According to the story by TheSun.co.uk, the patent paperwork goes into detail about a warning system that includes a light and text display on the exterior of the car that will indicate when the ...

“Although DOCX fees are currently set to go into effect next January, multiple extensions to that deadline as well as the indefinite extension to the PDF filing option indicate that this issue and ...

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) published a pair of documents in the Federal Register regarding due dates on new document formatting requirements for patent applications filed with the ...

Love it or hate it, the United States patent system formed on April 10, 1790 when President George Washington signed a bill that gave inventors rights to their creations. The law gave the patent board ...

A notice of allowance is issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office to indicate that it believes an invention qualifies for a patent. However, the person originally filing for the patent is ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is drowning in paper, but plans to convert some of its paperwork to electronic form are meeting with resistance. At a hearing last week, the Patent Office ...

As you’ve no doubt heard, Apple has won a patent for its coveted multitouch technology on the iPhone and is also in the process of trademarking the term “Multi-Touch.” (You can see some of the patent ...

A new patent is raising privacy concerns from consumers and workers. Walmart has been granted approval for a listening system to measure employees performance at checkout. The problem? The cart-based ...

This week, the biggest science-patent dispute in decades is getting a hearing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters. The invention in dispute is the gene-editing technique CRISPR, and ...