Filing for a patent is like planting your flag on your idea, giving you a legal shield that prevents anyone from copying your ...

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. I still generally ...

Coloradans are inventive: the state ranks in the top 10 for patents filed per capita. It’s also home to a regional US Patent and Trademark Office, one of only four outside the Washington, DC area. The ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we will explore the age-old question about whether it is best to keep an innovation as a trade secret or if it makes sense to seek patent protection. And while this ...

Donald Trump nominee and now USPTO head, John A. Squires, said there are "substantial new questions" about Nintendo's '397 ...

“It is quite likely that you, the reader, have infringed a patent today,” reads the first line of professor Janet Freilich’s recent article in the Virginia Law Review. The millions of patents active ...

“The Snaprays decision and the two cases it cited touch on several areas of intellectual property, and they bear the imprimatur of a Supreme Court justice. It thus seems likely that they will govern ...

Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” Obviously too ...