Note: The U.S. Supreme Court has made a practice lately of slapping down the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court Congress has designated for hearing appeals of patent cases. In ...

I'm the former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Nobel winners show strong patent systems directly fuel ...

When a big pharma company loses patent protection on a hit drug, it can blow a hole in the company's top line. Just ask investors in Pfizer, sales of whose megablockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor ...

Investing.com -- AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) stock rose over 3% after the company announced it has settled litigation with all generic manufacturers that filed applications for generic versions of its RINVOQ ...

“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 ...

When an employee conceives of a new innovation, a business is often confronted with a difficult decision — whether to apply for patent protection on the innovation or whether to keep the innovation ...

Forget competition — new research says that sharing patents with competitors will be the real factor that drives future innovation. That’s the finding of Gilad Sorek, an assistant visiting professor ...

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 ...

The recent wave of attention to patent litigation has focused on struggles between technology giants, like Apple and Google, but the problems with our patent system, which are profound, are not ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There was a time when inventors did not have to worry about protecting intellectual property outside their country, largely because ...