IBM is giving the health care and education industries free access to its patent portfolio, the company said Monday. Organizations within these fields can tap IBM's patents for development and use ...

Technologies include grapple assist, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text and size contrast tool ...

America has long been the land of innovation. More than 13,000 years ago, the Clovis people created what many call the “first American invention” – a stone tool used primarily to hunt large game. This ...

New guidance from the USPTO says AI systems 'regardless of their sophistication, cannot be named as inventors or joint ...

The game developer says it hopes to start a trend of making these types of patents freely accessible and popular to use. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has contracted with Second Avenue Learning to launch EquIP HQ, a free K–12 platform for teachers and students to learn how to invent solutions to ...

Adam was a Visiting Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The U.S. has eviscerated the patent rights that help to power the innovation engine ...

“Understanding and dispelling common myths about software patents is not just an academic exercise – it’s a crucial step for innovators and companies seeking to defend themselves against competitors ...

Shontavia Johnson owns and consults for Jackson Johnson LLC, a business and innovation consulting firm. One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors ...

When it comes to intellectual property, “patents” might spring to mind. A good patent can give startups a competitive edge, and once you’ve been granted one, nobody can come and mess with your ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Filing for a patent is a landmark ofthe ‘valley of death’ inventors have to cross from invention to market. Unfortunately, I have heard ...