Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network (OIN) has been the only organization focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software (OSS). Its efforts have shielded the open source ...

USPTO Director Squires’s 2025 policies encourage more use of evidence-based SMEDs to challenge patent rejections, especially ...

Unity of invention and double patenting law and practice in Canada can create challenges for patent applicants. For example, applicants may not expect a unity of invention objection to be raised, ...

In Ex parte Baurin (Appeal 2024‑002920), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied the examiner’s request for rehearing and reaffirmed its ...

A: Patent law allows you to patent an invention, machine, process, plant or design. Once (or if) you have determined that your device can be protected by a patent, you will then decide what type 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, ...

Back in 1955, John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" to represent the science of developing intelligent machines. The following year, McCarthy established AI as a field when he ...

Min Son of Hanol IP & Law summarises the key points of the Korean Intellectual Property Office’s updated guidance regarding artificial intelligence patent filings as the intellectual property world ...

We found a few new patents from Rivian this week, including one particularly interesting new one, showcasing neat-looking functions that the brand is considering for the R1S SUV and possibly R1T truck ...

A colleague at work came to me with an intellectual property question that I found important to share with you. He asked me whether it is possible to apply for patent registration of a unique software ...