Fearn charges $2,500 for a provisional patent filing and $9,000 for a non-provisional, with its drafting fee at risk if the patent office allows no claims at all, a condition that any single allowed claim clears. Its launch customers talk about turnaround.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives88
- Confidence60
A Science analysis of Chinese patent and publication data from 2010 to 2022 finds firms on the US Entity List engaging the published literature harder than comparable unlisted rivals. Kenneth Huang says the design cannot prove that listing caused it.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives35
- Confidence58
Chief Judge Colm Connolly treated the words "formerly known as Twitter" in X's app listing as live use of the brand, while Musk's 2023 posts about blow torches and all the birds cost the company the tweet mark and the bird logo.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
Only people can be inventors under US law, so the file on an AI-derived molecule has to show human contribution. Teams that do not document it are building patents someone can challenge.
Reality
- Evidence56
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives66
- Confidence58
The rebranded NLPatent says a cited analysis arrives in about 10 minutes instead of days. The work being compressed is the work firms already delegated down or sent out.
Reality
- Evidence21
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+41
- Incentives79
- Confidence31