Sentences with phrase «license the patent at»

Your lawyers would argue that Lodsys is willing to license the patent at a 0.575 % rate and that your revenues are low, so damages should be small, but none of that is a legal limit for the court.

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At the same time, Murphy has also been buying up patent licenses from a host of universities and government and private labs, with the aim of turning promising technologies into real commercial products.

Today, through his legal practice at the D.C. firm Dickstein Shapiro (where he bills an unfriendly $ 575 an hour) and Grow Fast Grow Right (an entrepreneurship training firm he co-founded), Sherman guides small businesses through the maze of regulatory, patent, and licensing issues.

Chapter 1: What is Licensing and Selling Ideas Chapter 2: The Process Chapter 3: Sell Rather Than License Chapter 4: Sell Your Patent at Auction Chapter 5: Sell to a Patent Aggregator Chapter 6: What Do Companies Want?

In addition, I interviewed experts on the newest prototype methods, licensing managers at big and small companies, patent attorneys on the current issues, professors and successful entrepreneurs on time - tested marketing techniques, packaging designers, and investors on methods to raise money.

At issue between Qualcomm and Apple are licensing fees the chipmaker charges for patents that cover the basics of how mobile phone systems work.

He holds more than 1000 patents, licensed or sublicensed to more than 300 companies, and he has helped found at least two dozen biotechnology companies.

My first placement, at the UBC University - Industry Liaison Office, introduced me to the concepts of technology - transfer, patenting, and licensing issues.

In my last article, «Starting up a Start - up in the U.K», I looked at the first phases of the commercialisation of scientific research, filing a patent and deciding whether to license your technology or start your own company, and writing a business plan.

However, if the commercialization strategy is to license the formulation to others for manufacturing and sales, it may be prudent, and at times necessary, to file for a patent as the licensees may request that applications be filed for protection.

Dr Bokhari said: «The drug companies argue that they have a right to protect their intellectual property and that these agreements benefit consumers by enabling generic versions to come onto the market sooner than they would normally have, for example if licensed entry has been allowed at a later date but before the patent expires.

«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.

As the players anxiously await a ruling from USPTO, Science took a close look at how the enterprise fractured, drawing on documents from the patent litigation, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, licensing agreements, and interviews with the central figures.

A licensing agreement with the Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics Labs at the University of California, San Diego, for example, provides WowWee with access to patents and the labs with a healthy cash infusion.

«China and Japan are among the world's leading nations in stem cell research, but because of challenges distinct from western nations, they are dramatically underrepresented in terms of patents and licensing,» says Debra Mathews, PhD, MA, assistant director of Science Programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a founding member of the Hinxton Group.

A licensing agreement typically provides commercialization rights to patented and / or copyrighted IP developed at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

The new, US patent credits the Whitehead Institute's Rudolf Jaenisch, a scientific founder with Fate Therapeutics who licensed the technology to the company, and his former postdoc Konrad Hochedlinger, now at the Massachusetts General Hospital, with inventing a method for reprogramming cells

According to the report, Amazon is also looking at acquiring or licensing relevant patents that would protect its smartphone from lawsuits that currently almost every major player like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Motorola and others are engaged in courtrooms across the world.

Meanwhile e Ink received a record high royalties fee at NT$ 400 million by licensing Hydis» patents to Sharp, LG Display and other panel makers to make high - resolution LCD panels that are partly used in Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics patents.»

Meanwhile, the Hsinchu - based company said it received a record high royalties fee at NT$ 400 million by licensing Hydis» patents to Sharp, LG Display and other panel makers to make high - resolution LCD panels that are partly used in Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics patents.

«Barnes & Noble asserts that Microsoft's conduct in connection with its «Android licensing program,» when examined as a whole, constitutes patent misuse because through this conduct Microsoft is leveraging trivial patents — patents that could otherwise easily be worked around — in order to charge licensing fees for products that do not infringe any Microsoft patents at all,» the company said in its filing.

Amazon.com Inc., whose Kindle reader is the Nook's top competitor, has a license with Microsoft for at least one of the patents in the case, Microsoft said in its March 2011 complaint.

As part of the transaction, at the closing Axcelis and SEN will enter into cross licenses that will allow the two companies to continue to use certain patents and technical information owned by the other to make and sell ion implant systems on a worldwide, royalty - free, perpetual basis.

The patents at issue in the case are owned by Cornell University and are licensed to OptiGen for canine genetic testing related to progressive retinal atrophy (PRA - prcd), Collie eye anomaly (CEA), congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB), and Retinal dysplasia / Oculoskeletal dysplasia (RD / OSD).

Further, Bolsen reported that Coskata has licensed a variety of anaerobic bacterial strains capable of converting both CO and H2, and has patents pending for its bioreactor designs, which are scalable and capable of carrying out fermentation or converting syngas to ethanol at low - to - moderate pressures and low temperatures.

(As an aside, while NAFTA did change the compulsory licensing regime with respect to pharmaceutical patents, S. 66 (1)(a) of the patent act still allows for compulsory licensing in some situations (in theory at least, I don't know of any examples in practice).

Mr. Chen has extensive experience in helping high - tech companies in Silicon Valley and China on building comprehensive patent portfolios and developing sophisticated international patent strategies, assessing, avoiding and responding to third - party IP threats, inter partes reviews (IPRs) and reexaminations at the patent office, district court patent litigation, in - bound and out - bound technology licensing, and negotiating IP asset transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the like.

Prior to joining Brooks Kushman, Berry achieved tenure at Western Michigan University — Cooley Law School, where he teaches Patent Law, Patent Litigation, and Licensing of Intellectual Property.

For instance, a company having patents may prefer to utilise them directly, but at the same time the company sells licenses to certain patents.

It's possible; you would have to examine each companies» licensing agreement with the original developers and manufacturer of the effects pedals, and look at the patents for each original device.

At McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C., we help our clients obtain and protect their intellectual property rights through patents, trademark and copyright registrations; representing our clients in transactional work such as licensing when these rights are transferred; and litigating when these rights are involved in controversy.

Berry, a former IP law professor at Cooley Law School, provides counsel to Brooks Kushman clients on issues of patent and license disputes.

Irene Lee is a partner at Russ August & Kabat, where she focuses her practice on all aspects of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, right of publicity, and technology licensing.

As at least some of the patent applications currently in the system, are granted, some players may establish themselves as dominate in certain spaces or establish key technology that is either licensed to others or unique to a single provider.

Patent professionals at both law firms and corporations, research and development scientists and licensing / strategy professionals.

I've always said that Apple should get something, but the longer this dispute has taken, the clearer it has become that Apple's leverage is limited, and let's not forget that Apple at some point needs a license, on FRAND terms obviously, to Samsung's standard - essential patents.

He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University (WMU)- Cooley Law School, where he co-founded the WMU Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law and teaches Patent Law, Patent Litigation, and Licensing of Intellectual Property.

They argued that a license agreement calling for payments over a longer time period, but at a lower royalty rate, actually promoted licensing and innovation by making access to patented technology more affordable and by better allocating the risks for some technologies.

From a timing perspective, this appeal to the Federal Circuit is most likely Microsoft's nearest - term opportunity to prove Android's infringement of more of its U.S. patents and to reach a tipping point at which Google, Motorola Mobility's owner, may agree that a royalty - bearing license deal is the commercially most intelligent choice.

At this position he was responsible for all aspects of the company's worldwide legal function including the management of legal staff, outside counsel, intellectual property, inbound and outbound open source programs, strategic partnerships, software licensing, anti-piracy initiatives, export compliance, on - line privacy, and relationships with licensors of patents for patent - essential industry standards.

We have also acted in some of the most significant matters at the cutting edge intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law, including the emerging issues related to standards setting and licensing abuses, geo - blocking, pay for delay patent settlement agreements, and licensing of IP rights including sports broadcasting rights:

Examples of her work at Carpmaels includes advising a prospective licensee in a global patent licensing deal.

The problem is infringers, and it began by financially empowered corporations who, rather than settle or license what is rightfully owner by a patent holder, throw endless dollars at attorneys in order to ultimately drain inventors to where they can not protect the IP rights endowed to them.

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

Knowing the web of ownership could, for example, allow a defendant to recognize previously agreed - upon licenses on the patents at hand.

Some options for the inventor at this point: a) seek funding from investors with patent in hand (guaranteeing a spot in the market with «Invention X») and use funding to create product, b) sell or license the patent to those who actually would use the invention in their product (s), or c) do whatever the inventor sees fit with their granted IP.

New research shows that Intellectual Ventures is tied to at least 1,300 shell companies whose sole purpose is to coerce real companies into buying patent license that they don't want or need.

s the thing: 1 -800-CONTACTS does not appear at all interested in licensing the patent to Ditto.

Thus, if there were a scheme by which smaller companies could thwart these initial advances by patent trolls, trolls may be less effective overall at extracting licensing fees.

While many decry reforms like these — especially the one relating to banks — as nothing more than Washington, D.C., political game - playing and Wall Street favors, each in its own right highlights the larger problem with business method patents: instead of spurring innovation (as the patent system is intended to do), they often harm businesses by imposing additional costs (in the form of licenses or litigation), which in turn harms the consumer, as well as the economy at large.