If patents are to stand the test of litigation, they need to be of high quality. But how is that defined, and how can it be achieved? Cheryl Milone explains Defining patent quality and putting it into ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Determining the market potential of patents can be a complex task for entrepreneurs. The value of a patent doesn’t necessarily equal the ...

The first step in learning about patents is to define what a patent is. Patents are rights granted to the creator of a technique or product that solves a problem or creates a new method of ...

1 minute read When your portfolio comprises hundreds or even thousands of patents it can be daunting to find the most valuable and useful ones. The first step is to understand what you have, but ...

Startups and tech companies are disruptive by nature. We’ve seen that with the advent of the dot-com era, where Google broke free from its browser origins to shape our shopping, dining and travel ...

Will a patent help you grow your business? It depends on who you ask, and what industry they’re in. In some situations, patents have a tremendous amount of value. In others, they don’t. There are no ...

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- China's patent-intensive industries reported an added value of 18.04 trillion yuan (2.58 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2024, accounting for 13.38 percent of gross domestic ...

“If we zoom out to look at all issued patents, then the most common problem, or even the most important problem, is not that there are some wide-but-invalid fences around popular territory. The ...

Knowledgeable Patent Owners Can Take Advantage of Patent-term Extension Provisions Biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents often reach their maximum value toward the end of their term when the ...

“The factors driving perception that patents have lost their value are certainly relevant and have had a substantial impact on patent litigation [but] none of these factors, alone or in combination, ...