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Beyond the Light Bulb Moment: Why Your Company Needs an Innovation Disclosure Process

Every company wants to innovate. We have all heard the stories about the engineer who stumbles onto something remarkable in the lab, or the sales team member who devises an ingenio...

Unnamed Inventor, Invalid Patent 

Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., 2026 WL 899158 (Fed. Cir. April 2, 2026) - The Constitution mandates that the U.S. patent system promote the progress of science and...

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The Inventor is still Human: Indian Patent Office’s DABUS Refusal

In keeping with a broad global trend, the Indian Patent Office has refused Dr. Stephen Thaler’s patent application which sought to recognise Dr. Thaler’s AI system DABUS as the inv...

Collaborators, Suppliers, and Coinventors: Key Lessons From Fortress Iron v. Digger Specialties

The Federal Circuit’s precedential decision in Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., No. 24-2313 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 2, 2026), reinforces that inventorship errors can still be...

Federal Circuit Emphasizes the Importance of Inventors in Fortress Iron, LP, v. Digger Specialties, Inc.

The Federal Circuit reaffirmed the importance of accurate inventorship and maintaining access to inventors after patenting in Fortress Iron, LP, v. Digger Specialties, Inc., findin...

How Disney Imagineering Has Increased Its Pace of Innovation by Thinking Like a Startup

To create Disney’s magical park experiences, Bruce Vaughn, head of Disney Imagineering, draws from his tech startup background.

Missing Coinventors and the Death of a Patent

Federal Circuit holds patents invalid when missing coinventor cannot be found for § 256 correction. A case of first impression with AI implications. Continue reading this post on P...

PHL innovators and inventors awarded at NICE 2026

The Department of Science and Technology – Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI) has awarded inventors and innovators during the National Invention Contest and...

Inventorship Errors Can Undermine Patent Value: Practical Steps to Reduce Risk

Get inventorship wrong, and a valuable patent can become unenforceable. A patent must accurately name the individuals who invented the claimed subject matter. If one or more invent...

How the Federal Circuit Is Rebuilding Inventorship Law After the AIA

The AIA repealed § 102(f) but inventorship invalidity endures. Tracing the defense from 1790 through Fortress Iron and AI. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

The Future of Innovation: Exploring Lillienu

The world of innovation is constantly evolving, bringing forth ideas and technologies that redefine how we live, work, and interact with the world around us. One such concept creat...

Unlikely paths to discovery

Sometimes innovation can be traced back to bizarre places: a muddy streambed, a volcanic ash field or even a hotel-company boardroom

The Innovation Gap Emerging Inside Corporate America

Innovinco’s Tom Pullen examines why economic uncertainty and the accelerating A.I. transition may create the ideal conditions for transformative innovation. Periods of constraint o...

The Precedent: Omitted Inventor Renders Patent Invalid when Section 256 Correction Is Not Available in Fortress Iron, LP...

In Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment that two Fortress patents were invalid because they omitted a coinventor who could n...