The Madras High Court has directed the Patent Office to grant an inventor one opportunity to demonstrate the working of his invention, holding that a potentially viable invention should not ...

Holding that an invention should not be allowed to “go waste” without being tested in practice, the Madras High Court has directed the Patent Office to permit a ...

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It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

First Invention of the World: The story of human progress begins with invention—the creation of tools and technologies that transformed survival and daily life. The first known invention dates back to ...

The famed Wright brothers made history in December 1903 with their inaugural flight at Kitty Hawk. Just over six decades later, our understanding of flight advanced so far that Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Nolan Kosciukiewicz did what any teen might do when they learn their invention has been nationally recognized. He celebrated. “It was crazy. Right when I heard ‘Super Flipper,’ everyone went crazy. It ...

Donald Trump has had a fascination with words recently. First, it was groceries. On Monday, the president claimed he invented a “new word” while talking about his proposal to lower drug prices by 80%.

Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that ...

In this strange experimental feature from Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez, a grieving daughter investigates the mysterious gadget her father left behind. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ...

If you’ve ever nuked a Hot Pocket or used your microwave to warm up some leftovers, you have a comedy of errors to thank for the convenience. The invention of the all-too-common microwave came down to ...