There’s a battle brewing over patents for “Covfefe” and Amazon looks to block online price checking in the latest patent news.

On Thursday, June 12, IPVision co-founder and president Joseph Hadzima will address the 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winners for innovation. The winners were announced in April of this year and include some of the brightest minds in various fields of study and invention.

In a move that combines Back to the Future-style wearable tech and the faux-kindness of Mean Girls, Microsoft plans to bring us glasses that tell us all about the nutrition stats in the food we’re planning to eat.

Ford is obviously on an innovation kick, as their record number of patents in 2016 will show. In fact, their total of 1,442 puts them well ahead of any other automaker filing for US patents in 2016. The 25% increase in patent filings over 2015 give a clear indication that the car company is trying to move forward, but are all the patents they’ve filed for or received really helpful?

Cambridge-based MIT has become nearly synonymous with innovation, and for good reason. This year, for the fourth year in a row, Massachusetts Institute of Technology was once again the number-two university in the list of top 100 worldwide universities granted US patents in 2016.

Google. Canon. IBM. Apple. Amazon. Samsung.

Facebook was recently granted a patent that aims to predict users’ emotions through their typing speed on mobile devices. The first goal is to adapt messages in response, but we suspect the end goal is the same as many other tech companies are striving for: data.

Technology has changed everything, including how people manage their own health. With the rise of wearable tech, artificial intelligence, and telemedicine, the answers they need are available on any device they happen to be carrying. Apps, websites, and AI assistants have changed the healthcare landscape.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of the latest craze in the world of toys—the fidget spinner, a gadget that looks like a tiny ceiling fan and reportedly alleviates feelings of anxiety or restlessness in its users.

Patent information can assist in critical business decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, that drive your corporate strategy. To obtain this information, you must perform diligent patent analysis, which can then provide the data you need to make your decisions.