The USPTO continues to invest heavily in AI capabilities; a new pilot program is designed to assess patent applications for ...

Steven Rushing is the patent attorney who founded Patent Monk alongside his brother Jordan, a web developer. Steven initially started out wanting to solve a common problem he observed, which was that ...

“Although AI-based patent search tools are agile and user-friendly, they can be integrated with manual searches conducted by experienced analysts to obtain better results.” With the forecasted growth ...

Why AI patent work matters now . In fast cycles, teams commit to features, designs, and markets long before the full extent ...

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and ...

Before you spend a lot of time an energy creating the next big thing, use a patent search to make sure it hasn’t already been done. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The ...

The four biggest providers of patent search systems are constantly updating their functionality. Christopher Jagalla highlights changes in the two years since the last Managing IP survey Prior art ...

You have an amazing, earth-shattering idea; an ingenious way to solve an old problem, or a groundbreaking new technology. Of course, you can’t patent an idea. But as soon as you’ve fleshed it out to ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is exploring the idea of using artificial intelligence to improve searches for “prior art” during the patent process, according to a public solicitation. “However, ...

OCEAN CITY — They’re lurking, researching, writing letters. At every turn, they’re trying to claim an idea as their own. They’re patent trolls. “We’re talking about today, the scary thing under the ...