In a relief to startups engaged in innovation, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in India issued orders last Friday rejecting software patents in computer-related inventions ...

In 1871, Margaret Knight earned a patent for inventing a brown paper bag with a flat bottom, the same model that is used in most grocery stores across the country today. More than a century later, ...

Stanford University law professor Mark Lemley asserts that nanotechnology “is the first new field in a century in which people started patenting the basic ideas at the outset.” In contrast to most ...

Women, and especially women of color, patent inventions at much lower rates than men, which means that innovations to improve technology, treat illness, and improve everyday life are being left on the ...

Patents on nanoscale materials, tools and processes are a fair measure of the tsunami-like strength of this latest industrial revolution. Estimates vary on the number of nanotech patents issued since ...

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Deepa K Tiku and Juhi Sakrikar of K&S Partners analyse the latest trends in cannabis patent filings around the world Cannabis was one of the first plants to be domesticated by humans and has a long ...