Month: October 2023

U.S. Patent Milestones

October 25, 2023

With intellectual property rights enshrined in the United States Constitution, the patent system is nearly as old as the nation itself. The U.S. government has granted millions of patents since Samuel Hopkins received the first patent in U.S. history on…

Bill McKenna quoted in, ‘It’s a societal challenge’: Why patent law has a diversity problem

October 11, 2023

There are plenty of numbers to plainly display the lack of diversity that exists in patent law across the United States. But one of the most telling facts isn’t a number at all. According to data collected through the American…