LegalForce, an online marketplace where patents can be bought, sold or licensed, has launched. It is significant because it is a way for investors, entrepreneurs and investors to find ideas in an open ...

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. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The ...

U.S. technology vendors submitted five patent applications for last Friday’s launch of a Web site that allows the public to review proposals before patents are granted. Less than a week later, the ...

“It is quite likely that you, the reader, have infringed a patent today,” reads the first line of professor Janet Freilich’s recent article in the Virginia Law Review. The millions of patents active ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on brick and mortar businesses. Consumers, confined to their homes, have flocked to online markets, where products offered by patent owners often compete with ...