Sentences with phrase «large number of patents»

Indeed, a large number of patents have been struck down by the courts and patent authorities since Alice came down.

Last year, Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion, which many hypothesized was because Google wanted access to the large number of patents Motorola Mobility held.

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 value.

Another way of protecting yourself if you invent something is to take out what amounts to a very large number of patents instead of just one or two.

Particularly in the information technology sector, companies are looking to shore up their defences by amassing large numbers of patents.

Instead they're used in groups by lawyers working out cross licensiing deals and he who has the largest number of patents has the most leverage at the bargaining table.

To Google's lawyers» (i.e., Quinn Emanuel's) credit, with only one Motorola patent being challenged in the Federal Patent Court of Germany, they have salvaged in that forum the same number of patents in a narrowed form as Samsung (so far) and Microsoft have with substantially larger numbers of patents - in - suit in Germany.

In IT, as opposed to pharmaceuticals, there are large numbers of patents potentially relevant to any successful product.

Not exact matches

The patent purchases and the new prior art tool are thus part of Google's larger strategy to lower the number and the value of patents affecting the tech industry.

But yet it is still sadly true that large numbers of our more thoughtful contemporaries are repelled from the Church because they find in it what looks to them like sheer unthinking obscurantism, a shockingly immoral attitude towards truth (of which Mr. Blamires» book is an example), and a cavalier disregard of patent fact about the world in which we live.

Issues are usually resolved in a public hearing which may attract a large number of participants and observers, particularly if the patent is of particular commercial or scientific interest.

In fact, it appears that there has been a large surge in the number of disgruntled Ph.D. s finding relief writing patents at law firms.

Campbell, who has developed a large number of fluorescent proteins for imaging applications, including some that are commercially distributed and others that are available through the non-profit Addgene, has a patent pending on the technology.

The test called SkimuneTM, which is trademarked and has a patent pending, has been successfully tested by a number of large pharmaceutical companies on drugs in development and provides a reliable result within two weeks.

1) Rapid conversion of a large number of scientists from patent scepticism toward acceptance of the likelihood that there was something to the idea of ACC, enough that no one mentioned career suicide at least.

In Zeno Corporation v BSM - Bionic Solutions [2009] EWHC 1829 (Pat), a letter was sent on behalf of a patent holder to a large number of Boots stores.

He accepted that, as the invention is a pharmaceutical substance, it was unlikely that any other company would have attempted to copy it until it had achieved regulatory approval but that once it was approved a large number of generic pharmaceutical competitors would most likely have copied Myoview in absence of the patents.

Perhaps because autumn coincides with the start of the school year, this week's Blawg Review features a large number of educational or explanatory posts, including Tom Collins of morepartnerincome on the six basic law firm metrics that every firm should track; Larry Bodine on how to jump - start cross-selling in your law firm; Invent Blog has a nice overview of how to tell if a patent has been litigated over; and Dennis Kennedy explains blogs and RSS.

Advising and representing a global technology company in a number of patent litigations, including defending it against standard - essential patent assertions and against the largest ever damages claim brought in patent infringement proceedings in Germany.

Pain relief med Oxycontin has the largest number of ANDA litigation cases; testosterone and metformin hydrochloride were the leading ingredients when it came to patent enforcement.

A second spike, immediately prior to the effective date of the AIA in late 2011, correlates with patent holders» last chance to sue large numbers of defendants in a single case.

Since that ruling was handed down, a large number of software patents have been invalidated in the Federal Circuit and in district courts.

As an aside, the enormous 2007 spike, more clear in the month - by - month view of Figure 8, was driven by the large number of asserted patents per case (and the large number of cases) in the Ronald A. Katz litigation.

Large numbers of Eastern District of Texas filings are being created by a relatively small number of non-practicing entities, also known as «patent trolls.»

Regarding numbers of filed patents, by country, the United States remained the largest, while China saw the fastest growth; by enterprise, HUAWEI Technology retained its leading position among global enterprises.

Furthermore, the large number of claim changes as a result of these requests reveal that reexamination is an important cornerstone of the Patent Office's capacity to ensure good patent quPatent Office's capacity to ensure good patent qupatent quality.

No, it won't curtail trolling altogether and it won't eliminate the large number of bad patents already floating through the system.

Apple has filed a number of patents related to wireless charging technology, but a large number of companies file design patents that never end up becoming actual products.

«Enterprises may handle a large number of financial transactions on a daily basis,» the patent said.