Inventors and entrepreneurs who are looking to cut costs frequently want to do their own search. This is a wise first move, but you really need to be careful. It is quite common for inventors to ...

As you work with your attorney to complete a non-provisional patent application for your utility, design or asexually reproducing plant-based invention, your attorney will need to conduct a thorough ...

A frequent pain point in the realm of patents is being unable to find pertinent patent publications quickly and efficiently. In an attempt to provide the public with better search tools, the United ...

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and ...

Businesses are often founded upon a new invention or unique product designs that set the company apart from competitors. A patent is a type of intellectual property protection that gives inventors of ...

This communication provides an easy-to-follow protocol for using the free Internet-accessible scientific search engine, Scirus, to search for and subsequently retrieve published patents from several ...

The design of Google's search results page earned U.S. patent protection this week, bringing the total number of patents held by the search giant to some three dozen. Design Patent No. 533,561, ...

Inventors and entrepreneurs who are looking to cut costs frequently want to do their own patent search. This is a wise first move, because patent searches are critically important. But inventors need ...