Sentences with phrase «acquire patents for»

Rival company Apple is also paying attention to facial recognition: Last week, the tech giant acquired a patent for a way to «detect faces using information in digital video feeds,» Bloomberg reports.

John Dick of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena and Erik Edwards of the Stanford Research Institute have acquired a patent for their Spring Walker, which increases foot force with a combination of springs and levers, without any added power.

His company, GrassRoots Biotechnology, has acquired the patent for UPB1, and plans to use it to further explore root development, with the goal of producing even more advanced biofuel crops.

The Essential has already acquired the patent for the pop - up camera it has not yet produced any such product and hence Vivo Apex is pre-empted.

Not exact matches

We acquired Motorola in 2012 to help supercharge the Android ecosystem by creating a stronger patent portfolio for Google and great smartphones for users.

Google will keep the «vast majority» of around 17,000 patents it acquired when it bought Motorola in 2012 for $ 12.5 billion.

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That's a derisive term for an entity that acquires patents solely for the purpose of suing others for infringement, much like the folkloric monsters that extracted tolls for the right to cross a bridge.

Facebook is buying a portion of patents from Microsoft for $ 550 million in cash — patents that Microsoft recently acquired from AOL.

Lenovo acquired Motorola in 2014 for almost $ 3 billion, primarily for its patent portfolio, notes WSJ.

The weighted - average amortization periods for acquired patents, acquired technology, and customer intangible assets are approximately thirteen years, four years, and six years, respectively.

The weighted average amortization periods for acquired patents, acquired technology, and customer intangible assets are approximately thirteen years, four years, and six years, respectively.

Since owner Bob Palka acquired the patent and started production 12 years ago, the company has produced more than 7,000 cardio - fitness exercise machines for customers in the United States and the international market.

During my time with the Parlee McLaws's practice group in intellectual property and innovation (TechCounsel team), I acquired invaluable working knowledge of patenting by assisting in the preparation, filing, and prosecution of patents, as well as the legal documentation and reporting required by companies and for the Alberta Securities Commission.

In response to a query from Science, Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, which Yamanaka directs, issued a statement that reads in part: «Our university filed the world's first patent application associated with iPS [cell] technology and is now trying to acquire patent rights in many countries, including the U.S..

When Google said it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.4 billion, it was applauded as a bold move to shore up its patent position.

On August 15th, Google announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion and Motorola's competitors all voiced support for the deal, suggesting the acquisition would help each company fight in patent battles against Apple and Microsoft.

On August 15th, Google announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion and Motorola's competitors all voiced support for the deal, suggesting the acquisition would help each company fight in patent >>

With the value of Palm being only 850 million dollars, it would be a bargaining for HTC to acquire palm and use their patents as leverage against Apple.

Now coming to the facts, all the above stems from a recent patent acquired by Apple for a device which they are calling «Application Programming Interfaces for Scrolling Operations,» a term for a device that can interchange from a device with a standard tablet form factor to a tablet with the screen scrolling along to get fixed above the keypad.

Although Dr. George enjoys all aspects of cardiology, he has particular interests in managing degenerative heart valve disease, cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases), arrhythmias, and performing minimally invasive treatment of congenital and acquired heart diseases including patent ductus arteriosus occlusion, balloon valvuloplasty of pulmonary valve stenosis, and pacemaker implantation for abnormally slow heart rhythms.

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell's Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell's patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification.

As Murray explains, the future success of Canada's cleantech industry requires further incentives to increase the amount of private investment capital being ventured into cleantech innovations, as well as an ability for innovators to access patent filing options and funding supports associated with acquiring their IP rights.

For example, after a recent pharmaceutical merger, the general counsel of the acquirer met with outside counsel to request a full risk assessment of the patent portfolio of the acquired company.

The defensive protection is less controversial, where advocates of traditional knowledge protection are trying to stop people from acquiring IP rights over traditional knowledge — for example, if a pharmaceutical company goes into an indigenous community, learns about the use of a certain plant for treatment of disease, does a little more research, and then patents the knowledge.

Google acquired Postini last September, and Google's Patent search has been available for some time now.

A patent troll might acquire a design patent and sue a company like Google or Facebook — or Apple — for 100 % of its profits.

There's no suggestion here that, by obtaining a patent for the composition, the patentee of the composition would acquire any right to use the old ingredient which it hadn't otherwise acquired in the ordinary way from the patentee of the ingredient.

Mike relies on this unique experience to acquire patent protection for clients in an efficient and cost - effective manner.

«It's fairly inexpensive for companies to acquire patents, at least in proportion to the potential windfall that results, because some courts around the country have become very friendly toward patent plaintiffs.»

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The company, which was recently acquired by LexisNexis, said on Dec. 3 that it has added a considerable amount of new data to its analytics platform, specifically focused on providing better information for those involved in matters with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Having acquired 59 patents for many digital image technology and light - fields, Google's VR technology is expected to be boosted.

They could sell the patents to «patent trolls» — firms that don't invent or make products but acquire patents and then sue or threaten to sue bigger tech companies for infringement.

This turns out looking like the sweetest deal for Microsoft, which retains licensing to all of the patents, including the ones it purchased outright, the ones that AOL is keeping and the ones that Facebook is acquiring.

And, at $ 4 billion, the price doesn't appear to be crazy, especially when considering that's less than the amount that Google rivals paid at auction for the patent portfolio of Nortel (which took place shortly before Google acquired Motorola).

Samsung is said to have acquired design patents for a new standalone audio device just as the company was looking to expand the applications of Bixby.

Samsung has acquired a couple of new patents for a rollable display device equipped with a fingerprint recognition sensor.

The search patents may not have much competitive value, he suggested, but they «might be useful as a foundational technology base for anyone acquiring a company interested in constructing a unique search capability.»

After acquiring Sun in January 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright and patent infringement in August 2010, arguing that Android can not use Java's APIs without permission.

«Troll» is a derogatory term for shell firms that don't make anything but acquire patents in order to sue companies that do.

That company was later acquired by QUALCOMM with the patents becoming the foundation for The Alliance For Wireless Power along with some intellectual property provided by alliance member Samsufor The Alliance For Wireless Power along with some intellectual property provided by alliance member SamsuFor Wireless Power along with some intellectual property provided by alliance member Samsung.

Google originally acquired Motorola less than three years ago for $ 12.4 billion as a way to shore up its mobile patent portfolio to protect against lawsuits from Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.

The two companies announced late on Monday that Microsoft will acquire Nokia's phone - making unit for about $ 7.2 billion in total — including patents — allowing the (now) former Finnish phone maker to expand its presence and technologies in other markets.

In an unexpected move, Google on Wednesday announced that it sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for close to $ 3 billion, although the Search giant will still keep some parts of Moto, including the patents it acquired to defend Android.

Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for $ 3.79 billion (plus $ 1.65 billion for patents).

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Data Distribution Technologies (DDT) is considered a non-practicing entity, or patent troll, because it does not invent or produce anything but instead acquires patent rights for the purposing of enforcing those patent rights on third parties.