Nintendo’s latest monster-catching patent application has been rejected in Japan after an examiner used footage from an ...

This paper presents a global empirical analysis of how industrial policies (IPs) affect patent applications, with an instrumental-variable strategy that addresses selection in policy targeting by ...

As famously explained by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Dilemma, innovation disrupts an industry first by offering a simple and affordable alternative, with initially inferior quality and then ...

In Ex parte Baurin (Appeal 2024‑002920), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the examiner’s request for rehearing and reaffirmed its prior reversal of six nonstatutory obviousness‑type ...

An analysis of Tesla’s patent applications shows a slower pace of innovation in the last 2 years and a shift toward AI hardware and software as Elon Musk is betting the house on autonomous driving and ...

Hwa-Kyun Lee and Youngmin Park of FirstLaw explain the country’s strict divisional filing system, the risks of double patenting, and recent legislative changes shaping how applicants pursue related ...

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The Commerce Department is reportedly considering a novel revenue-raising idea to address the national debt: a “patent tax.” Under this proposal, patent holders would be required to pay the federal ...

A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry. By Max Bearak and Mira Rojanasakul This is a patent application filed by a Chinese company in ...

The company claiming it can restore lost species also wants to patent them. Colossal Biosciences not only wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—it wants to patent it, too. MIT Technology Review has ...

Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” Obviously too ...