Sentences with phrase «patents granted this year»

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In recent years the value of patents that have been monetized through acquisitions or licensing has neared $ 200 billion, and yet that represents a tiny portion of all patent grants.

Because a patent grants the inventor a monopoly on his or her invention for relatively long period of time (between 14 and 20 years depending upon the invention), patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office patent grants the inventor a monopoly on his or her invention for relatively long period of time (between 14 and 20 years depending upon the invention), patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

Granted patents have a lifespan of 20 years.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

Only Californians received more patents last year, and Washington institutions were among the largest recipients of medical research grants.

Conflicts of interest comprise financial interests, activities, and relationships within the past 3 years including but not limited to employment, affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria or payment, speaker's bureaus, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical equipment, or patents planned, pending, or issued.

Design patents last 15 years from the date you are granted the patent.

Under this initiative, FinTech patents can be expected to be granted in as quickly as six months, compared to at least two years for normal applications.

«This first patent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen exppatent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen expPatent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen exppatent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen explains.

When a patent is granted, it offers protection for 20 years from when the application was filed.

This year marks the 175th anniversary of the granting of the UK patent to Cooke and Wheatstone for the first commercially practical electric telegraph.

The most significant right that the patent offers is a sort of monopoly: In exchange for explaining your invention to the community at large, you are granted a right to be the only person to be able to manufacture or directly profit from that invention for a certain length of time — usually 20 years or so.

SEATTLE — Apparently ending several years of uncertainty, an official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) revealed here today that the government intends to grant patents on expressed sequence tags (ESTs), human DNA sequences of up to a few hundred base pairs in length that can be used to identify and detect the expression of specific genes.

Less than a year after patenting a process that could improve stripping greenhouse gasses from industrial emissions, a University of Alabama engineering professor was recently granted another patent that uses a different solvent to accomplish the same goal.

Typically, the standard of care is that each drug is used sequentially or in combination, so that each new drug represents a monopoly with exclusivity granted by patent protection for many years.»

For several years, Collins and former National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus have tried to persuade PTO leaders they should not grant patents on simple gene discoveries.

The draft makes clear that the three panelists would like to see a reduction in the 5 - year extensions granted on pharmaceutical patents about to expire.

A software patent granted on a fundamental idea, and held for the 20 years of the GATT proposal mandates, is likely to seriously delay innovation from that idea.

WARF, the nonprofit foundation that patents and commercializes campus inventions, has granted the university $ 58.5 million for the 2015 - 16 academic year.

Conflicts of interest comprise financial interests, activities, and relationships within the past 3 years including but not limited to employment, affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria or payment, speaker's bureaus, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical equipment, or patents planned, pending, or issued.

It took almost a year for the patent to finally be granted.

A year later, in 1896, he was granted the world's first patent for a system of wireless telegraphy, and shortly after formed The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company Ltd..

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For Midland County, population 135,000, that means income growth of 35 percent between 2006 and 2011 and more than 12 percent of households earning $ 150,000 or more a year, although the number of patents granted (18) was distinctly below average.

Usually the patent is applied for and granted significantly before FDA approval, sometimes as many as 10 years before.

I never heard another word about it until the patent was granted a year or two later.

For instance, the Arbitration Ordinance (AO) was amended in 2013 to allow expressly Hong Kong courts to enforce interim relief granted by emergency arbitrators (whether made in or outside Hong Kong), and this year the AO has been further amended to specifically provide for the arbitrability of intellectual property rights disputes (a key development given China's increase in patent applications) and to expressly provide that third - party funding will be permissible for arbitration and mediation.

There are significant differences between «Old Act» and «New Act» patents, in addition to the numbering scheme, including their term — 17 years from grant for Old Act patents and 20 years from the filing date for New Act patents.

Patents granted in Canada based on patent applications filed in the last couple of decades have been given terms of exclusivity of twenty years.

obtaining a patent is lengthy (from application to grant will take years), usually requires specialist legal input, and is expensive

«Through the patent system, the government grants a patent holder the private right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented innovation for generally a 20 - year term.

Much of the case law on double patenting arises from «Old Act» patents, patents filed prior to 1989 when the term of protection was 17 years from the date the patent was granted.

Design patents last 14 years from the date granted.

technologies and growing patent field; the number of Dutch patents granted via the EPO system grew significantly in 2016 (apparently a new record number and the strongest growth in 10 years).

What was the basis for the PTAB's earlier decisions this year to grant immunity to state university patent owners such as the University of Florida?

The Patent Office promises that the whole Post Grant Review process will take no more than one year (after first taking no more than 3 months to decide whether to approve the Petition and commence the process).

Implications of the Controller's Ruling Compulsory licenses can be granted within a relatively short time - period following application (as little as seven months in the Nexavar case), and applications can be made three years after sealing of the patent in India.

The same legislation also provides for the granting of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), which give additional patent protection of up to five years where there has been a regulatory delay in allowing patented medicines to be sold on the EU market.

Proposed remedies included fee - shifting, which would undercut the economic imbalance that makes trolling so lucrative, and the creation of expedited review procedures to challenge the validity of so - called «business method» patents, which the Patent Office began issuing by the thousands after 1998, and which can grant 20 - year monopolies on basic business practices.

According to the 2016 Annual Report of the Europe Patent Office (EPO), HUAWEI ranks the 2nd in Europe with 2390 patent applications, up 2 places from last year, and second only to Philips NV; and HUAWEI is the 7th with 924 granted applicaPatent Office (EPO), HUAWEI ranks the 2nd in Europe with 2390 patent applications, up 2 places from last year, and second only to Philips NV; and HUAWEI is the 7th with 924 granted applicapatent applications, up 2 places from last year, and second only to Philips NV; and HUAWEI is the 7th with 924 granted applications.

Even IBM's infamous patent application on shorter meetings, rejected under Section 101, would now be eligible for a 20 - year government - granted monopoly.

Just early this week, a patent that has been granted to Apple even appeared to confirm the idea that the 10th year anniversary iPhone is going to sport an edge - to - edge OLED display that would cover the entire front of the handset, leaving no room for bezels to be part of the physical design.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dPatent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public dpatent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

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This Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Tim Cook's company a patent for what Apple could be preparing for its next flagship smartphone after this year's 10th anniversary iPatent and Trademark Office granted Tim Cook's company a patent for what Apple could be preparing for its next flagship smartphone after this year's 10th anniversary ipatent for what Apple could be preparing for its next flagship smartphone after this year's 10th anniversary iPhone.

Then the following year, the tech giant was once again granted another patent for an Apple Pencil working with an iPhone and even on a MacBook Pro.

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