IBM is giving the health care and education industries free access to its patent portfolio, the company said Monday. Organizations within these fields can tap IBM's patents for development and use ...

Technologies include grapple assist, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text and size contrast tool ...

America has long been the land of innovation. More than 13,000 years ago, the Clovis people created what many call the “first American invention” – a stone tool used primarily to hunt large game. This ...

The game developer says it hopes to start a trend of making these types of patents freely accessible and popular to use. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has contracted with Second Avenue Learning to launch EquIP HQ, a free K–12 platform for teachers and students to learn how to invent solutions to ...

When it comes to intellectual property, “patents” might spring to mind. A good patent can give startups a competitive edge, and once you’ve been granted one, nobody can come and mess with your ...

Author Dylan Adams is a patent attorney at the Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering and a bachelor’s in biochemistry. An excerpt from his recent book, ...

Adam was a Visiting Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The U.S. has eviscerated the patent rights that help to power the innovation engine ...

When Jarek Duda invented an important new compression technique called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS) a few years ago, he wanted to make sure it would be available for anyone to use. So instead of ...

Shontavia Johnson owns and consults for Jackson Johnson LLC, a business and innovation consulting firm. One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors ...