Patents
News and Articles About Patents
copycats
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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
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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
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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?
Patents
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3 Approaches to Get Your Patent Application Moving Much Faster
Got a great idea? Expediting it through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may cut the chances that it will be copied or stolen.
Patents
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The Craziest Patents by Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google and More
From Apple's paper bag to IBM's Out of Office email system -- these companies go to great lengths to protect their ideas.
Patents
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Dyson Files Patent for a 'High-Velocity' Hairbrush
Check out the plans for this high-tech beauty product.
Patents
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An Entrepreneur's Guide to Inventing
How to pick the right patent for your potential product.
Innovation
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3 Ways Startups Can Promote Innovation in the Trump Era
The president-elect's promise to eliminate 70 percent of federal regulations? From an innovation standpoint, this couldn't be more uplifting news for the country.
Apple
Nokia Sues Apple for Allegedly Violating 32 Technology Patents
The legal action by Nokia and Apple appear to mark a revival of the "smartphone patent wars" that began five years ago.
Samsung
Apple Loses to Samsung in Supreme Court Smartphone Fight
Design patent cases very rarely reach the Supreme Court. It had not heard such a case in more than 120 years.
Patents
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Inventors: Do a Patent Search Sooner Rather Than Later
What you find may dash your feelings of originality, but it can also be a roadmap for how to see your idea come onto the market.
