Imagine what life would be like without your phone, the internet, or even something as simple as electricity. It’s hard to picture, right? We enjoy the comforts and conveniences of today thanks to the ...

There are many black inventors that have successfully had an impact on our lives and which you may not have known about! Here are just a few of the many successful black inventors and their incredible ...

Larissa Behrendt receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Ian J. McNiven receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sean Ulm receives funding from the Australian Research ...

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

The National Inventors Hall of Fame lineup is full of familiar faces: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers and Eli Whitney, along with many other mostly White men. Joining them in ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE – Young inventors from Eastern Hancock High School earned a $10,000 prize in a national competition event this month. But what exactly they invented in their first-place finish is hush ...

In a guest post to the Managing IP blog, Michele C Bosch and Anthony J Lombardi of Finnegan in Washington DC and Reston VA respectively explain why a constitutional challenge to the recently enacted ...

TAMPA (CN) - An inventor claims in court that the America Invents Act of 2011 violates inventors' rights, by replacing the "first to invent" patent system with a deficient "first to file" rule. Mark ...

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...