The race to protect intellectual property in multiple jurisdictions has become a defining feature of the global innovation economy. For inventors, startups, and ...

The process of filing a patent application is lengthy and complicated, but it's an essential step in protecting your intellectual property rights to your invention and the profits you might earn from ...

For more than 100 years, General Motors has found creative ways to get increasing numbers of people behind the wheel of its ...

Just a few months after publishing an ambitious drone delivery patent that would combine delivery vans with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Ford Motor Co. may have upped its own ante. As company ...

Loyal sleuths on the Rivian forums have pointed out the American EV automaker’s latest patent filing for a “modular kitchen mounting apparatus.” Could this be the next iteration of Rivian’s defunct ...

Subaru and jet turbines? The keiretsu doesn't build turbines itself, but it has plenty of experience with them through its ...

A software company and its parent are claiming they hold patent rights to widely used Internet song-swapping technology, and they are demanding that several file-sharing networks obtain licenses in ...

A newly published Apple patent application details a technology for projecting from phones, tablets, and computers, then blending together those images into one big display. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET ...

Electric vehicles don't need gear shifts like traditional automobiles. A patent published by Ford shows the automaker could consider having a device that mimics shifting in EVs. See the trading ...