Building a Business
5 Steps for Turning Your Invention Idea Into a Product
Got a great idea for an invention but not sure what to do with it? Follow these steps to turn your idea into a marketable product.
By Sarah Pierce
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Business Legal
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.
Business News
Do Amazon’s Movement-Tracking Wristbands Violate Workers’ Privacy Rights?
A look at the legal precedents shows Amazon could get into trouble with its newly patented devices.
By Dariush Adli
Tech
More Patent Trolls Are Targeting Startups. Here’s What You Can Do.
As an entrepreneur, you could be a potential target for patent trolls. But there is something you can do about it.
Business Legal
5 Under-the-Radar Legal Developments Entrepreneurs Need to Know
The rewriting of the federal tax code was from the only change relevant to entrepreneurs.
By Jaia Thomas
Building a Business
5 Things an IP Attorney Will Make You Do Before You Launch a Crowdfunding Campaign
Evaluating patent risk is serious business -- and the single most important reason for retaining an experienced patent attorney.
Building a Business
Using Your Intellectual Property to Escape the 9-to-5
Here's how to make sure your idea isn't stolen, corrupted or plagiarized by every Tom, Dick and Sally.
By Carel Smit
Building a Business
If Your Startup Really Is Disruptive, Expect to be Sued By a Patent Troll.
Legacy companies that have neglected to innovate often instead compete by filing costly IP lawsuits potential competitors struggle to afford.
By Tim Molino
Business News
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.
Business News
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.
Thought Leaders
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.
Business News
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.
By John Rampton
Business News
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.
Business News
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.'
Business News
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.
Business News
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?
Building a Business
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.
Business News
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.
By Rose Leadem
Tech
Dyson Files Patent for a ‘High-Velocity’ Hairbrush
Check out the plans for this high-tech beauty product.
By Rose Leadem
Business Ideas
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.
Building a Business
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.
By Reuters
Business News
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.
By Reuters
Thought Leaders
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.
By Stephen Key
Business News
Samsung v. Apple Holds Major Consequences for Design Patent Owners
The $399 million judgment Samsung owes Apple is the least consequential matter the Supreme Court will decide when it rules on the case.
Building a Business
3 Ways to Create Successful Proprietary Tech
Proprietary, non-replicated technology can help companies establish and sharpen their competitive edges.
Business News
Apple Files a Patent for a Paper Bag
This magical bag has a 'white solid bleached sulfate paper with at least 60 percent post-consumer content.'