A Cold War-era law lets federal agencies suppress any patent they want—and no one can tell you why.

One of the most common strategic questions I hear from clients is whether a new innovation should be patented or kept as a trade secret. In ...

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The invocation of a "prior user right" addresses the circumstances in which two parties independently invent the same invention. The first inventor may protect the invention as a trade secret while ...

“Rather than requiring an inventor to pay for certain potentially unnecessary patent powers…and/or only providing inventors with certain limited patent powers…the patent durability calculator would ...