In September 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law. Under one of the most important provisions of the AIA, the longstanding first-to-invent patent system will be replaced ...

A new strawberry plant, an optical fiber amplifier, radioimmunotoxins and a visualization spreadsheet are among the patents the University has been issued in the past. Between July 1, 2003, and June ...

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August 29, 2002 — Mechanical engineer and inventor Lloyd Weaver of Harpswell, Maine announced Thursday that he has filed for intellectual property protection on a green energy invention of a high ...

In a guest post to the Managing IP blog, Michele C Bosch and Anthony J Lombardi of Finnegan in Washington DC and Reston VA respectively explain why a constitutional challenge to the recently enacted ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it is creating a new proceeding designed to ensure the first person to file a patent application is actually the true ...

A young inventor participating in Camp Invention, ran by the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame and United States Patent and Trademark Office. Credit: United States Patent and Trademark Office “As I ...