Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, ...

Google filed a patent titled ‘Ranking Search Results’ over a decade ago, outlining the use of branded search queries as a factor for ranking search results. The patent was widely misunderstood by the ...

A med tech case decided by the PTAB is helpful to inform patent strategy for AI enabled inventions across various disciplines and industries. Patent applicants should expect to see reliance by the ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

A patent that Google filed in December 2024 called Thematic Search offers an idea of how AI Mode answers are generated and suggests new ways to think about content strategy. The patent also has some ...