Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network (OIN) has been the only organization focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software (OSS). Its efforts have shielded the open source ...

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Artificial intelligence has myriad use cases, but it turns out inventing devices isn't one of them-- at least in the eyes of the US Patent and Trademark Office. The agency issued a decision on two ...

Can AI be an inventor? According to a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the answer seems to be no. There is more to this story, though, and we’ll need to push past the ...

As an inventor holding over 100 U.S. patents – including the Super Soaker water gun, Nerf dart guns, clean energy technologies and many more – I know firsthand the vital role that patents play in ...

“[N]o matter what enterprise you’re in, you’re going to end up with prolific inventors that you really like working with, but they always move on to different teams, to different companies.” — Jason ...

According to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the number of valid invention patents held on the Chinese mainland had reached 5.32 million by the end of 2025. The ...