Inventors and entrepreneurs who are looking to cut costs frequently want to do their own patent search. This is a wise first move, because patent searches are critically important. But inventors need ...

In the United States, if you are the first person to come up with an invention, you may very well be entitled to get a patent on it. If you get a patent on an invention, you will be granted a 17- to ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is exploring the idea of using artificial intelligence to improve searches for “prior art” during the patent process, according to a public solicitation. “However, ...

Google today expanded its search coverage for patents by adding millions of documents from the European Patent Office to Google Patents. Google’s patent search tool went live all the way back in 2006, ...