A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent Office. The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Why would a cell phone company patent an idea to prevent cell phone usage? Verizon Communications submitted a Patent Application last month, which is entitled System and Method ...

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“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

Patents protect inventors from having their inventions copied and distributed illegally for profit. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issues patents in design, plant and utility categories ...

A list released this week by the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association showed that Drexel University once again ranked in the world’s top 100 for patents granted ...

Samsung is among the most inventive companies in the world after topping a US patent list compiled by data journalism site Sqoop. The study ranked companies on three metrics: number of utility patent ...

Engineers are well trained to be inventors, but most lack the legal know-how to be experts at getting patents on their inventions. Should they get a utility patent or a provisional one? How about a ...

A report released this morning puts Case Western Reserve 21st among 100 world universities receiving U.S. utility patents last year. Based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), ...

In May 2018, a California jury held that Samsung must pay Apple almost $540 million in a patent infringement lawsuit directed to smartphones. Notably, 99 percent of the jury verdict was based on ...