A patent is a document that secures to an inventor the exclusive right to sell, make, or otherwise use his or her invention for a specified number of years. The document details the terms under ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has proposed doing a deal with universities that own patents in return for funding.

Filing a patent application is one of the most important steps an inventor can take. It protects your priority rights, ...

The Trump administration’s threat to take control of Harvard University’s patents risks upending a decades-old partnership ...

When you are moving from idea to invention to patent, regardless of how or why you find yourself stuck in the idea phase, the first order of business to get the ball rolling. You need momentum. By ...

Protecting Inventions Through Patents and Trade Secrets Let's explore the unique strategic considerations you need to review to decide which of the two would help your company best protect and ...

CLE Center offers AI Inventions and Patents: Drafting Patents for Successful Licensing and Enforcement of AI Technology course for continuing legal education credits individually or part of a ...

The full text of the University Patent Policy can be found in the Faculty Handbook, Section 3.7.5. Excerpts from this Policy have been included in the FAQs below. Expand all items + Who is an ...

Inventor and patent agent Gilbert Hyatt lost an appeal seeking to overturn a district court ruling that he unreasonably delayed processing patent applications initially sought three decades ago.

Through patents, you can begin to do some fascinating exploration of Invention Big Data. A team of researchers (I'm friends with them) created a company called PatentVector to do exactly this.