A patent grants the originator of an idea or invention rights to prohibit others from profiting from his invention for 20 years from the time he applies for a utility patent and 14 years from the day ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group, is challenging a patent whose owner claims that it covers many kinds of online testing. The foundation said it had found evidence that a ...

From software patents to product trademarks, we have the experience to protect your valuable ideas,” added Mr. Goldstein. The law firm encourages individuals interested in reading the full article to ...

Wondered if someone's already come up with an idea? Search it out with Patents.com, a search engine and marketplace for intellectual property. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple.

A suit contending Meta infringed on a social media user identity verification patent was dismissed by a California judge, who concluded the claims were merely abstract ideas. The July 31 opinion, ...

The gold rush is still well and alive in California, in the form of creative ideas that can suddenly hit big and make the creator rich. But if you are sitting on the next big television show idea, you ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Crowdfunding has become a successful way for an inventor to raise the money needed to create, manufacture and distribute a new product.

Black inventors hold a unique place in history, whether propelling America forward technologically–Otis Boykin’s improved electrical resistor would later be found in computers, radios, and televisions ...

Nadeem Sarwar is a reporter at Screen Rant focused on TV and film news, covering casting updates, new trailers, and premiere schedules. Apple, as per multiple rumors that have surfaced online lately, ...

One of the annoying design trends we’ve seen in the past 5-6 years is the increasing size and bulkiness of phone camera lens modules. The cameras used to sit flush against the case, but now they stick ...

China filed nearly half of all patents worldwide in 2024, outpacing the US by more than threefold, WIPO data show.