New USPTO rules confirm that AI can support the invention process, but only humans can legally claim inventorship under U.S. patent law. The post US Patent office says AI can make inventions, but you ...

The vast majority of patents I sift through every week are incredibly uninteresting, but every so often, there’s one that has ...

The design of the upcoming Chevy Silverado appeared in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing published last week.

A patent filing exposes the exterior design of the next Chevy Silverado, due out for the 2027 model year with a more modern ...

Opinion: The US Patent and Trademark Office's reexamination of one of Nintendo's patents without a third-party petition sends ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I have a conversation about patent eligibility with John Rogitz and Clint Mehall.

Patent attorneys who have primarily focused on work at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board are pivoting, dusting off old skills ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Monday that Montana State University will be home to a newly established Community Engagement Office for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Revelations of unprofessional behavior within the Patent and Trademark Office’s award-winning work-from-home program have been described as “telework abuses” by investigators and lawmakers -- despite ...

The boundaries of academic freedom may be vastly circumscribed by the U.S. Supreme Court this term in a case that is not even on most universities’ radar. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v.

None of this is confirmed, of course, but we’d bet the model is likely to show up next year ...

Prior-art searchers go through the USPTO\'s nearly ten million patents, looking for anything that can be used against an inventor. Troy Norred was on his way home for Thanksgiving in 1998 when he had ...