Sentences with phrase «patent arms race»

The result is millions of dollars in legal fees and years in court, raising concerns among Silicon Valley innovators that the software patent arms race is beginning to take a costly toll.

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This has sparked an expensive arms race between technology giants as they try to outbid each other to stockpile on valuable patent portfolios up for grabs.

The rush to patent stretches of human DNA has parallels with the nuclear arms race, says the head of Britain's Medical Research Council, Dai Rees.

In recent years, patents have become a bugbear in Silicon Valley as a flood of low - quality patents has triggered a litigation arms race and given rise to a scourge of «trolls» — shell companies that don't make anything but use the threat of lawsuits to extort licenses from companies that do.