An underhanded tactic used for some time by shady Amazon sellers has been to file a bogus patent infringement claim against another seller, taking them out of action for several weeks or months while ...

“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 ...

Canton Township-based technology company TrialAssure has been granted a utility patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...