As AR adoption accelerates in gaming, commerce, and industrial platforms, this portfolio offers an opportunity to ...

Beulah Louise Henry was just nine years old when she came up with her first invention in 1896, a device that allowed a man to tip his hat without ever putting down his newspaper. By her death in 1973, ...

Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the initial step for emerging companies to protect their ...

In the early 1800s, the U.S. patent office was housed at a converted hotel in Washington, D.C., and when applications were approved, a clerk would ride the agency's pony across town to get the ...

“[N]o matter what enterprise you’re in, you’re going to end up with prolific inventors that you really like working with, but they always move on to different teams, to different companies.” — Jason ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Crowdfunding has become a successful way for an inventor to raise the money needed to create, manufacture and distribute a new product.

In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by ...

The key to making money from an invention is assessing your idea from a business perspective first — not after your patent issues. Is a patent only as “good” as your ability to defend it? Many people, ...

“If you are developing an artificial intelligence that is making more and more judgment calls, and you want to seek patent protection for any resulting inventions, ensure there’s still a human ...

Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that only a human can be recognized as an inventor under the country’s patent law, rejecting ...

Singer didn’t invent the first sewing machine, but the one he patented on this day, Aug. 12, in 1851, was the most practical ...