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Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: Industrial and manufacturing category winners

Six companies stood out to Fast Company judges in the industrial and manufacturing category of Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026.  Fictiv, Oakland, CA Marvin, Warroad...

The Missing Inventor Problem

Fortress Iron seeks Supreme Court review after losing two patents over a coinventor who could not be found. An 1868 case went the other way. Continue reading this post on Patently-...

Cross-Cultural Innovation is the Hallmark: Artist Designer In Residency 2026

Design innovation is a process that guides creatives in developing unique, functional products that deliver value to customers in new and novel ways. It takes an idea from inceptio...

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: Emerging enterprise category winners

When it comes to fostering cultures of innovation, these 13 companies outpaced other enterprises with 201 to 999 employees to earn Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 recognition....

Beyond the Trend Cycle: Turning Creativity Into Commercial Value

Ivo Stivoric is the 2026 Innovative Leader of the Year

In keeping with a tradition among leaders at X, the Moonshot Factory, Ivo Stivoric has a quirky title: Lt. Trouble + Maker. Since joining more than a dozen years ago, Stivoric has...

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: International category winners

Nine companies outside of North America most impressed Fast Company judges for their investment in human capital and internal innovation infrastructure, and seven of them also land...

Ending Self-Collision in Continuation-In-Part Patent Applications

Imagine building most of a great machine, and then filing a patent application on that machine because you want a return on the effort you spent building it. Years later, imagine f...

Zero-Waste Innovation

Zero-Waste Innovation is the principle that no learning, discovery, failure, or unused asset should be treated as an endpoint; each should remain in circulation as an input for fut...

How One Company Used Disciplined Chaos to Drive Innovation

<p>Six principles employed by Moroccan fertilizer company OCP to empower employees, test ideas, and build ventures within clear strategic guardrails.</p>

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A book about designing the conditions for collective genius

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: North America category winners

From tiny Not Impossible Labs to the iconic toy maker Radio Flyer, a whopping 22 companies impressed Fast Company judges to take top honors in the robust North America category of...

Want to Pick Better Ideas? A Scientist and Circus Director Have the Answers to Innovation  

A study of creators and managers reveals why expert gatekeepers miss original ideas and how innovation teams can make more objective choices at work.

Preexamination III: Conception, Inventorship, and the Limits of Landscape

Invention requires conception U.S. inventorship requires invention and invention requires conception. The USPTO’s revised inventorship guidance states the governing standard in the...

Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026: Advertising, marketing, and PR category winners

These eight companies stood out to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 judges for enabling employees to innovate with new technologies and effective processes. The i...

The World Is Invited: Edison Awards Opens Nominations for Its 40th Anniversary Year

A Global Icon of Innovation Marks Four Decades — And Calls On Innovators Everywhere to Step Forward FORT MYERS, Fla., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Forty years ago, a handful...

Universal looks to improve show, via new patent applications

By Robert Niles: We have three new patent applications from Universal this week, including proposals for more realistic show animations, more responsive interactive gameplay, and e...

Stevanato Group: Alina Validates The Container-To-Device Flywheel

All About Design Thinking and Innovation | Simplilearn

Innovation is one of the key parts of design thinking that participates strongly in its success. Design thinking is an iterative process that leads to perfection by focusing on the...

In-House Innovation Report: Corporate Teams Gain ROI and Leverage

Report In-House Innovation Report: Corporate Teams Gain ROI and Leverage In-House Innovation Report: Corporate Teams Gain ROI...

Jepson and Other Point-of-Novelty Claims in U.S. Patents, 1976–2026

Point-of-novelty claims are rare: Jepson claims appear in 0.03% of U.S. patents, and the European two-part form in well under 1%. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Useful Inventions, That Haven't Been Made Yet

SuePJ: “a place for everything and everything in its place” It works though - if successful! A cardinal rule always to be remembered.

Correcting the Uncorrectable: AI-Assisted Inventorship and Section 256

Under 35 U.S.C. Section 256, one can only correct an inventorship error when the underlying facts and the affected parties can actually be identified, and when the statutory correc...

Useful Inventions, That Haven't Been Made Yet

Franglais: “Flollop” (English) word of the week for me! ‘Flollop’ is a word invented by the English writer Douglas Adams in his novel Life, the Universe and Everything so I’m to...