Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When it comes to protecting a company's technical innovations and ideas, there are two main options: patents and trade ...

Strong legal protection for secret recipes and other innovations can spur companies to deploy discoveries and even share ...

The invocation of a "prior user right" addresses the circumstances in which two parties independently invent the same invention. The first inventor may protect the invention as a trade secret while ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the remarkable ability to develop novel solutions to problems, and patent law has historically protected those solutions. Under current statutes and ...