Some academic researchers shrink at the idea of patenting their work. Why put protections on an idea you want the world to own and use? Yet securing a patent can often be a critical step in making an ...

“Refiling a provisional is just a bad idea when you can, for a few hundred dollars more, keep hold of that earliest priority date and continue on the path to obtaining a patent.” The question that we ...

When an employee conceives of a new innovation, a business is often confronted with a difficult decision — whether to apply for patent protection on the innovation or whether to keep the innovation ...