The tech industry usually doesn’t pay much attention to the happenings at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the October case schedule that was released last Thursday managed to generate a lot of buzz....
The usefulness of patents extends far beyond the courtroom. They can put a company in a better position to negotiate with investors and buyers, generate new revenue streams and even serve as a tool...
Here's a nice visual explainer of the unitary patent system that started rolling out in 2012 across the European Union. It's the culmination of decades of negotiations among the...
The first patents appeared in fifteen-century Venice, as royal decries granting inventors the protection of the Republic, but the concept of intellectual property dates back much further than that to...
