Like many patent owners or aspiring patent owners, at some point you may have found yourself in a situation where design protection was needed, but all you had was narrow utility protection. Perhaps a ...

“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

There are numerous misconceptions that swirl around the concept of building a patent portfolio. Chief among them perhaps is the truth that adequate intellectual property protection for almost any ...

The University of Texas System has again been recognized among the top higher education institutions for utility patent approvals. The Texas university system ranked third on the National Academy of ...

FastWave Medical, a developer in advanced intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) technology, announced the issuance of its sixth utility patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This ...

The USPTO issued new guidelines for determining obviousness in utility patent applications in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in KSR v. Teleflex. In it's announcement, the office also ...

On January 23, 2016, Applicant Bonnie Floyd filed a utility patent application claiming a cooling blanket with ventilated openings along a matrix of sealed compartments. The utility application ...

Canton Township-based technology company TrialAssure has been granted a utility patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Sept. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeKnight, Inc., a leading innovator in AI-enabled safety and health technology, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...