The nature of a utility patent is covered in Title 35, Part II, Chapter 10, Subsection 101 of the United States Code, which defines it as any invention for which a patent may be obtained: "Whoever ...

A provisional patent application (PPA) can protect an invention from copycats before it undergoes the more rigorous process of patent approval. The "patent pending" label identifies such a product.

Most people use it to describe passenger cars and trucks today, but its definition wasn’t always so straightforward. Depending on how strictly the term is interpreted, there are several contenders for ...

It is impossible to give a precise definition of what constitutes a patentable invention, since the answer depends upon many factors. The final determination of patentability is made by the Patent ...

In this same vein, questions over AI’s potential to be listed as a co-inventor in the United States with a human are settled by AI’s inability (so far) to recognize the utility of an invention, ...

Yet by advocating a minimal definition of close reading that elides argumentation in particular, Guillory—against his own political inclinations—impedes its democratization, making it an ...

DURHAM, N.C., April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Open Invention Network (OIN), the only institution focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software, is marking its 20 th year of ...

Leo Szilard was waiting to cross the road near Russell Square in London when the idea came to him. It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima ...