December 5, 2022 - Agencies have broad discretion under their supervisory authority to request information from companies, including confidential information about secret inventions. This information ...

Entrepreneurs courageously leave the comfortable behind them to blaze new trails. Their businesses, often built upon new inventions and secret information, can be especially vulnerable if they don’t ...

One of the main advantages of hiring outside patent counsel is the ability to pass invention materials to a drafting attorney to prepare a patent application. This work transfer reduces the in-house ...

When ancient scribes invented the world”s first systems of writing by cutting symbols into stone and clay, they unleashed an anxiety the Facebook generation can relate to: worry about how the new ...

One of the biggest problems that inventors face when setting out to define their invention is with describing what the law refers to as “alternative embodiments of the invention.” Most inventors are ...

If necessity really is the mother of invention, the human race has proved as needy as a suckling infant. Sure, the definition of necessity has changed over time. The cavemen cleverly invented the ...

In today’s rapidly changing world, proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) matters more than ever. Yet, as important as STEM may be, business decision-makers, government ...

Mar. 16—BATESVILLE — Camp Invention®, a nationally recognized, nonprofit summer enrichment camp program, is coming to St. Louis School the week of June 10. A program of the National Inventors Hall of ...

Colleen Laurich recently was a junior high science teacher and is now a first-grade teacher. Cathy Neiheisel is technology director and a computer teacher at Divine Infant Jesus School in Westchester, ...

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The life of an inventor is not an easy one. First you have to come up with a good idea that solves a problem in a way that no one has thought of before, and then you need to design and engineer your ...