
New Pilot Program Closes Gap in Worldwide Patent Search
Going global with a product idea just got easier thanks to a new bilateral collaboration search pilot program between the United States Patent and Trademark

Going global with a product idea just got easier thanks to a new bilateral collaboration search pilot program between the United States Patent and Trademark

Most people with a marketable product idea protect it by filing a provisional patent while they continue to develop further their idea. As the United

We all have our preferred way of capturing memories, from taking a picture with a camera to recording the action with a camcorder. Now, you

You have a great idea and hope to make millions from it. But first, you have to make sure your idea hasn’t been thought of by anyone else before. If you’re like most people,

A lot of great things make the United States unique, not the least of which is innovation. That distinction has not gone unnoticed by the

If you ever watched the television show Shark Tank, you know a common question asked of the budding entrepreneurs is whether they have a patent

Just like a recipe, a lot of ingredients go into a patent application. Even more components are needed depending on the type of patent for

Imagine a world where intellectual property is not protected and its creators could not benefit from their original works. It’s likely there would be no

Patent Troll is a fairly new term coined by the patenting industry to describe a company, usually a shell company, working on a greater company’s

Many inventors have asked themselves if it would be beneficial to file patents in a foreign country to help protect their ideas. In the 1980s,