Sentences with phrase «patent over an idea»

Not exact matches

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

For example, one patent holder claims rights over the idea of sending video signals down optical fibres.

Despite mounting concern over making cheque cards and credit cards secure, no one has yet taken up an idea which Rolls - Royce is patenting.

However, innovation — the act of introducing new products or ideas to the world — is alive and well, as evidenced by over 100,000 patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

However, innovation — the act of introducing new products or ideas to the world — is alive and well, as evidenced by over 100,000 patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011.

In contrast, stocks are claims on real assets, such as land, factories and equipment, as well as the ideas, patents and all other capital that generate corporate profits and appreciate over time with the general level of prices.

Software patents are controversial in and of themselves, simply because while most agree that creators deserve rights over their ideas, there's often only one way to do things in software and the speed at which things move mean that a patent is more likely to hobble innovation than promote it — which is after all the intended point of the system in the first place.

So while the idea of organic virus resistant papayas and flood - proof rice may perk the ears of organic consumers, the reality is that in this country the corporate seed industry has systematic control over seed patents.

Over at TechDirt, a comment on the idea, now espoused by at least one patent lawyer, that multiple inventions of the same thing at the same time should be taken as evidence that the invention is «obvious» enough not to warrant a patent... [more]

«Reining in Remedies in Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jPatent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent cases» it might be preferable to avoid juries.

Then about 3 weeks ago came the water, when over the course of that week I ended up getting 7 different requests for legal help that I had to forward to our legal clinic (2 drug arrests, a speeding ticket, a landlord / tenant dispute, a juvenile issue, a car contract / lemon law question, and patent / business idea inquiry).

But over the years, one of the ideas he has come to embrace at the patent group is «if you can't measure it, you can't improve it.»

As we explained in that post, RCDI's patent not only claimed an obvious idea, but had been expanded so broadly that it effectively covered any kind of remote updating over the Internet.