Drafting a patent application is not as easy as many think. Indeed, drafting a patent application is quite difficult. Once you have obtained years of patent experience it is easy enough to look at ...

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most important assets many technology companies will ever own. Patents are a key part of a company’s IP portfolio. Investors often view a company’s patent ...

Associate Tom Cowan presented "Patent Basics for the Aerospace Industry," at the Space Foundation Space Commerce Workshop at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. As the keynote speaker ...

Anyone who has had an idea has worried it’s going to be stolen from them. I remember exactly how fearful I felt when I had my big idea nearly 25 years ago. If you’re in the same boat now, breathe.

Filing a patent application is one of the most important steps an inventor can take. It protects your priority rights, signals credibility to investors, and can form the foundation of a business. But ...

The cost for a typical US patent, from start to finish, is between $10,000 and $40,000, and generally takes 2-7 years. Currently, the published average time from filing to grant is about 3 1/2 years.

Rainer Osterwalder from the European Patent Office explains what patents protect, when to file, and how the European process works.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Anyone who has had an idea has worried it’s going to be stolen from them. I remember exactly how fearful I felt when I had my big idea ...