The Federal government and patent agency IP Australia have launched a new open, online database featuring almost 20 years' worth of the country's patent application records, in a bid to make it ...

Some great ideas have never received a patent, but most have. A quick spin through a patent database can give you a good head start on finding out just how innovative your invention is. The Bad ...

The unspoken reality is that the U.S. patent system creates a market so constricted by high transaction costs and legal risks that it excludes the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses ...

Aurigins database tracks 12 million patents held at four organizations: the U.S., European and Japanese patent offices and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Manufacturers can research the patent database looking for components suitable to perform mechanical, chemical or electrical functions in new tools or in consumer-devices they are building.

Eric Topel becomes AI-driven patent database company Patsnap's first general counsel. Topel was lured from Nevada-based digital ID verification company Socure. Patsnap has raised at least $350 ...

Univentio, the patent-information company he runs in the Netherlands, has discovered that Espacenet, the European online patent database, is missing 322,000 UK Patent Office documents, plus ...

The Google Patents Database also displays a series of diagrams with the toilet paper going over as well. The 1891 patent from Seth Wheeler shows that the toilet paper should go up and over.

Enfish sued Microsoft for infringing two “self-referential” database patents, Patents 6,151,604 and 6,163,775. The district court held that all of Enfish’s patent claims were invalid as ...

BSG asserted three patents with similar specifications that were directed to a “self-evolving generic index” for organizing information stored in a database — U.S. Patents No. 6,035,294 ...