When I began filing patent applications, I thought having a patent would stop others from infringing on my invention. But I learned the hard truth about patents and the patent system by suing one of ...

A consistent, strong correlation, if not a causal relationship, exists between property rights in inventions (patents) and growing innovation economies and flourishing societies. This is not ...

Ever since the term "artificial intelligence" (AI) was first coined by John McCarthy in 1956, the field has experienced long periods in which the hype around AI's potential far exceeded its ability to ...

Decreasing patent quality and the high risk and cost of patent litigation are threatening US innovation. Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner, authors of Innovation and Its Discontents, present reform proposals ...

The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In response to weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, ...

“To modernize our patent infrastructure, we need better tools to help inventors and examiners find relevant prior art.” Patent categories were established more than 100 years ago. There are dozens of ...

Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much these days, but, across party lines, there’s a common and intense worry that our patent system is broken, and U.S. innovation-and thus, economic ...

Masato Iida of Shiga International Patent Office calls for greater clarity in the Japanese patent linkage system in comparing it with US and Chinese practice Generic products have been ‘growing the ...