Federal funding is a huge boon for companies, universities, and research institutions conducting innovative research. However, it comes attached with
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Spurred by the vast potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, many countries are evaluating whether existing
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For many start-up companies, the prospect of filing a patent application can be daunting. Even when a company has
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Universities and certain colleges in the United States (US) spend billions of dollars on research and development (R&D) each
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Patent protection outside the U.S. can be important for a company to enter the global market and to build relationships
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Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing technology company Theranos, recently learned a harsh lesson on the complexities and
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A patent gives the patent holder the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing
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Owning a federal trademark registration provides the ability to exclude others from using a certain word or design in association
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Founders of emerging companies must decide early on in their company’s growth cycle whether to require employees to assign their
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Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the
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