Sentences with phrase «patent for something»

Samsung even filed patents for it.

South Korean manufacturer Samsung was long rumoured to be working on an in - display fingerprint sensor and even filed a couple of patents for it.

Little did they know that Samsung had already been thinking of just that months earlier, and in fact, had already filed a design patent for it.

You can have a patent for something and then a couple of other companies violate that patent and then you get relief six years later, but by then it's too late.

Nike's not saying (but they did file a patent for something called «Power Lace Technology» back in 2011.

«It's great that I can make a virus that grows great in eggs and dies in a mouse, but that wouldn't do any good if we didn't, one, have a patent for it and, two, spread the word to a company that might be interested and say, «Hey, we can give you this technology if you want it,»» he says.

To get a patent for something, it's not enough that it's new, it's also got to be nonobvious: That is, theoretically, your invention can't be something that someone who knew everything that had been published in the field, but with no imagination, could figure out and make.

Generally speaking, you are granted two exclusive rights when you're given a patent for something: Barring certain exemptions, like some research and educational use, a patent gives the holder the exclusive right to use and sell his or her invention.

(Who, exactly, discovered the CRISPR technique and deserves the patents for it is a matter of intense legal wrangling.)

I am not a lawyer, but is it possible to file a patent for something that has existed for years, and then sue companies who are using the tech?

I have a feeling they might do away with the Haptic feedback page turn buttons, since they weren't able to market this device in a lot of countries because it could not get the patent for it.

Tell that to Nin since they have a patent for it.

He may get a patent for it.

Heinze quotes IBM Vice President of Technology and Strategy Irving Wladawsky - Berger, who says the U.S. Patent Office is lax and «any idiot can get a patent for something that should never be granted a patent.»

Any person who has invented or discovered a new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter may obtain a patent for it.

Herb did not include those names on his list of general types, but if you want to learn more, I suggest you click on the links to see the patents for yourself:

Is it possible for other people to be granted a patent for it if they are not the original inventor?

Provided the patent office doesn't award a patent for something useless or non-novel (and they're pretty good about not doing that) there's no way of knowing which invention will bring the most benefit.

It is obvious that Obama has never invented anything and has never obtained a patent for himself, so he really has no basis to speak on the patent system, which is designed to protect * inventors * like me.

Nowadays it just seems like you can scribble something on a napkin and claim / file a patent for it.

Does apple have patent for it?

Google has introduced Google Now to Chrome and Chrome OS, and while Siri has not yet made an appearance on Apple's OS X, Apple has filed a patent for it.