Sentences with phrase «old patents»

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

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

The Smithsonian American Art Museum shares the historic Old Patent Office building with the National Portrait Gallery, another Smithsonian museum.

The FTC news, announced in a press release, comes as state and federal law makers are proposing measures to curtail the controversial practice of patent trolling, which involves shell companies amassing old patents in order to make legal threats against companies that actually produce things.

The New York Times (s nyt) has published some damning exposes about patent trolls — shell companies that make a business of using old patents to demand money from real businesses — and now it's getting an opportunity to endure a troll attack first hand.

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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.

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:

These are shell companies that don't make anything but instead amass old patents in order to demand licensing fees from those that do.

According to Bloomberg, Intellectual Ventures is in the process of raising money to expand its controversial practice of acquiring old patents in order to extract money through litigation and licensing demands.

And they'll expose themselves to the litigious behaviour of non-practising entities, a.k.a. «patent trolls,» mercenary firms whose entire purpose is to buy old patents and then threaten to sue the pants off unprotected businesses with similar ideas.

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 American Art Museum museum, once named «National Institute», is housed in the neoclassical Old Patent Office building, a National Historic Landmark, together with the National Portrait Gallery.

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

Courage says the issue of gene patents is fading somewhat, but there are still many old patents out there and it is important to protect them.

In practice, the company's main activities have consisted of arming hundreds of shell companies with old patents so that they can threaten businesses that actually produce real goods and services.

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.

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.

There are a ton of Essential patents revolving around the idea, and as Rubin recently pointed out on Twitter, the company also holds a two - year - old patent describing a camera that pops out of the top of the phone — a concept that began showing up on actual devices last month at MWC, along with Huawei's new nose - view keyboard camera.

Patent trolls exist solely to purchase old patents and to use the threat of expensive lawsuits to extort money from legitimate businesses.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1968, following major renovations, the Old Patent Office Building opened as the permanent home for two Smithsonian museums, the National Collection of Fine Arts (since renamed the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and the National Portrait Gallery.

It was not until 1957 when Congress turned the old Patent building over to the Smithsonian that this dream was fulfilled.

«I post what I am interested in,» he says, «which is old patents, new technology, -LSB-...]

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The media speculated on it because of Qualcomm and an old patent, but that's standard r and d.

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.

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.