Sentences with phrase «patent application based»

I began to consider patent law as a career after working closely with a patent attorney to help prepare a patent application based on the research reported in my doctoral dissertation.

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The fundamental problems that algorithms can solve in the IP space relate to prior art search — how to know if a patent application is already covered by existing patents — and where «white space» exists in the patent system — how much room is left to patent an idea based on what has already been covered by existing grants.
While patent requirements and rules differ from country to country, several international treaties (including the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Paris Convention) allow U.S. inventors to obtain patent protection in other countries that have adopted the treaties if the inventors take certain required steps, such as filing a patent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patentpatent requirements and rules differ from country to country, several international treaties (including the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Paris Convention) allow U.S. inventors to obtain patent protection in other countries that have adopted the treaties if the inventors take certain required steps, such as filing a patent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patentPatent Cooperation Treaty and the Paris Convention) allow U.S. inventors to obtain patent protection in other countries that have adopted the treaties if the inventors take certain required steps, such as filing a patent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patentpatent protection in other countries that have adopted the treaties if the inventors take certain required steps, such as filing a patent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patentpatent application in the countries on a timely basis and paying required patentpatent fees.
A U.S. patent court in 2007 invalidated the company's patent 5126156, basing the ruling on the fact that Dippin» Dots had sold its product for more than a year prior to filing its patent application.
The Founders 10 have been chosen from among North America - based, founder - led companies that went public after January 1, 2014, according to IPOScoop, and had the most patent activity (including grants and applications) in 2016, according to IFI Claims Patent Serpatent activity (including grants and applications) in 2016, according to IFI Claims Patent SerPatent Services.
The Canadian patent office granted the patents based on the content in the applications, but they remained subject to challenge.
Singapore's Intellectual Property Office announced an initiative to expedite the patent - granting process for fintech - related applications such as blockchain - based payments.
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.
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has announced a new initiative named «Fintech Fast Track» that aims to speed up the patent application - to - grant process for blockchain - based patents.
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.
Based on the description in the patent application, this blockchain system can authenticate data and provide access to the bank's service providers as well.
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).
Using the same Ishida - patented GA technology as our flagship models, our side beam system detects both metallic and non-metallic foreign bodies - such as glass, stones, rubber and dense plastic - to the same high standards with settings you can control based on your application.
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.
Co-author of United States Patent 5,194,477 for flame retardant Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) based composite polymers for electronic 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.
On a day - to - day basis, my job involves advising on all areas of patents: I write patent applications, persuade patent offices all over the world to grant patents to my clients, defend and attack patents, perform patentability and right - to - use searches, as well as advise on patentability and infringement issues and patent portfolio strategy and management.
«When the patent was first filed nearly 5 years ago,» she said, «there was some thinking that this feature would have potential applications for fertility clinics, where the donor selection process was typically based on photos, family history, and some limited genetic testing of donors.»
The University of Nottingham has filed a patent application for a memory device based on the effect.
The University of Hawai'i Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development (OTTED) has filed a provisional U.S. patent application for the new cell - sorting method, «Surface Free Energy Based Particle Sorting.»
Based on these findings the Broad Institute and the Helmholtz Zentrum München also filed a provisional patent application.
This patent - pending technology is currently being co-developed by MediWise, a UK based company that specializes in commercializing metamaterials for medical applications.
The Patent Office is based in Newport, Gwent, but an office is maintained in London to receive and date - stamp hand - delivered applications which are too urgent or sensitive to post.
The court also ruled that if «the subject matter of the patent application requires the prior destruction of human embryos or their use as base material,» the application is not patentable.
Research at CeNTech keeps a strong relation to technological applications and shall result in patents for new nanotechnology based inventions which can be developed up to the product level.
Dr. Erlanson is an inventor on more than a dozen issued and published patent applications and is author and presenter of dozens of publications and national and international scientific presentations, including co-editing two books on fragment - based drug discovery.
Berkeley Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office has filed an application for a patent based on this research.
Despite being the result of public research, golden rice is enmeshed in around seventy patents owned by some thirty - two companies and institutions, according to the US - based International Service for the Acquisition of Agri - biotech Applications (ISAAA).4 Because of the complexity of licensing arrangements, the inventors ceded their rights to Greenovation, a biotech spin - off company from the University of Freiburg, which then struck a deal with AstraZeneca (now Syngenta).
In a trademark filing dated March 19th, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for «Silent Hill» on an «intent - to - use» basis.
PHMSA has also invested nearly $ 93 million dollars in general R&D projects that have since hit the market, among them 22 patent applications and 25 new pipeline technologies, including above - ground, radar - based pipeline mapping and a nondestructive testing method for unpiggable pipelines.
Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass.
The Boston - based company Anaqua, which provides a cloud - based IP management and workflow platform, today announced its acquisition of two sibling IP technology products, AcclaimIP, a patent analytics application, and Free Patents Online, a free patent search tool, both of which were previously owned by partners James Ryley, Erik Reeves and Matt Troyer, with offices in Baltimore and Austin.
Until recently, it was still possible for intellectual property attorneys to succeed using trial - and - error - based philosophies of patent prosecution, particularly when working with applications that were not submitted to high - technology art units.
However, with the rise of software and other computer - based information - processing methods, the U.S. Patent Office could often not determine whether a given patent application was a technological invention or a business praPatent Office could often not determine whether a given patent application was a technological invention or a business prapatent application was a technological invention or a business practice.
There was a similar case in Germany, when the Federal Patent Court (FPC) rejected an application for a shape trademark application for sweets, based on its «mere technical function».
Some of these «Old Act» patents still exist and some are still being granted based on patent applications filed prior to October 1989.
Moreover, the specific disclosure requirements for patents where utility is based on sound prediction is the consideration an inventor pays for obtaining a patent without having proved actual utility as at the filing date of the patent application.
The Federal Court recently held, in Apotex Inc. v. Pfizer Inc. et al., 2016 FC 136, that there was no legal basis to invalidate an issued patent due to non-patent of an administrative fee while the application was pending.
Patents granted in Canada based on patent applications filed in the last couple of decades have been given terms of exclusivity of twenty years.
28 May 2004 — date of priority claimed in the application for registration of the Design (based on it being the date of the filing of a US design patent application).
Based on that narrower interpretation of the patent, it's possible to work around it by simply copying and compiling the structure detection and link generation code from the operating system (the Android Linkify library) to the applications that make use of it.
Generally, the patent prosecution highway pilot project permits patent applicants to accelerate the examination of a corresponding second patent application in a second jurisdiction (the «second application»), based on the allowance or registration of a corresponding first patent application in a first jurisdiction (the «first application»).
RoboReview uses AI and predictive analytics to automatically analyze draft patent applications for novelty, patentability, antecedent basis, claim support, term consistency and more.
PathWays provides highly accurate predictive analytics on USPTO art units based on the language used in a query, from a single word to an entire draft patent application.
TurboPatent, a company that develops applications to automate and streamline the patent protection process, is today introducing two artificial intelligence products for patent lawyers, RoboReview, a cloud - based product that analyzes draft patent applications, and RapidResponse, a product that assists lawyers in writing responses to office actions.
As of Friday, July 1, «the application size fee for electronically filed utility and provisional patent applications will be based on 75 % of the number of pages for the paper size equivalent of the specification (including claims) and drawings, and any external tables,» writes Bill Heinze.
There are important filing deadlines for any application for a Certificate of Supplementary Protection based on both the grant of the underlying patent but also the timing of market approval in Canada and in other jurisdictions.
However, most patent applications fail on the basis of novelty, rather than utility or functionality, so it can help to do a patent search to make sure that your invention is unique.
For an invention that appears to be patentable based upon search results (although attaining a Patent Grant is still not and can never be assured), we prepare a corresponding patent application and electronically file with the U.S. Patent OPatent Grant is still not and can never be assured), we prepare a corresponding patent application and electronically file with the U.S. Patent Opatent application and electronically file with the U.S. Patent OPatent Office.
A U.S. design patent application, or an international application, may claim priority based on an earlier - filed international application.
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