The expiration, August 14, of two of what have heretofore been considered the "controlling " patents of the McKay Sewing ...

I’ve been litigating patent cases involving slot machines for the past decade, and there are still a lot of misconceptions about what aspects of a gaming machine can be patented and why these patents ...

In the late 1950s, an ambitious young inventor named Walter G. Moehlenpah came to the firm where I work to patent a device that made roof trusses by hydraulically pressing nailing plates into wood.

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate that explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and ...

The Sewing Machine Combination was the commercial trust that was responsible for the mass production of the sewing machine in the nineteenth century—a commodity that was fundamental to the success of ...

Accenture Plc has just been awarded a patent relating to quantum computing that underscores the idea that the next-generation of computers will likely have to live alongside their classical cousins ...

Starbucks filed a fresh patent for a machine that enables workers to make customized drinks quicker. Modifications drive customers to Starbucks and bring in high profits, but cause headaches for staff ...

Trade secrecy may provide many businesses with a more predictable way to protect their innovative applications of machine learning. Both the Defend Trade Secrets Act and its state-law analogues ...