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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Impower Health Founder and CEO Doug Miller (second from left) speaking at the Piece by Piece summit for investors and inventors. Photo by Ani Schutz/Silicon Prairie News. The University of Nebraska ...

Case Western Reserve University ranks No. 27 nationally for the number of U.S. Utility Patents awarded to the university and its researchers, according to 2023 data compiled by the U.S. Patent and ...