The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the launch of its Automated Search Pilot Program, an initiative designed to evaluate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance ...

In the rapidly changing world of innovation and intellectual property protection, understanding the landscape of existing patents is not merely beneficial – it’s a necessity. Patent searches stand as ...

In the US, inventors may be granted exclusive rights to their inventions in exchange for full disclosure of their inventions to the public. A patent provides the right to exclude unauthorized third ...

“The results of the evaluation showed that INSPIRE was a useful resource that could save users time when approaching a new database or new feature…. However, the information was a top-level summary, ...

In 2006, Research in Motion, the maker of the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry device, had to pay $612.5 million to a patent holding company, NTP. Also known as “patent trolls,” these are people or ...

A group of researchers affiliated to the University of São Paulo (USP) - campus Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, used big data tools such as data mining and network analysis to develop a method to help ...

Patent databases worldwide are multiplying. In 2018, 3.3 million patent applications were filed at patent offices worldwide, a 5.2% increase compared to the previous year, according to the World ...

At its core, a patent is a contract between an inventor, who agrees to disclose detailed information about their invention to the public, and the state, which grants them exclusive rights to that ...