Enforcing a patent without any intent of manufacturing a product or providing a service based on that patent, or without using it to conduct research, or otherwise utilizing it for the greater good;
Not exact matches
Also, unlike copyrights and
patents, trademarks may be
enforced in the USA
without any registration.
D617, 334, and a day later, Apple and Samsung filed a stipulation for the dismissal
without prejudice (i.e., Apple could still
enforce this
patent against Samsung in another litigation) of this design
patent.
Basically, it's a pejorative term for practices such as
enforcing patents against purported infringers
without intent to manufacture the
patented product.
«A versatile
patent and trademark lawyer, he obtains IP rights, then manages,
enforces and commercialises them
without breaking a sweat.
As a result of online e-commerce marketplaces, such as Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, beginning to
enforce design
patent rights asserted by design
patent holders
without the benefit of any type of judicial or administrative review, allegedly infringing products are being taken down from the online marketplace
without formally engaging in design
patent claim construction.