August is National Inventor’s Month! Hey! Engineers, scientists, thinkers, questioners, dreamers… yes, you… Look up from your notebooks, circuit boards, and computer monitors, blink into the light and see that …
Turn a Prior Art Search Into a Powerful Report
Conducting a patent and prior art search is just the beginning, right? It’s what you do with the search results that counts. InnovationQ Plus includes tools that help you monitor …
Top Innovations to Protect Our Smart Devices from Ourselves
When opening an app on my smartphone, my thumb runs over the cracks in the screen, reminding me of how I accidentally managed to fling my phone about four feet, …
Quick Tips for Reviewing & Refining Your Prior Art Search
Conducting a patent or prior art search is a process. After your initial query, you typically need to modify your search parameters to fine tune your result set. Here’s how …
$105+ Million Awarded Including Lost Foreign Profits
The U.S. Supreme Court awarded lost foreign profits for U.S. Patent infringement. In a landmark case regarding patent damages, the Supreme Court has endorsed including lost foreign profits in damages …
How to Develop a Query: Patent & Prior Art Search Tips
Quick tips for constructing queries in IP.com’s patent search software, InnovationQ and InnovationQ Plus Get great patent and prior art search results without a great effort. Here is what you …
The Sparkling Invention & IP Story Behind Fireworks
Fireworks are as American as the National Anthem, baseball and apple pie, right? Think about the lyrics “rocket’s red glare” and “bombs bursting in air.” Think about our traditional ear-blasting, …
Intelligent Machines Deserve Our Respect
The definition of “intelligent machines” makes them sound downright boring: “a machine that uses sensors to monitor the environment and thereby adjust its actions to accomplish specific tasks in the …
IP.com Discusses AI at IPBC
June 10-12, 2018, San Francisco, CA: Representatives from IP.com attended Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine’s Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) conference to exhibit our InnovationQ Plus™ software. We partnered with …
Bringing Back Reality: An IP Perspective
In our rush to automate everything to make our lives easier and more efficient, are we actually leaving life behind? Are we losing our appreciation for an original experience in …