Canada’s Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) system came into force on January 1, 2025. PTA is only potentially available for ...

Stanford University law professor Mark Lemley asserts that nanotechnology “is the first new field in a century in which people started patenting the basic ideas at the outset.” In contrast to most ...

In a relief to startups engaged in innovation, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in India issued orders last Friday rejecting software patents in computer-related inventions ...

In Ex parte Baurin (Appeal 2024‑002920), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the examiner’s request for rehearing and reaffirmed its ...

In 1871, Margaret Knight earned a patent for inventing a brown paper bag with a flat bottom, the same model that is used in most grocery stores across the country today. More than a century later, ...

Women, and especially women of color, patent inventions at much lower rates than men, which means that innovations to improve technology, treat illness, and improve everyday life are being left on the ...

Patents on nanoscale materials, tools and processes are a fair measure of the tsunami-like strength of this latest industrial revolution. Estimates vary on the number of nanotech patents issued since ...

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Biotechnology scientists must be aware of the broad patent landscape and push for new patent and licensing guidelines, according to a new paper. Biotechnological inventions have been patented for ...

The UK has real strengths in quantum technology. But is it turning those into commercial assets and IP quickly enough?

“Considering the numbers and the results of McKinsey’s research, we can conclude that substantial profitability is not being realized.” The importance and profitability of diversity are already ...

An international project has developed a free and open public resource that will bring much-needed transparency to the murky and contentious world of gene patenting. An international project has ...