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So even though Mazda is the only company to give us lots of real, working rotary production and racing cars, Felix Wankel's design never lived up to the expectations created in the 60s.
Entrepreneurs tend to have a lot of things that they want to patent, trademark, or copyright. The process can be exasperating and confusing, but it doesn't have to be.
Mazda’s plan involved increasing sales in its domestic market of Japan by a third. Currently, the brand sells around 150,000 models annually in Japan, but it wants to boost that number to ...
This hiring freeze lead to the USPTO retracting some 600 outstanding job offers to patent examiners earlier this year. Meanwhile, normal attrition in the patent examining corps. has continued.
GM has filed a patent application for a drone-assisted trailering system that could help users assess vehicle tow readiness and assist in trailering activities.
Nintendo has published three patents for ray-tracing, suggesting that they have worked with Nvidia on this technology for the Switch 2.
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday won a ruling from London's High Court in its attempt to get an interim licence to use ZTE's patents, in the English leg of the firms' global licensing dispute over ...
The National Academy of Inventors released its annual rankings of universities with the highest number of U.S. utility patents granted. For the 2024 calendar year, the University of Nebraska system ...
A patent dispute between Western Digital and SPEX Technologies, which started in 2016, revolves around claims that Western Digital infringed on SPEX’s data encryption patent (US6088802A).
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday sided with PNC Bank [RIC:RIC:PNCBKN.UL] and overturned a $218 million verdict won by financial services provider United Services Automobile Association in a patent ...
Big Reads Battle of the seven seaters: Hyundai Santa Fe vs Mazda CX-80 These days family buses come in all shapes and sizes. What if you’re after one that the kids won’t be embarrassed by?