Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent ...

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday backed away from a decades-old legal test that high-tech firms argue has sparked an abundance of obvious patents. In a hotly anticipated decision that ...

Business method patents have been a contentious issue, with some saying that they're necessary for software innovation and others claiming that they prevent innovation. The Bilski case, which will be ...

“[O]ur elimination of the rigid Rosen-Durling test is compelled by both the statute and Supreme Court precedent.” – CAFC opinion But in June 2023, the court granted an increasingly rare en banc review ...

A new method for evaluating hearing has received a second patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Work leading to the patent, “Method for Determining Hearing Thresholds in the Absence of ...

Counsel at Novartis and other pharma firms explain how the ever-changing standard for patent eligibility in the US has frustrated innovation by narrowing the scope of patentable subject matter ...

Discover how a Provisional Patent Application protects your invention with the "patent pending" label and learn about its benefits, limitations, and filing process with the USPTO.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is wrestling with an abstract case involving automobile gas pedals that could apply the brakes to the dramatic growth in patents issued nationwide. Frustrated justices ...

An American firm’s new European patent on a screening test for a genetic mutation that causes breast cancer has created an uproar among geneticists in Israel and Europe, who say the patent raises ...