What is a Utility Patent? Utility patents cover a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. Design patents are much more common in the fashion industry since design ...

The definition of a utility patent is a patent that covers “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”[i] Utility patents ...

Black’s Law dictionary defines “utility patent” as “the customary type of patent issued to any novel, non-obvious, and useful machine, article of manufacture, composition of matter or process.” A ...

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A list released this week by the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association showed that Drexel University once again ranked in the world’s top 100 for patents granted ...

Awarded utility patent is the second patent issued to AYRO this year and is one of several patents in process by AYRO to support the Company's product roadmap. The utility patent represents a ...

A report released this morning puts Case Western Reserve 21st among 100 world universities receiving U.S. utility patents last year. Based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), ...

Samsung is among the most inventive companies in the world after topping a US patent list compiled by data journalism site Sqoop. The study ranked companies on three metrics: number of utility patent ...

Patents protect inventors from having their inventions copied and distributed illegally for profit. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issues patents in design, plant and utility categories ...

If you come to a patent attorney with a provisional that you filed pro se or used a cheap online service and ask the attorney to file the utility, you may already be behind the eight ball. You have a ...

The move echoes one of the most famous examples of U.S. patent enforcement—the Wright Brothers, who leveraged their aircraft ...

In May 2018, a California jury held that Samsung must pay Apple almost $540 million in a patent infringement lawsuit directed to smartphones. Notably, 99 percent of the jury verdict was based on ...