Many businesses, when looking to protect their innovation, often consider patent protection by default. However, this approach shortchanges other available and protectable intellectual property (IP) ...

A broad coalition of accounting, financial planning and consumer groups are hoping that the new Congress will take up a long-sought-after ban on the practice of patenting tax strategies. Tax patents ...

Resources are limited, and getting the most value out of patent protection means using a patent budget efficiently. One way to achieve this is by employing the 80/20 rule—80% of revenue may be ...

A sound patent strategy, and effective execution of such a strategy, are essential ingredients for a technology company’s road to success. While many, if not most, enterprises have instituted or are ...

Determining where to seek patent rights is an important and expensive decision. For better or for worse, there is no such thing as a worldwide patent. Notwithstanding, there are global filing ...

Senate's near-unanimous passage of law prohibiting such patents hailed as 'big step forward for taxpayers'; on to the House By Mark Schoeff Jr. Now that the Senate has approved a ban on patents for ...

Tax practitioners looking to Congress, the Treasury or the Patent Office for a solution to the perceived problem of tax strategy patents may instead have found some assistance from an expected source ...

Recently, I saw a note from a university congratulating its technology researchers who got patents. But will these patents ever be commercially used or was the money spent a waste? Can some of these ...