a user will be interested in next. The patent describes assigning an Information Gain score to rank a second set of web pages that are ...

With an ever-increasing amount of information available, efficient patent searching is vital for businesses and researchers. This article, originally published by CAS, outlines five essential ...

“Examination quality is indisputably a controlling factor, not a fallacy, in PTAB invalidations.” This essay is a response to the recently published article by Ron Katznelson, PhD, titled “Fallacy ...

When I began filing patent applications, I thought having a patent would stop others from infringing on my invention. But I learned the hard truth about patents and the patent system by suing one of ...

Although exploiting your own patent portfolio effectively can be an excellent basis on which to build business decisions and strategy, it is not sufficient to know and understand only your own ...

Masato Iida of Shiga International Patent Office calls for greater clarity in the Japanese patent linkage system in comparing it with US and Chinese practice Generic products have been ‘growing the ...