Explore the USPTO and patent system's role in protecting intellectual property and fostering innovation and economic growth.

Opinion: Steptoe's Christopher Suarez says recent social media posts by Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey fail to account for the ...

Eric J. Fues and Kyle W. Howarth of Finnegan address the on-sale bar in patent law, with a focus on how pre-filing sales of suppliers to the patentee or third-party sales can run afoul of the on-sale ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a patent applicant seeking provisional rights on a patent that would issue only after it had already expired, finding that the ...

Millions of patent applications for new inventions and innovations across industries are filed globally annually. To ensure ...

MercExchange drastically altered patent law. Before eBay, courts granted injunctions to stop patent infringement in 94%-100% of cases in which infringement was found. By 2013, that number had fallen ...

Patent Bots, creator of AI-enabled software for patent attorneys, is pleased to announce its sixth annual Patent Quality ...

Query: I saw a cool new patented invention, and I want to make a copy to conduct experiments and perform research. I won’t ...

Certainly, patent practitioners alone cannot change the system that lends itself to the tension between the courts resolving ...

If President Donald Trump’s administration—whether through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) or another initiative—treats the USPTO like other agencies, it could weaken the competitive ...

British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and rival Pfizer have agreed to end a lawsuit that alleged Pfizer's respiratory ...

The University of Michigan named patent law expert Neel U. Sukhatme as the new dean of its law school. Sukhatme is currently ...