The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) may reject a patent application on several different grounds. One of those grounds is obviousness. Under 35 U.S.C. § 103, if an invention is obvious to a person ...

The purpose of the following guidelines is to state the minimum and not the maximum standards of educational fair use under Section 107 of H.R. 2223. The parties agree that the conditions determining ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 15, 2019 in New York City. As trade talks with China show some progress, the Dow Jones ...

Well before there were legal rules—like patent and copyright—that seek to spark creativity, there was the human urge to create. The famed cave paintings in Lascaux, France, are at least 15,000 years ...

It’s happened to all of us. You come up with an idea that’s so brilliant, if not genuinely groundbreaking, that you can’t help but tell your work bestie. And it’s entirely possible that they then tell ...

It probably goes back to elementary school, when you were told "keep your eyes on your own paper." The message was hammered home in ninth grade when your English teacher would flunk you for plagerism.