Discover how a Provisional Patent Application protects your invention with the "patent pending" label and learn about its ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

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A new GM patent filing describes a system designed to provide precise remote vehicle control over steering, braking, ...

Collecting the information necessary to prepare a patent application covering a computer related invention can be quite challenging. Typically, most computer related inventions today relate at least ...

An analysis of Tesla’s patent applications shows a slower pace of innovation in the last 2 years and a shift toward AI ...

“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

GM has filed a patent application for a vehicle window switch design, potentially consolidating multiple window functions ...

One thing has become clear from following NIO's various patent applications to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: the company has a lot of ideas about how to improve the technology in electric ...

If you want to make money from your ideas, you have to be pragmatic. First, you need to realize that the odds are against you — and thus, you will need to fight to be paid for your creativity. Is this ...