Hello all, We now receive at least five inquiries a day from a new species of patent owner. Call them the overnight inventors. Somebody had an idea in the shower, typed it into their favorite AI engine, and watched the machine expand it, fill in the blanks, propose a...

Hello all, Joining the LOT Network is one of those decisions a startup board makes in about four minutes, mostly because it costs nothing. Very few boards spend a fifth minute on what it does to the patents. With LOT now claiming close to a quarter of active U.S....

Hello all, For those of you just back from three weeks somewhere with better weather and worse wifi, last month's column — Follow The Current — is a good prelude to this one and it will cost you five minutes. The short version: when the Patent Office made it nearly...