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On appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”), the Federal Circuit held that, under pre-America Invents Act (“pre-AIA”) law, a published patent application is prior art as of its filing date as ...

Will a patent help you grow your business? It depends on who you ask, and what industry they’re in. In some situations, patents have a tremendous amount of value. In others, they don’t. There are no ...

GM has filed a patent application for a non-pneumatic wheel design, which could serve as a lightweight vehicle wheel that ...

On Tuesday, patent data analytics firm IFI CLAIMS published its annual report of the top 50 U.S. patent recipients for 2025.

Too many entrepreneurs treat filing a patent as a milestone in itself—proof that their invention matters. But filing a patent too early, or without a clear business strategy, can create serious ...

Two former Palantir employees hoping to use AI to transform the process for filing and managing patents have secured $20 ...

CLAIM: A COVID-19 test patent application is dated 2020 but was actually filed in 2015. THE FACTS: The patent application, for a system to determine if someone has a viral infection such as COVID-19, ...