The dirigible airship, the oddball aircraft of another era, is making a comeback. California-based Aeros Corporation has created a prototype of its new breed of variable buoyancy aircraft an... Read more
Head off a patent law that he says will favor big companies and hurt lone inventors like himself In Silicon Valley, Apple just won big against Samsung in the patent lawsuit of the year, afte... Read more
The Federation of American Scientists has warned that treating economically sensitive patents like a national security issue would be a mistake More than 5000 US patents have never seen the... Read more
Patent proposal: monitor unauthorized persons outside, authorized inside A future smart home will need a way to sense who its residents are and what they’re doing. One way to do so may... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The USPTO has fast-tracked only one third of requests made to its Green Technology Pilot Program It’s been a slow start for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office... Read more