Sentences with phrase «of patent applications in»

Significant research and development work, docu - mented by an increasing num - ber of patent applications in the field is going on.
Approximately 80 % of patent applications in Canada originated from a PCT application.
The top filers of patent applications in 2017 were General Electric Company, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. and The Procter & Gamble Company.
Significant research and development work, documented by an increasing number of patent applications in the field is going on.
At a symposium and webinar presented by Fenwick & West and Mewburn Ellis, we asked U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office examiners to provide perspective on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the areas of precision medicine and bioinformatics, disciplines that are at the epicenter of rapidly changing law on patent eligibility of software and medical diagnostic inventions.
One can request a strategic delay in the examination of a patent application in order to defer costs or to wait to see if the patent will be infringed, but at the five - year point the patent is considered abandoned if examination is not requested.
The difficulties are well illustrated by last month's rejection of a patent application in the US, by the Institutes of Health, for DNA sequences without knowledge of the function of the gene.

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The term «microfluidics» appears in nine of the 31 patents that appear when searching the US Patent Office for «Theranos,» and she's the co-inventor on more than 270 global patent applicaPatent Office for «Theranos,» and she's the co-inventor on more than 270 global patent applicapatent applications.
Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.
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.
Because of the possibility of a patent interference, it is wise to document all invention - related activities in a signed and witnessed inventor's notebook so that you can later prove the date the invention was conceived and the steps you took to build and test the invention or quickly file a patent application.
The patent deed consists primarily of the information submitted in the patent application, as modified during the patent examination process.
«Our patents are strong enough to make it possible for us to develop all those kind of applications in the future, [but] right now we're focusing on the bicycle helmet.»
Founded by inventor Larry Fullerton, Correlated Magnetics holds 85 patents on processes and designs, and is working on applications in everything from aerospace to medicine to home - building, and has drawn the interest of the U.S. Navy and NASA.
I filed a few patent applications back in 2010 and they're still pending, with a lot of back and forth between myself and the USPTO.
The company has more than 70 patents that can incorporate applications of blockchain, and several dozen other patents for «digital wallets,» means of authentication and other processes needed to apply the technology in banking and commerce, according to David Pratt, managing director at Mcam - International.
In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on July 6, Amazon registered a trademark application for «prepared food kits composed of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, fruit and / or vegetables» that is ready for cooking and assembly as a meal.
While we don't know all the link attributes measured by the engines, through analysis of patent applications, years of experience and hands - on testing, we can draw some intelligent assumptions that hold up in the real world.
If you want to learn more, search algorithm patent expert Bill Slawski, wrote a post in 2011 called the original PageRank Patent application, which gives a very detailed technical analysis patent expert Bill Slawski, wrote a post in 2011 called the original PageRank Patent application, which gives a very detailed technical analysis Patent application, which gives a very detailed technical analysis of it.
There was even talk of Google potentially bidding on BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which holds 3,134 patents and patent applications for mobile devices.
If you are going to file a patent application you must have drawings to include in the application, but patent drawings are not the only type of»...
For example, a Supplementary Protection Certificate in Europe may be applied for approval to recover some of the time lost between the patent application filing date and the date of first marketing authorization.
We expect this will be the first of many more patents to come, as our portfolio of blockchain patent applications is among the largest — if not the largest — in the world.
As companies rush to protect their IP, the total number of annual patent applications worldwide has soared — up almost 60 per cent between 1998 and 2008, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
Such a gating function remains (from the USPTO's perspective) unavailable to the other exceptions based on its current guidance memoranda even though many claims in technology - focused patent applications encompass functional differences relative to the state of the art.
If you plan to file the patent in other countries, it is strategic to file a PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) application, which must be done within 12 months of the priority applicpatent in other countries, it is strategic to file a PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) application, which must be done within 12 months of the priority applicPatent Cooperation Treaty) application, which must be done within 12 months of the priority application.
In the US and Canada, you must file your patent application within 12 months of your first public disclosure.
On 23 December 2011, Douglas Feigelson of BitBills filed a patent application for «Creating And Using Digital Currency» with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an action which was contested based on prior art in Junepatent application for «Creating And Using Digital Currency» with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an action which was contested based on prior art in JunePatent and Trademark Office, an action which was contested based on prior art in June 2013.
Yahoo also recently weighed in with an approach that adds a slightly different touch to the questions of identity and impersonation, with a patent filing titled Trust Based Moderation (US Patent Application 2012018patent filing titled Trust Based Moderation (US Patent Application 2012018Patent Application 20120180138).
The food tech company announced earlier this week the close of a $ 24.7 million round of funding and its procurement of a patent to use animal - free dairy proteins in food applications.
In 2013, more than 70 % of ITW patent applications were commercialized into products.
From the stipulation in the present case, it appears that the term «exclusive use» had, up to that time, been uniformly held by the Commissioner of Patents to mean «rightfully exclusive» as distinguished from «sole and exclusive,» and that the application was signed on the assurance of reputable counsel, that, in the legal sense of the word, the Mcllhenny use had been exclusive.
The Silicon Valley - based innovator is collaborating with food companies and food investors to bring its proteins to market and has raised US$ 24.7 million in funding and received its first patent for the use of animal - free dairy proteins in food applications.
In the 29 - page United States Patent Application Publication for Oryzatein, co-inventors, David Janow and Dr. Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA, have cited unique aspects of how this plant protein affects:
Since its founding in 2006, NanoLumens has built a portfolio of more than 20 international families of issued and filed patents on its flexible display technology that effectively address the commercial market void between relatively small flat - panel displays and huge, limited application LED boards.
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But it was sitting on the corner of my desk at work, and literally all the men who walked by my desk stopped, picked it up, flipped through, started laughing, and then asked the other guys in the room if they'd read one or another of the patent applications.
Consider this: despite the number of European patent filings growing for the third year in a row; last year the number of patent applications from the BRIC markets accounted for almost 60 per cent of global filings.
An investigation of 2.7 million patent submissions in the U.S. finds gender disparities throughout the application process.
If your degree is in a technical field such as computer science, engineering, or one of the life sciences, many intellectual property law firms employ PhDs as technical specialists to review and compose patent applications.
4.2.6 Supply a Patent Applicant with copies (in print or electronic format) of individual articles of the Licensed Materials and to store print copies of such articles for the Licensee's internal use, solely in connection with the patent application process provided each article or excerpt from the Licensed Materials contains a credit line noting the original appearance of the article in its appropriate journal; provided any portion of the Licensed Materials used for these purposes looks identical to the original material; and provided such use does not present any material from the Licensed Materials in any manner that implies that Publisher endorses Licensee or any of the Licensee's products or serPatent Applicant with copies (in print or electronic format) of individual articles of the Licensed Materials and to store print copies of such articles for the Licensee's internal use, solely in connection with the patent application process provided each article or excerpt from the Licensed Materials contains a credit line noting the original appearance of the article in its appropriate journal; provided any portion of the Licensed Materials used for these purposes looks identical to the original material; and provided such use does not present any material from the Licensed Materials in any manner that implies that Publisher endorses Licensee or any of the Licensee's products or serpatent application process provided each article or excerpt from the Licensed Materials contains a credit line noting the original appearance of the article in its appropriate journal; provided any portion of the Licensed Materials used for these purposes looks identical to the original material; and provided such use does not present any material from the Licensed Materials in any manner that implies that Publisher endorses Licensee or any of the Licensee's products or services;
«Obviously none of the other materials... would produce a comb possessing the many excellent qualities and inherent superiorities of a comb made of celluloid,» Hyatt wrote in one of his patent applications.
The relevant patents involve the positioning of differentiated retinal cells in the eye and not the creation of these cells and would potentially be exempt from the ruling; his team wrote its patent this way to distinguish it from other stem - cell - based applications — they felt that describing the placement of cells rather than the creation of the cells was likely to be more novel.
In general terms, a technical specialist's job is to first understand the science underlying an «invention» and then craft a well - written patent application that broadly describes the unique aspects of that discovery or scientific development.
In general, if the invention is new (i.e., it has not been disclosed to the public), is not obvious, and is capable of industrial application, then (with the exception of a few excluded categories) it should be possible to obtain a patent for an invention.
For instance, your technical knowledge of a broad range of topics in your field, along with an ability to appreciate the potential applications of new ideas, may make you invaluable to investment firms, venture capitalists, and even patent lawyers trying to get a handle on the investment potential of new companies or technologies.
The policy — in the form of first Office Actions on a series of applications for patents on expressed sequence tags, ESTs — could greatly complicate basic gene therapy research by substantially allowing patents for small sequences of a gene that may later be used by the patent holder to corner ownership and uses of entire genes.
By not filing a patent application you can inadvertently lock your university out of potentially valuable money - spinning activities, such as carving a niche in the market or negotiating lucrative licensing deals.
In 1992, the National Institutes of Health filed two patent applications together claiming more than 4,000 ESTs.
It leads the nation in patent applications because of the high concentration of high - tech research institutes, including the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW).
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