You made a discovery and now you’d like to protect it. The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, Clause 8 empowered Congress to pass laws “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by ...

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The definition of a utility patent is a patent that covers “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”[i] Utility patents ...

Key to the value of products businesses produce is patent protection. Patent protection correlates with value and product credibility. Here’s how to understand what a patent is worth. Each year, the U ...

July 31, 2023 - Design patents and utility patents have co-existed in harmony — each staying in its own lane, covering its own subject matter — for over 180 years. The U.S. Patent Act was enacted in ...

Rumours of the death of software patents are greatly exaggerated, say Elliot Cook, Brandon Bludau and Darren Jiron. Various software-based inventions were patented by the USPTO at rates even higher in ...