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Texas court rules that Apple must pay out for infringing six, decades - old patents held by pager and telco firm, MTel

Gunther Karsten, a 43 - year - old patent translator and seven - time German memory champion, showed up in his distraction - minimizing uniform: earmuffs and sunglasses with the lenses taped over except for two small pinholes.

The 9 - month - old patent battle over CRISPR, a novel genome - editing tool that could have immense commercial value, has taken two surprising twists.

The oldest patent I have found so far for an automatic litter box looks, in concept, very similar to the current LitterMaid and LitterMaid Elite products.

The pharmaceutical companies producing them see these products as restoring their dominance in a market where older patents have expired.

They stole that idea from Nintendo and made it look like an old patent lmao all Sony does is copy there competition, that's funny coming from a company that claims they're the best, they're sure the best at copying.

An older patent discovered by NeoGAF user Disorientator shows a different controller design that looks like a smaller, simpler Wii U GamePad, complete with physical controls and a touchscreen in the middle.

Most exhibitions take place in the museum's main building, the old Patent Office Building (shared with the National Portrait Gallery), while craft - focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick Gallery.

American Art's main building, the Old Patent Office Building, is a National Historic Landmark located in Washington, D.C.'s downtown cultural district.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum first opened to the public in its current location in 1968 when the Smithsonian renovated the Old Patent Office Building in order to display its collection of fine art.

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«I post what I am interested in,» he says, «which is old patents, new technology, ancient inventions and technology, and historical patents.

These trolls tend to rely on old patents with questionable applicability to modern technology.

Instead of renting an office, the 58 - year - old patent attorney and engineer bought a former Coca - Cola bottling plant that had become a dilapidated mosquito breeding ground.

The later patent covers the new parts of the new invention, but not the parts that were in the old patent.

«World's oldest patent attorney (C. Yardley Chittick, 104) yields secrets Main Fair or unfair use?

The rise of patent trolls, which are a target of the proposed law, can be traced in no small part to Intellectual Ventures, which has armed thousands of shell companies with old patents in recent years.

In late April, for instance, trolls filed nearly 200 lawsuits in a single day, using old patents to target everyone from Etsy to the NFL.

With CEO John Chen seeking alternative revenue streams for the beleaguered company, it makes sense for BlackBerry to be scouring its large collection of older patents for potential infringements.

The trolling problem, which involves shell companies using old patents to extort everyone from major companies to small app developers, has become especially acute in recent years.

In response to an email inquiry about whether the aggressive assertion of old patents conflicted with universities» research mission, a Boston University spokesman last month offered the following statement:

Boston University raised eyebrows in July when it claimed Apple (s aapl) was infringing a nearly two - decade old patent, and asked a federal court to ban a range of popular products such as the iPhone 5 and the MacBook Air.

Selling old patents brings universities little revenue but risks contributing to the wider economic harm from patent trolling.

The complaint is typical of tactics used by patent trolls: invoking old patents to make sweeping claims, while demanding an injunction, damages and a jury trial.

The state of Vermont has decided to join private companies like Twitter in taking the fight to patent trolls — shell companies that don't do anything except use old patents to extort businesses into paying licenses for common technology.

As we've noted before, Google's non-aggression pact is no magic bullet to stop nuisance cloud - based lawsuits, in part because it provides little deterrent to so - called trolls — shell companies, often backed by lawyers and private investors, that do nothing but acquire old patents in order to file lawsuits.

And in March, while the Patent Reform Act was still on the Senate's schedule, we commented on the value of one form of reexamination known as an «ex parte» reexam (the only form of reexamination available for older patents) and provided some statistics.

There's also an older patent for a wearable that can measure your respiration rate, which could well be a feature on the Apple Watch 4, but considering we've yet to see any further leaks about the feature it may be something included on a future wearable like the Watch 5.

Ramirez's remarks suggest the federal government is finally getting serious about the harm caused by patent trolls — shell firms that don't make anything but amass old patents to threaten lawsuits against productive companies.

One problem is that the pledge will have little effect against patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures, which buy up old patents and use them to file lawsuits against productive companies.

The patent wars engulfing the tech industry have taken a new twist as five cable companies filed a lawsuit to stop Rockstar, a consortium owned by Google (s goog) competitors that bought up 4,000 old patents in 2012 and began suing a wide variety of device makers.

Not exact matches

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.

Apple, which won a federal suit in California that Samsung infringed on iPhone patents, is trying to get the courts to force Samsung to stop selling older Galaxy products in the U.S..

Patent trolls buy up old or soon - to - be-expired patents, and then often sue small business owners for infringement, hoping for a quick cash settlement.

The project is not yet a year old and already they have a patent on the material and are looking beyond automotive applications.

The towing equipment company announced it settled a four - year - old dispute with rival Hopkins over patent rights to electronic brake controllers.

Gothenburg - based FPC has been around for almost two decades, building a technology business based on an old Swedish fingerprinting patent.

On June 4, the ITC, the U.S. agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade, ruled in favor of Samsung's patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.

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.

Apple got a boost late Friday when the International Trade Commission ruled that rival Samsung infringed on some of its iPhone - related patents for older Galaxy phones and tablets.

• «My grandfather — who is now 94 and who's got all the zipper machine patents in Google patent search — took me to Radio Shack when I was about 8 years - old.

In February, Brian Camelio, a former studio musician for Journey and Phish who some consider the father of crowdfunding, obtained a patent for a process that is similar to 2.5 - year - old Kickstarter's business model.

Meanwhile, Pfizer's Essential Health segment, which sells older, mostly off - patent drugs, saw its sales decline 10 % year over year, to $ 5.36 billion.

Drug companies often face the need to come up with new medicines, especially as patents on older pharmaceuticals expire.

And the court has given states broad immunity from being sued in any court for money damages — for example, for infringing a patent or discriminating against older or disabled state employees — even though the Constitution limits this immunity only to suits in federal court by a citizen of a different state.

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

We of the present age are not the first to find difficulties in the Old Testament, for they are patent.

I am 25 yrs old, got a Masters degree in Aerospace, work at GM with 2 patents and 2 technial publications and I am a muslim.