Sentences with phrase «increasing number of patent»

That's the quarter in which the AIA was enacted, increasing the number of patent cases filed by plaintiffs

Significant research and development work, documented by an increasing number of patent applications in the field is going on.

More importantly, the Motorola patents don't stand alone; they are part of Google's swelling intellectual property portfolio, which now includes access to Samsung's patents as well as the rapidly increasing number of patents Google is obtaining internally.

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Check out the chart below for an idea of how the number of patent cases have increased in the last eight years:

A report last month from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that between 2007 and 2011 the «number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent.»

A.T. Kearney's report cites San Francisco's strong start - up ecosystem, emphasis on technology and willingness to take risks as contributing factors to the city's rapid increases in the number of U.S. patents.

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the number of Chinese patents registered in the U.S. increased from 41 in 1992 to 1,874 in 2008.

The number of patents, licenses, and spin - off companies created by academics is increasing.

«Over the past five years, our faculty has increasingly engaged in entrepreneurial and technology transfer activity — with significant increases in the number of U.S. and foreign patents issued, technology inventions licensed and start - up companies formed,» says UMSOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor.

Taking 2010 as the starting point, the government pledges to almost double the representation of Ph.D. - holders among the population age 25 to 34 by 2020 and increase research employment from 11.8 % to 16 %; raise to 10 % the share of publicly - funded Spanish papers ranked among the top 5 % of the most cited publications globally; increase Spain's share of European Union research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % to 25 %.

Patent fights are nothing new in the pharmaceutical industry but a new report shows that during 2017 the number of legal battles of pharmaceutical patents increased by 30 percent.

There has been a 484 % increase in the number of patents filed covering new legal services technology globally in the last five years, says Thomson Reuters «latest research.

There has been a 484 percent increase in the number of patents filed covering new legal services technology globally in the last five years, reveals an analysis from the legal business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of news and information for businesses and professionals.

More worryingly for the industry, patent trolls have been buying up portfolios from companies such as Nokia and Nortel and are now filing an increasing number of lawsuits against auto manufacturers.

Relying on Lex Machina's data, the GAO's analysis of a representative sample of 500 lawsuits from 2007 to 2011 concluded that the number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent over this period.

While the main theoretical benefit of patent protection is increased innovation, some assert a swamped U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted an inefficiently large number of patents with negligible innovation patent protection is increased innovation, some assert a swamped U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted an inefficiently large number of patents with negligible innovation Patent and Trademark Office has granted an inefficiently large number of patents with negligible innovation value.

But despite the increasing number of arguments and lawsuits, there's a lack of reliable, unbiased data on the patterns and trends about patent litigation in America.

In addition, GAO's detailed analysis of a representative sample of 500 lawsuits from 2007 to 2011 shows that the number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent over this period.

Some stakeholders GAO interviewed said that the increase in 2011 was most likely influenced by the anticipation of changes in the 2011 Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which made several significant changes to the U.S. patent system, including limiting the number of defendants in a lawsuit, causing some plaintiffs that would have previously filed a single lawsuit with multiple defendants to break the lawsuit into multiple lawsuits.

From 2000 to 2010, the number of patent infringement lawsuits in the federal courts fluctuated slightly, and from 2010 to 2011, the number of such lawsuits increased by about a third.

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of patent cases filed per year increased by about 670 cases - a -LSB-...]

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dPatent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

By 2010, that number had increased tenfold (for comparison, the number of patents issued altogether increased fivefold over the same 30 years).

Since 2005, the number of patent troll lawsuits per year has skyrocketed — a four-fold increase to over 5,000 lawsuits every year.

According to the patent, the system was designed to address the increasing number of transactions that any financial enterprise is required to process from their clients.

Apple owns a number of patents covering secure facial recognition technology, including IP that relies on 3D rendering for increased levels of accuracy.

In 2011, Congress passed legislative reforms to patent law in response to growing concerns that the patent system was unable to deal with challenges presented by the ever growing number of patent applications being submitted and the increasing complexity of the technology for which a patent is being requested.