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DeepSeek distillation allegations expose a new frontier in China IP theft. Learn how AI model distillation works, what OpenAI found, and how to protect your AI assets…
When Amazon sued Barnes & Noble in 2000 over its “1-Click” checkout patent, it secured a preliminary injunction that forced its competitor to add extra steps to its…
Amazon’s 1-Click patent (U.S. Patent 5,960,411) didn’t protect “online shopping.” It protected a specific server-side method for processing purchase orders using a single…
In a 2024 analysis of hundreds of startup outcomes, researchers found something striking: having any patents raised the probability of a successful exit by a measurable…
In 2024, a medical device startup celebrated what they believed was a breakthrough. After investing $12,000 in patent prosecution and months of back-and-forth with the…
Most inventors assume filing a provisional patent means keeping their invention completely secret. Then they discover their competitor somehow knew about their technology…
Most inventors lose their patent rights before they ever apply, and they don’t even realize it. A single tweet, one Product Hunt launch, or a demo day presentation can…
For information on cryptocurrency patent examples from top companies, see our recent article. Baidu holds approximately 15,600 AI patent families: more than any company…
Most patent holders make a critical error when commercializing their innovations: they assume that a granted patent automatically generates licensing interest from…
In 2018, a Waymo engineer walked out with thousands of confidential files containing critical self-driving car source code and took them to Uber. The theft cost Uber $245…
Between 40% and 48% of all U.S. provisional patent applications are abandoned without ever converting to a non-provisional filing. That’s roughly 70,000 provisional…
Bank of America’s AI patent portfolio exploded 94% between 2022 and 2024, reaching nearly 1,100 patents: more than any other financial services company. This isn’t…
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