Patents
Starting a Business
How to Search for Existing Patents
Before you spend a lot of time an energy creating the next big thing, use a patent search to make sure it hasn't already been done.
Project Grow
Cat Fight! How These Inventors Beat the Counterfeiters That Nearly Destroyed Their Company.
When a company copied their invention, Natasha and Fred Ruckel began investigating -- and got an inside look into how products are ripped off.
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Legacy companies that have neglected to innovate often instead compete by filing costly IP lawsuits potential competitors struggle to afford.
Amazon
Amazon Delivery Drones May Scan Your Home and Suggest Repairs
A new patent describes how Amazon's drones will scan your home while delivering packages to see if anything needs fixing.
Amazon
Amazon Patents Tech to Block In-Store Comparison Shopping
If you visit an Amazon Store, don't expect to be able to compare prices using your smartphone. Amazon's patent describes blocking such checks and sending a sales rep over to see you.
copycats
What Should You Do About Copycat Competitors?
When someone's just replicated your product, what you should do first is get on the phone and show 'em whom they're messing with.
Patents
How Small-Business Owners Can Patent a Great Idea
Instead of letting another party run away with your great ideas and make a fortune, you need to protect your ideas from the get-go.
Amazon
Amazon Awarded Patent for Parachute Shipping Label
It's a shipping label with a built-in parachute enabling packages to be dropped from a drone in flight.
Nokia
Nokia and Apple Are Exploring Health Tech Partnership Following Their Patent Fight
The companies have ended their patent fight and said they're planning to explore 'future collaboration in digital health initiatives.'
Partnerships
5 Lessons About Partnership Learned Watching the Uber-Waymo Meltdown
Shared vision brings partners together. No longer seeing things the same way drives them apart.
Apple
Apple Patent Describes Dumb Laptop Powered by iPhone
Could the future of the MacBook be as an accessory device requiring an iPhone or iPad to function?
