Sentences with phrase «by a patent first»

In fact, any new discoveries had to be protected by a patent first before any public presentation of the data.

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Further evidence of the decline can be seen in the decreasing rates of first - time patents since the 1980s, as well as increases in demand for professional licensing, which could further restrict new business opportunities by requiring expensive (and often unnecessary) credentials.

Brasch's claim is bolstered by other Google initiatives, including the launch of a powerful new search tool for uncovering so - called «prior art» references that can help attack bad patents, and prevent them from being issued in the first place.

You have up to one year from when your invention is first made public (by being put on sale, or announced) in which to patent it.

By using the Invent + Patent System ™ you essentially pay the patent attorney for adding value rather than figuring out what your invention is in the first Patent System ™ you essentially pay the patent attorney for adding value rather than figuring out what your invention is in the first patent attorney for adding value rather than figuring out what your invention is in the first place.

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«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

First, patents are often taken out to use as legal weapons by huge companies to fight off their competitors even if they do not plan on completing trials for the drug.

As the world's first patent - pending water replication system, the New York WaterMaker will enable restaurants to elevate their food and beverage taste and quality by allowing chefs to cook with NYC water anywhere in the world.

For example, perhaps your chocolate chip cookies can be frozen and baked without thawing first, like the dough recipe covered by U.S. Patent No. 5,560,946 for «Ready - to - Bake Doughs.»

Hass patented the resulting tree in 1935 — the first U.S. patent on a tree — and made a contract with Whittier nurseryman Harold Brokaw to grow and distribute the trees produced by the seeds of the «mother tree.»

Additionally, users can deliver an oil - free, stomach friendly brew profile with a French press for the first time, simply by adding the optional patented paper filtration system

Kaepernick mocked Cam Newton by first doing the patented «Superman celebration» and then followed it up by Kaepernicking.

The first disposable diaper was invented and patented in 1948 [15] by Valerie Hunter Gordon (née de Ferranti), [16] granddaughter of inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti.

Pablum, first produced in 1915 by Mead Johnson, was the one of the first patent infant foods to be manufactured in the United States.

While we were together I patented his first daughter and did everything for our infant and if I asked him to help he would say no cuz he did his job by earning more than I do.

The policy — in the form of first Office Actions on a series of applications for patents on expressed sequence tags, ESTs — could greatly complicate basic gene therapy research by substantially allowing patents for small sequences of a gene that may later be used by the patent holder to corner ownership and uses of entire genes.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

The Hopkinson bar was first suggested in 1914 by Bertram Hopkinson, a British patent lawyer and Cambridge University professor of mechanism and applied mechanics, as a way to measure the pressure produced by explosives.

«If there's an invention made by MRC scientists using data from HGS, we are free to file a patent ourselves, but SmithKline has the first chance to negotiate a deal for exploiting the invention,» says Owen.

However, a research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created the first high - performance, two - way oxide catalyst and filed a patent application for the invention.

One of the first motorized vacuum cleaners, patented by English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth in 1901, was nicknamed «Puffing Billy» after a famous steam locomotive.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the company its first patent in 1997; by 2000 the patent office had awarded it eight more, in effect giving Myriad ownership of the Patent and Trademark Office awarded the company its first patent in 1997; by 2000 the patent office had awarded it eight more, in effect giving Myriad ownership of the patent in 1997; by 2000 the patent office had awarded it eight more, in effect giving Myriad ownership of the patent office had awarded it eight more, in effect giving Myriad ownership of the genes.

Beyond first - to - file, the AIA also responds to concerns about the quality of issued patents by providing cost - effective, fast ways to comment on pending patents and to challenge issued ones.

Doudna, Charpentier, and collaborators — who collectively are represented by UC — first filed a patent application in May 2012, whereas the Broad group did not file a patent claim until that December.

Students, already demoralized by scarce funding and no jobs, fret over whether basic research (of the sort that produced CRISPR in the first place) will be as esteemed as «patentable» work — and if their names will even be included on the patent.

The first recorded typewriter patent was filed in 1714 by the British engineer Henry Mill, for an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, as in writing... so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print.

Scientists at the Bar Harbor - based MDI Biological Laboratory have been awarded a patent — the first for the lab — for MSI - 1436, a potential new heart disease drug that stimulates the repair and regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries and heart attacks.

The first interference proceeding was initiated by Geron Corporation (original owner of the Asterias stem cell patents at issue) in late 2009, and a subsequent interference proceeding was declared by the USPTO in late 2011 in view of a Geron application and the same ViaCyte patent.

But ideas were already changing: by 1883 there were twenty - seven patented brands of powdered infant formula which were added to cow's milk, including the first marketed formula of the putative genius Justus von Liebig in 1869.

Glyphosate is very unique and was first patented as a chelator by Stauffer Chemical Co. in 1964, because it could bind with any positively charged ion.

This pair Faithful Half Boot inspired by Nicolas Ghesquiere's first fashion show for Louis Vuitton, this half boot in plain and patent calf leather is embellished with a distinctive crisscrossing strap around the ankle.

When I first wrote about patent leather months ago I honestly thought it'd be a bigger trend by now than what it is.

Based on a patent pending online dating system, the website is revolutionizing dating by taking the concept of first date auctions held at charity events and turning the concept into a viable online dating model.

SeekingArrangement.com is founded by Brandon Wade, an online dating expert, author and entrepreneur who also started SeekingMillionaire.com - the leading millionaire matchmaker online service, WhatsYourPrice.com - the first and only, patent pending online dating website where singles can buy and sell first dates, and MissTravel.com - the first travel dating website where attractive people travel free.

Ford Prefect (Mos Def) is black, and decidedly odder than the original; Zaphod Beeblebrox now conceals his second head beneath the first, and is played with hyperkinetic gusto by Sam Rockwell as a President of the Universe whose patent idiocy recalls one or two Presidents much closer to home; Marvin the eeyore - like Android (voiced by Alan Rickman) has a cute appearance comically incongruous with his deeply depressive nature; and Trillian (Zooey Deschanel), the well - nigh disposable token female of the original radio show, has been elevated up to a genuine love - interest for dressing - gowned hero Arthur Dent (Martin «The Office» Freeman capably taking over from Simon Jones — although Jones turns up briefly as a «ghostly image»).

Instead, people were talking about the T - top, a convertible - style roof design patented by legendary designer Gordon Buehrig in 1951 and that eventually first appeared on the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.

With all of the visible aero bits on this prototype, the C7 Corvette ZR1 could possibly be the first Corvette to utilize an active aero system, which was first revealed in a patent filing by General Motors.

The theory behind Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) was first thought of by Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century and first patented as long ago as 1886.

These initial two engines are planned to be joined by a reworked version of BMW's turbocharged 4.4 - liter V8 N63 gasoline engine, running the company's patented Valvetronic variable valve timing for the first time, with 444 hp and 479 lb - ft of torque in the 650i Gran Coupe.

It was first developed by Siemens in 1995 and introduced by Mercedes - Benz under the name «Key-less Go» in 1998 on the W220 S - Class, after the design patent was filed by Daimler - Benz on May 17, 1997.

The first pneumatic tube used in a department store, just like the one in The Death - Defying Pepper Roux, was patented by D. Brown in 1875.

The first documented pneumatic tube intended to transport people was patented in 1840 by Samuel Clegg and Jacob Selvan; it describes a vehicle on wheels that was placed on a track within a tube.

Petlinks by Worldwise, Inc. just launched its first line of corrugated scratchers with patented Catnip Infusion Technology.

The system was first invented and patented by Richard Peck in 1973 and was held until 1990 by Invisible Fence Co, now known as Invisible Fence Inc. [1]

Veterinary college researchers developed the first feline leukemia vaccine, patented by Ohio State, licensed to Zoetis (formally Pfizer), Inc., now routinely used worldwide.

He added, «Our unique and patented design is a world first in many ways and challenges industry norms by offering passengers more privacy, more choice, and more personalization.»

That first linked patent is meant to create a literal losing > jealousy / frustration > paying > winning loop where players can get beaten in - game by someone with a paid - for item and then be presented a chance to buy it.

Of course, the patented Bungie regenerating shields are on display, a design decision they popularized for the modern console shooter all those years ago with the first Halo, but they're joined by two new entrants into your rechargeable repertoire.

First held at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris in 1960, Klein's performances (now considered by many to be outrageously sexist) featured nude female models — who the artist referred to as «human paintbrushes» — rolling themselves in his patented International Klein Blue paint.