In September 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law. Under one of the most important provisions of the AIA, the longstanding first-to-invent patent system will be replaced ...

The United States has long had a "first-to-invent" patent system in which the date of invention could trump the date of filing a patent application in determining patent rights. However, that is set ...

The patent system in the United States stands in contrast to all other countries in several ways. One of the most important differences is that the United States has a first to invent system. In other ...

Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual ...

Because there are absolutely no black and whites when it comes to intellectual property, self-education is critical. Merely obtaining a patent is easy enough. If you pay a lawyer to help you, he will.

Michael A. Russell unveils eight-patent truth-aligned architecture creating Intelligent Beings, a new class of digital cognition that rewires AI to verify truth, memory, and ethics in real time. LOS ...