Sentences with phrase «for patents for»

Thanks to a law enacted in 1980, commonly known as the Bayh - Dole Act, universities can apply for patents for their inventions even if those inventions were funded by the federal government.

Since the proposal covers software, it's possible that grantees might want to apply for patents for a few of the works covered under the policy.

While Apple often files for patents for technology that never see the light of day, it often provides a glimpse into what the company is thinking for the future.

Apple often files for patents for products that don't ever see the light of day, but the documents could provide hints about a product roadmap.

You can search for patents for each of those devices.

1998), discussed here] that provides for patents for «business methods,» 49 tax - strategy patents have been issued, with numerous more applications filed.

American institutions, such as MIT, have been applying for patents for a lot longer than those in Britain, says Jennings.

Multiple authors on the paper have even filed for patents for the technique.

This time, the Motorola Mobility division has applied for a patent for a lie - detecting microphone throat tattoo.

In 1870, Edmund McIlhenny filed for a patent for an improvement in his pepper sauce.

Head of the firm, Biotech International Limited, Dr. Krishna Ella, said at a news conference on Wednesday that it had already filed for a patent for the Zika vaccine.

The researchers in turn can then apply for a patent for their contribution to science and technology.

Barres is the co-founder of a biotechnology company, Annexon Biosciences, which has produced, and filed for a patent for, an inhibitory antibody to C1q.

The researchers have applied for a patent for their technology.

General Motors has filed for a patent for a seven - speed dual clutch transmission, hinting that there might soon include be such a gearbox in the Corvette.

Nintendo has applied for a patent for an accessory attachment that will see the standard Wii Remote incorporate a touchpad device into its current default control system for the Nintendo Wii.

It's an idea that some have proposed in the past, and Facebook in 2011 applied for a patent for «paid profile personalization.»

Samsung has applied for a patent for the S Pen that can double as a stand for smartphones in the Galaxy Note series.

Now, the company has filed for a patent for controlling the smartwatch in an all - new way.

Last year, the company also applied for a patent for tech that would recommend ads based on the items inside Snaps.

Samsung unveiled a bendable AMOLED display prototype back in 2012 named Youm, and last year, it applied for a patent for a foldable phone that bends like a flip - phone handset.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, patents are one of the most effective barriers you can create for competitors, so pursue legal protection for any proprietary technology or product you develop.

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

For the intrepid and diehard curious, the dispute at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an extraordinary lesson in the complexity of academic science.

Patent attorney and software developer Thomas Haines has struck a deal with Sydney company IPH to sell his data analysis businesses for $ 8 million, but plans to continue running the operation from Perth.

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.

The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

The patents could, for instance, provide a deterrent to any competitor that wants to hobble them with nuisance lawsuits.

The startups will also benefit from Google's offer of free access to Innography (a commercial software tool for analyzing patents portfolios) and, more generally, from an in - the - weeds exposure to IP issues.

A few years ago my mother considered filing for a patent on a health product to solve a problem she often saw with her elderly patients.

Allergan has been drawing plenty of attention for its controversial deal to safe house patents on a blockbuster dry eye drug by transferring them to a Native American tribe in upstate New York.

For the record, I'm a patent holder.

Salt Lake City, Utah - based Nikola claims it was issued six design patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between February and April 2018 for its wrap windshield, mid-entry door, fuselage, fender, side cladding and the overall design of the Nikola One.

And Tesla already offers its patents to anyone who asks — making it highly plausible that Musk would agree to more information - sharing in return for a vastly expanded market for Tesla's cars.

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.

The other big reason the Google giveaway won't mean much for startups is that those patents — or any other patents — won't stop the trolls.

For the inventor who doesn't feel comfortable performing their own patent search, a reputable patent search firm is a good option.

Their inclusion in the network will ensure that, if the startups fail, their intellectual property will be less attractive to patent trolls looking for shakedown weapons.

According to IP Watchdog, an intellectual property law blog, professional patent searchers and attorneys may charge upwards of $ 3,000 for a patent search and a «patentability opinion.»

A federal judge on Monday invalidated the patents for «obviousness,» possibly rendering the Native patent deal moot.

Back in 2010, there was a patent filed for a pizza box designed specially to allow moisture to escape and keep the food from getting soggy.

I've been collecting royalties on my patent - protected technology for more than two decades.

South Korea's antitrust regulator fined Qualcomm 1.03 trillion won ($ 854 million) in December for what it called unfair practices in patent licensing, a decision the U.S. chipmaker said it will challenge in court.

Perhaps the search giant is actually tempted to follow the example of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.

Quebec, for example, launched a program in 2015 that covers 50 % of the costs of applying for a patent (or up to $ 25,000) for companies with fewer than 250 employees.

And if they succeed, their executives will be part of a culture that rejects the use of patents as a tool for aggression and ruinous lawsuits.

The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law, said that Qualcomm used its dominance in supplying baseband processors used in smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.

For a shorter version, check out IPStudies's remarkable portrait of the CRISPR patent landscape.

Waymo, the Google self - driving project that recently spun out to become a business under Alphabet, has filed a lawsuit against self - driving truck startup Otto and its parent company Uber for patent infringement and stealing trade secrets.

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