VENTURA, Calif. — Bob Noe's idea for a better mousetrap is called the Rat Zapper. Sold under the slogan "The Power Tool for Rodent Control," it is a blue plastic box about the size of a milk carton ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." But a California company says that when it achieved that goal and won a patent for a device ...

Ending a nearly four-year battle over unpaid legal fees, Drinker Biddle won a $1.78 million award in a Pennsylvania state court. According to the ABA Journal, it started in 2006 when Agri-Zap Inc. had ...