When there is intellectual property to protect, entrepreneurs often think of patents. But what is a patent? How do you obtain a patent? What does the process entail and cost? This article explores ...

The quality of a patent begins to take shape at the time of disclosure. An inadequate disclosure can greatly affect the quality of the patent. The level of sophistication of a client typically ...

While trade secrets provide several noteworthy advantages over patents, trademarks, and copyrights, establishing and ...

(A&R Vets to Ventures features a co-authored article with our friends from Data² - a veteran-owned small business that leverages advanced analytics, data science, machine learning, and AI to enable ...

There’s an apocryphal story of Christopher Columbus making an egg stand on its end after a hearty meal, showing that what seemed impossible was actually 'common sense' once demonstrated. Today, a ...

The U.S. patent system is facing challenges from many stakeholders, including from groups that believe a weak patent system will result in lower drug prices and more widely available treatments. Such ...

As famously explained by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Dilemma, innovation disrupts an industry first by offering a simple and affordable alternative, with initially inferior quality and then ...

Discover the fundamentals of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Learn how ...

In fast cycles, teams commit to features, designs, and markets long before the full extent of legal risk is known. Traditional patent searching is thorough but slow and expensive when used as the ...

In goods- and manufacturing-focused industries, the most valuable intellectual property is frequently not the product design ...