The book also describes how businesspeople in each era acquired and enforced patents and used patents as the foundation of various business arrangements. This book is a landmark in the history of ...

This metric reflects the number of patents by state granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office annually. States are ranked on the average number of patents granted per million residents.

For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection ...

Dec 6 - The U.S. Department of Justice is exploring whether foreign entities are financing U.S. patent lawsuits in order to steal trade secrets from American companies, according to a report ...

The US has thrown its support behind a move at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily lift patent protections for coronavirus vaccines. Advocates of the move say it would increase ...