by Melissa Richter | Jun 9, 2026 | Hints and Tips, InnovationQ+, IP Suite
InnovationQ+ June 7 Release: More Precision for Litigation and Claims Research Litigation research moves fast, and the margin for missing a relevant case or claim is thin. The June 7 InnovationQ+ release adds new filtering and search tools built specifically for that...
by Brandon Kelloway | Jun 4, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, IP Intelligence, News
It’s 4:47 PM on a Friday in late June 2026. The six-month statutory deadline to respond to a final Office Action expires at midnight. The response is printed, signed, and sealed in a Priority Mail Express envelope. A paralegal records the mailing label number on...
by Brandon Kelloway | May 28, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, IP Intelligence, News
A modern smartphone is reportedly covered by as many as 250,000 active patents. A quarter of a million overlapping protections, touching everything from the antenna and battery chemistry to the way a finger swipes across a screen, sit between any new device and the...
by Brandon Kelloway | May 14, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, IP Intelligence, News
For decades, the question of whether an invention is obvious has turned on a deceptively simple hypothetical: would a person having ordinary skill in the art (a PHOSITA) have found this invention obvious, given what was known at the time? It’s a legal fiction, but a...
by Brandon Kelloway | Apr 30, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, IP Intelligence, News
April 1, 2026 wasn’t a great day for Agilent Technologies, and it might not be a great day for patent holders who aren’t paying attention. On that date, the Supreme Court declined to hear Agilent’s appeal in Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp.1, closing the...
by Brandon Kelloway | Apr 16, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, Export Test, IP Intelligence, IQ Ideas+, News
Imagine spending years developing a proprietary framework. Something genuinely novel. Something you believe in enough to protect. Then imagine a federal judge looking at your trade secret claim and saying, in plain terms: you gave it away yourself. Not to a...
by Melissa Richter | Apr 15, 2026 | Hints and Tips, InnovationQ+, IP Suite
A Closer Look at Synopsis AI When you are reviewing patents or technical literature, the biggest challenge is often not finding documents. It is finding the right insight inside them fast enough to keep work moving. That is where Synopsis AI comes in. Synopsis AI is...
by Brandon Kelloway | Apr 13, 2026 | Events, Export Test
Join IP.com at IPWatchdog LIVE 2026 from 3/22-3/24 IP.com is excited to be exhibiting at the 2026 FLC National Meeting, The Road to the Emerald City of Innovation. The FLC is the nationwide network of over 300 federal laboratories and research centers dedicated to...
by Brandon Kelloway | Apr 13, 2026 | Ideation, Evaluation, & Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, IP Intelligence, IQ Ideas+, News
They said AI would change everything. They just didn’t say the bad guys would get there first. For every breakthrough that AI delivers to the people building it — faster research, smarter models, better tools — there’s a threat actor somewhere studying...
