Sentences with phrase «pto granted»
Just because the PTO grants a patent does not necessarily mean that any invention claimed in the patent is, in fact, legally entitled to the protection of a patent.
http://www.the-business-of-patents.com/ Not exact matches
Because a patent grants the inventor a monopoly on his or her invention for relatively long period of time (between 14 and 20 years depending upon the invention), patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
But he granted him permission to officiate (PTO) on his retirement in 1998 after it was cleared by Bishop Eric Waldram Kemp who said he had been «treated badly by the police», Bishop Benn said.
Yet in a letter read to the inquiry he told Cotton he would be «happy» to grant the PTO.
Facing similar questions over the other convicted priests, the inquiry heard Bishop Benn's assistant granted Pritchard a PTO in 2007 after he was arrested in November the previous year.
SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.
For several years, Collins and former National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus have tried to persuade PTO leaders they should not grant patents on simple gene discoveries.
Don't get me wrong, I loved every second of it, but it made me realize how much time we volunteer... and unfortunately how easily the PTO and room moms can be taken for granted.
Sometimes the grants committee makes the final decision; sometimes they make a recommendation to the PTO board or the general membership for a vote.
Tracy Donaldson, teacher grant coordinator for the East Helena (Mont.) Schools PTO, puts it this way: «Our main goal is to allow teachers to do their jobs by telling us what they don't have [but need] to do it well.»
A grant program «is a group process,» says Jill Andersen, PTO copresident at Blue Valley.
From technology to music enrichment, an effective PTO - run teacher grant program can help increase a school's offerings and close budget gaps.
You might be wondering whether your PTO or PTA should limit perks like grants or classroom supply funds to teachers who are active in your group.
According to Robert Budens, president of the trade union for the PTO's 6,300 examiners, there is a «culture of fear» among examiners that they'll be penalized or lose a bonus if they grant patents that are eventually rescinded.
In many cases it will be difficult for accused infringers to carry their burden of proving that the PTO would have refused to grant a claim had it known of the additional information.
Litigation partner Steven Baughman and counsel Megan Raymond will speak at the American Conference Institute's 3rd Annual Post Grant PTO Proceedings Conference.
In a friend - of - the - court brief on behalf of the PTO, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote, «EFF believes that patents should only be granted for technological processes.
Ensuring that the PTO's power to review the validity of issued patents can be employed effectively in the areas in which improper patent grants are believed to have been most frequent — the technology and business method areas.
Known as the transitional program for covered business method patents, or Section 18, this provision allows anyone threatened with infringement suits over certain types of patents to petition the PTO to review the patent's grant and scope.
This was the sixth reexamination request filed by EFF's Patent Busting Project and the sixth time the PTO has granted EFF's request.
Four of our five petitions for reexamination have been granted, and EFF expects the last will be after the PTO has had an opportunity to review it (it was filed last week).
The PTO recently granted EFF's fifth patent reexamination request.
Members of the Netrek online gaming community also provided technical analysis and legal declarations that figured prominently in the PTO's decision to grant EFF's reexamination request.
Essentially, it gives the PTO a second chance, allowing it to reconsider its own past mistakes in granting patents for ordinary, unremarkable technologies, such as those covering basic, well - known processes like sending an email alert when a new real estate listing is posted or the price changed.