In environmental planning problems, decision makers' goals often fundamentally conflict. Faced with limited budgets, planners realize that increasing their systems' performance could cause increased ...

In the US, obviousness is governed by 35 USC §103 and the practice has developed as a function of Case Law. This article – which is a follow-up to The quest for patent quality: European inventive step ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m already getting pushback against my free ...