(MoneyWatch) If innovation is fascinating and has enormous implications for business, reading patent applications themselves will make most people's eyes glaze over. But every now and then something ...

Patent licensing company Conversant Intellectual Property Management today launched an educational campaign against the use of extortionist demand letters that are victimizing thousands of small and ...

So-called “demand letters,”in which patent-holders assert that other businesses or even consumers infringe their patents, have become the focus of many recent efforts to defang patent “trolls.” Such ...

More than 200 retailers, replicators, suppliers and others in the home entertainment industry received a surprise letter this month claiming that two inventors own a patent relating to the process of ...

An anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress two weeks ago and debated at the House Judiciary Committee last week. Yesterday, a Senate committee convened to talk about one of the nastier sides ...

A key group pushing for change to the US patent system has come out today against a reform bill called the TROL Act, saying the bill “falls far short” of its stated goal of fighting misleading patent ...

The article "Critics Fault Court's Grip on Appeals for Patents" (Marketplace, July 7) reports that current detractors of the patent system believe that having appellate courts around the nation hear ...

Under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a state or federal court may exercise jurisdiction over a defendant only if the defendant is at home in the forum state or has sufficient ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate ...

Several documents offering rare insight into Orville Wright will be auctioned Thursday. A 1916 patent transfer document for Wright’s invention of the airplane and one in which the inventor defends his ...