Thought leadership.

How Turntide Technologies Makes Motors More Efficient. A patent application filed in 2015 describes the basic concept.

Archeologists may have discovered the location of the world’s oldest brewery, in Abydos, Egypt. What can we learn about our ancestor’s invention?

In the third installment, John discusses two major types of creativity: divergent and convergent. Divergent creativity is the process of creating a variety of many new ideas. Convergent creativity is the process of narrowing down the list to a few valuable ideas.

In the wake of the Boeing 777 engine failure, we explore several ways we can use the power of invention and intellectual property to make our skies safer than ever.

IBM recently hit 50% abandonment rate of their patent portfolio. That adds up to approximately $81 Million in savings.

Understanding some of the many unsolved problems in cosmetics can point to areas of rich innovation opportunities. There are many new business models, service offerings, product offerings, with associated devices and software systems that can result from further innovation in this arena.

We will be covering such topics as personal assessment of creativity, how you might look at yourself, how the world looks at creativity – that is the views of creativity, and the question about level of creativity versus the style of use of creativity.

Unfortunately, last week an outdated Windows 7 computer and what appears to have been a weak cybersecurity network allowed hackers to access Florida wastewater treatment plants. There certainly must be technology solutions to the problems faced by utility providers.

Join us on Wednesday, March 10th at 2 pm eastern for our fifth installment of the “AI in IP” webinar series. As the volume and complexity of patents increases, manual review becomes much more challenging. Key benefits of introducing AI into the prior art search process will be discussed, as well as what the future may hold in this area as AI continues to evolve.

An important trend in the health and beauty space is the marketing of products that promote beauty at the level of individual cells, claiming to regulate cellular activity to give positive results in appearance or health.

By now, we have all seen the dancing robots by Boston Dynamics. Now acting robots, such as Erica, are on the rise. This trend is undoubtedly going to continue and is likely to create new genres at the intersection of media and technology. At first glance, there are about fifty “dance robot” patents and applications …

While some banks may need invention to prevent banking errors, other banks need to solve a different problem: patent infringement. Barclays Bank, TD Bank, and others have joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) to resist litigation threats from patent trolls. For many years, OIN has provided a way to reduce the threat of license and …