“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 ...

When an employee conceives of a new innovation, a business is often confronted with a difficult decision — whether to apply for patent protection on the innovation or whether to keep the innovation ...

In the US, inventors may be granted exclusive rights to their inventions in exchange for full disclosure of their inventions to the public. A patent provides the right to exclude unauthorized third ...

As anyone who follows technology is aware, ChatGPT has made one of the biggest splashes in the innovation pool in recent memory. It has already had a profound effect on the software space as the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There was a time when inventors did not have to worry about protecting intellectual property outside their country, largely because ...

In a perfect world, the system for conveying medications from their makers to patients should be designed to deliver the lowest-cost drugs. The system in the U.S. doesn’t even come close. Insurers ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Crowdfunding has become a successful way for an inventor to raise the money needed to create, manufacture and distribute a new product.

Design patents for component parts are an appealing option for many automotive manufacturers. A design patent is a form of intellectual property right that protects “any new, original and ornamental ...

The OIN, the world's largest patent non-aggression community in history, is adding the following programs and components to the Linux System: .NET, ONNX, tvm ...

National Belgian patents are granted after only a formal examination. A patent can be sought for a duration of either six or 20 years. There are no provisions for utility models. Supplementary ...