Sentences with phrase «if enforcing a patent»

If enforcing a patent is made more difficult or the property rights of a patent are diminished, raising startup capital would be become more difficult, if not impossible.

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A patent is less useful if you can't enforce it or have the money to see it through.

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As Anna Foley wrote in C&E, «The patent, which the company filed for in August 2011, could have major financial implications for Audience Partners and its rivals if the company is able to enforce it.»

Even if he had, it would not have mattered, since Switzerland did not enforce patents and would not recognize any chemical process as protectable intellectual property for another fifty years.

This bill offered absolutely no positive reform for inventors, simply because, if passed, it would have empowered big enterprise with more infringement bullying power, as small inventors would not be able to survive a legal battle to enforce their patent protection rights.

Professor Goldman disfavors state - by - state development of intellectual property because believes that if each state developed its own intellectual property doctrine, the costs to enforce patent rights would be more expensive due to researching the laws of each state.