New social networks continue to be created each day. But can you protect your new social network with a patent and prevent it from being...

There can be multiple inventors on a patent. But who owns the patent can be difficult to answer in the absence of an agreement.

Who is listed as an inventor on your patent can affect its validity. An incorrectly named inventor may make your patent invalid.

Whether you should get foreign patents is a business decision. How you obtain a foreign patent can be done in a couple of ways.

Patent infringement is determined by comparing the patented "claims" against the product that might be infringing.

One may have a product with a unique or unusual look. A question may arise as to whether the product may be protected by a design patent...

A distinction needs to be made between quickly obtaining an issued patent versus quickly filing a patent application. The kind of...