“As natural problem solvers, engineers are always inventing, but they’re not always patenting. If you want to capture and protect those efforts and innovations, first convince them to care and then ...

Drugmaker Allergan announced Friday that it had transferred its patents on a best-selling eye drug to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in upstate New York — an unusual gambit to protect the drug from a ...

Businesses work hard to get patents, but they don’t always want to keep them. David Dutcher, chief intellectual property and licensing counsel at Western Digital in California, says his company ...

Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for $450 million, about two months after the deal was first ...

Most of us who work with intellectual property know that there are a large number of patents out there that will never have a relevant impact on any business. A couple of weeks ago one of these ...

The problem - that the patents were ALLOWED to be sold off. Nortel went bankrupt. That means they did not manage to profit from the patents they made. The whole point of a patent is to allow the ...