The Attorney General's (AG) involvement ups the ante for any patent troll, flips the balance of power in the typically patent troll situation (there by discouraging the basic strategy of most patent troll), and importantly, can serve to insulate Vermont businesses from the claims
made by patent trolls because there would be no direct recourse by the patent troll on a potential infringer.
«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries... continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims
made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»
American businesses of all sizes and from all industry sectors are being held hostage by frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims
made by patent trolls.
«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries — from national realty, construction, and technology businesses to Main Street retail shops, hotels, grocers, convenience stores, and restaurants — continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims
made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»
Instead of investing in new jobs and services, businesses must fight frivolous claims and overly broad lawsuits
made by patent trolls against a range of technologies and commonplace ideas.
Because an IPR proceeding involves reexamination of an earlier administrative grant of a patent, it follows that statements
made by a patent owner during an IPR proceeding can be considered during claim construction and relied upon to support a finding of prosecution disclaimer.
These are blockbuster drugs and pay - to - delay agreements
made by the patent holder may ward off the entry threat by other potential challengers.
The word «Tabasco» has been in actual use since such abandonment of the patent to describe a sauce which was not
made by the patented process.
«If Edmund Mcllhenny, prior to the expiration of the patent to him, had acquired the exclusive right to use the word «Tabasco» with reference to a sauce not
made by the patented process, that right was not extinguished by the expiration of the patent, as the patent had nothing to do with the acquisition of it.
Not exact matches
«Apple's declarations
make evident that it has sought to challenge Qualcomm's
patent licensing practices and anticompetitive conduct territory
by territory,» Curiel wrote.
Attacked
by some as a
patent troll for the $ 150 million he
made, he now wants to bring the entire
patent world into the 21st century, using AI and the blockchain.
That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30
patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative
made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions
by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.
These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other
patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted
by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may
make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization
by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings
made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Apple doesn't appear to own the
patents to
make its own mobile modem chips, an area in which it has increasingly been shifting from Qualcomm (qcom) to chips
made by Intel in an effort to cut costs.
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.
Celgene's
patents likely won't be challenged
by its rivals anytime soon — its three main
patents expire in the 2020s,
by which point the company will have
made a considerable amount of money on the drugs.
For example, before applying for a
patent, you should make sure that no one else has applied for a similar patent by checking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's dat
patent, you should
make sure that no one else has applied for a similar
patent by checking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's dat
patent by checking the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office's dat
Patent and Trademark Office's database.
«Bounce has infringed and continues to infringe the» 327
Patent by making, selling, offering for sale, importing and / or using software and services in an infringing manner,» Yieldify's court filings allege.
Other proposals would
make it easier for competing, «biosimilar» alternatives to break through the thicket of
patents created
by sellers of complex drugs such as insulin.
And if you listen very closely, there are echoes of Cosell's legendary incantation, his exultant chime, in this one - sentence call
made yesterday
by a three - judge
patent trial and appeal board in Alexandria, Virginia:
Slavitt said EpiPen has
patent protection, has no Food and Drug Administration - approved equivalents, and was approved
by that agency under a «new drug application,» all of which
make it a brand - name drug.
The CMA's ruling comes amid a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the ethics of price hikes for old off -
patent medicines that are only
made by a few firms and where there is little competition.
«We did our own analysis of Fortune 500 companies,» he tells CNBC
Make It, «and we found that companies that have women in top management roles experience what we call «innovation intensity» and produce more
patents —
by an average of 20 percent more than teams with male leaders.»
Spotting an opportunity to switch materials — «I was always sort of an environmentalist,» he says — and avoid the laborious staining and painting involved with lumber, he hunted down a plastic supplier, built an Adirondack mould inspired
by the chair's original 1905
patent, and
made a few units.
As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined
by the number of phones a company sold that were
made using infringed
patents.
While the goal of proposed legislation is to address abusive litigation, in the aggregate the bill has the potential to diminish the value of a
patent by making it harder to enforce.
Tesla is being sued
by Nikola Motor, which
makes hydrogen - powered semi-trucks, in a lawsuit alleging design
patent infringements.
Apple said after Tuesday's verdict it would appeal and that the outcome was another reason reform was needed in the
patent system to curb litigation
by companies that
make money off
patent royalties instead of products.
Canada's Federal Court could be given greater powers to combat unacceptable behaviour
by domestic and foreign «
patent trolls» — companies that do not
make or sell a product but sue other companies for
patent infringement based on existing
patent rights the troll has secured.
The EU has
made its
patent enforcement system much more attractive and globally competitive
by implementing the unitary European
patent protection and court system, so that the ownership of ideas within the European market will be decided inside the UPC.
The
patent goals to
make the presumably nameless crypto data related and identifiable
by gathering knowledge from a number of sources after which discovering the correlation with different transactions.
India's «
Make in India» campaign has begun to pay dividends in the defense sector — a field where sharing of technology, processes and
patented know - how
by global giants does not happen easily.
The tech investor may request that the new business undertake some prior - art searches on key proposed
patent concepts as part of the due diligence process,
making sure that the same (or very similar) concept has not already been
patented by someone else.
ITC's decision came on the same day when Mr.Obama took steps to control companies that buy and enforce
patents rather than
making their own products and services known as
patent trolls
by their detractors.
In many European countries,
by contrast, a company that does not itself
make use of a
patent for three years must negotiate license agreements with other companies wishing to use it.
For example, a process for
making crispy meat chips — an alternative to potato chips for those on a no - carb diet — is covered
by U.S.
Patent No. 7,662,422.
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.»
Description: The Fris Vodka is
made with a
patented Freeze Distillation technique resulting in a vodka with outstanding quality and inspired
by the mesmeric chill of the Nordic realm.
These products are
made possible
by advances in the PureCircle Stevia Agronomy Program and the company's
patented extraction process.
This then, is not the case of a manufacturer, after the expiration of a
patent, availing himself of the right to
make the identical article
patented and claiming the right to identify it
by the name given to it
by the inventor, or acquired
by it as identifying the
patented article.
The defendant, in answer, denies that plaintiff or its predecessors now use, or have ever used, the word «Tabasco» as a trade - mark or identifying name for sauce, and specially avers that the word «Tabasco» could not and can not be appropriated as a trade - mark, because it is geographical and descriptive; that plaintiff continually acquiesced in the descriptive use of the word «Tabasco,» and never
made a bona fide attempt to establish the trade - mark it now asserts; and that any rights that plaintiff may have had in the name as a trade - mark were lost
by the
patenting of the process and the expiration of such
patent.
Defendant Bulliard, concededly, has a perfect right, so far as plaintiff is concerned, to
make sauce in accordance with the
patent, but he does not pretend to be doing so, and, in fact, since the adoption of the National Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution and the passage of an enforcement statute
by Congress, he may not do so, as the
patented process provided for a mixture of alcohol as well as vinegar with the pepper pulp.
The brown rice protein used in both studies is the
patented and GRAS - approved Oryzateinm ®
made by Axiom Foods.
The brown rice protein used in both studies is the
patent pending and GRAS approved Oryzatein ®
made by Axiom Foods.
PureCircle could not provide more details on what
makes this product using Reb A identical to Reb D and Reb M due to «competitive reasons» and because much of its production is covered
by patents and other intellectual property.
Antonious has
made a fortune — he will not say how many millions he is worth —
by issuing licenses on his
patents and trademarks and pursuing the companies that he believes have infringed on them.
But to eliminate the offside rule (its infringement is a free - kick offense,
by the way, not a penalty) would be to
make patent nonsense of the game.
One clubmaker, Callaway, went so far as to take out a
patent on the sound
made by its clubs, believing that golfers have come to equate sound with distance.
Glass bottles
made by Born Free are equipped with
patented ActiveFlow Venting Technology developed in cooperation with pediatricians.
At issue is whether Procter & Gamble has the
patent rights to what it calls the best disposable diaper
made today, and whether Weyerhaeuser copied Procter & Gamble «s design to market a disposable diaper that Montgomery Ward and Penneys have sold
by the million.