I think patents probably work better in certain areas than they do in ours. Software patents?
It also provides for the grant of short-term patents.
These buy up patents and then license them or Sue for infringement, rather than using the patents themselves.
Eventually, they received a letter back saying that Ford was not infringing Kearns' patents and that, in any case, Kearns' patents were invalid.
In addition to Japan, Rising has also applied for patents in other countries.
Patents : On top of the general marketing, packaging and mailing that go along with any business, crafters should also focus on legal concerns such as obtaining patents and a seller's license.
A search for the keyword 'RFID' alone turns up tomes' worth of patents, conferences, products and articles.
Pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride, a key intermediate of the herbicide imazapyr, was synthesized from pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid and anhydride according to the methods in the patents.
Regarded as the "Leader and Expert of Air Conditioning", Carrier owns 15 R&D centers around the world with more than 800 patents and over 80 inventions in the air conditioning industry.
(2) for utility model and design applications or patents, the final decision on re-examination and invalidation would be made by the people's courts other than for inventions that were patented prior to the amendment (Articles 41 and 46);
Grean has applied for 4 software copyright and 14 patents, 9 of which are invention patents, 4 utility model patents, 1 design patent.
Too many patents are now issued, many of dubious merit - especially in the field of software patents.
Since this doesn't side-step patents, though, any issues relating to the test code that infringe on patents may still be a problem.
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The EFF has been challenging several patents as part of its patent Busting project. The purpose of the project is to invalidate bad patents that hurt the public and consumer interests.
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The major difference may be the Copyrights, patents, and trademarks in China are protected on a first-to-file basis, which means the IP registration is the precondition for their protection in China.
A scramble for patents had already begun.
As for utility model patents and design patents, the duration of protection is shorter, with only 5 years.
The too-many-patents crowd wanted to do away, in particular, with “business-method” patents, which claim to have invented a new way of doing business.
I think we can not just consider the possibility of infringing patents, and make decisions on bigger issues.
We developed two types of new retractable garage that remote controlled by solar. We've already got two national patents.
Credited with more than 40 patents, he resembles a modern Ben Franklin, who would study the Gulf Stream one day and the next fly his kite to catch the secrets of lightning bolts.
"OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents."
Patent trolls are those who file "paper patents" or "submarine patents" that they never intend to exploit, but merely use as tools to Sue unwitting infringers.
On the patent side, yes, the Chinese have increased the number of patents. But the quality of the patents is actually very low and most of them are actually filed for other reasons.
But there's a subtle point that's being missed in all the heat and noise: the impact of patents on the advancement of 3d-printing technologies is not monolithic.
And so we have hundreds of patents.
intangible property rights such as patents, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights, and literary property;
Those government agencies, they say, grant too many broad and absurd patents, opening businesses to legal bullying that stifles innovation.
He thinks in patents, and sometimes he dreams in patents.
They did this in what appears to be the mother of all patents.
In early 2010 HTC, a leading vendor of Android devices, agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for the use of its patents.
AST buys patents to protect its members from patent litigation, provides them with licenses to the technology, and then resells the patents on the open market.
Admittedly that figure tallies all of GM's research efforts, but if innovation is measured only in terms of patents, no wonder the Nano is not of much interest to Western executives.
Dolby Laboratories and its subsidiaries currently hold nearly 1800 patents. We have nearly 970 trademark registrations throughout the world.
He worked at Zenith for 47 years, earning 18 US patents.
(iii) costs of consultancy and equivalent services used exclusively for the research activity, including bought-in research, technical knowledge, patents, etc.;
He holds 39 patents and 19 honorary doctorates.
And in our history, we have about 50.000 global patents.
