John Covert, Bonnie Nannenga-Combs, Ph.D. The government established an electronic system (iEdison) for grantees and contractors to report inventions arising out of federal funding and to comply with ...

Brian Dudley, Ph.D., Gaby Longsworth, Ph.D. 35 U.S.C. § 101 precludes a patentee from obtaining more than one patent on the same invention. Courts have extended this prohibition “to preclude a second ...

Artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life, but as the technology rapidly advances, federal agencies are trying to adopt new standards for its use. One agency, the United States Patent ...

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.

When I began filing patent applications, I thought having a patent would stop others from infringing on my invention. But I learned the hard truth about patents and the patent system by suing one of ...

The key to making money from an invention is assessing your idea from a business perspective first — not after your patent issues. Is a patent only as “good” as your ability to defend it? Many people, ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Army researchers have developed an innovative design for immediate on-the-ground chemical and biological assessment, giving traditional everyday laboratory equipment a ...