Sentences with phrase «significant number of patent»

A significant number of patent fees were topped up during this period.

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Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

«Over the past five years, our faculty has increasingly engaged in entrepreneurial and technology transfer activity — with significant increases in the number of U.S. and foreign patents issued, technology inventions licensed and start - up companies formed,» says UMSOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor.

Following this Notice of Allowance NAI intends to seek a significant number of additional patent claims to further broaden its intellectual property protection.

We've been told after a significant amount of work that this is may be a landmark patent in the telephony arena and we feel quite comfortable that other people, while they may have various pieces of what we're doing, won't be able to offer a total solution for inbound and outbound calling and telephone number management.

Significant research and development work, documented by an increasing number of patent applications in the field is going on.

Our attorneys, a significant number of which hold specialized or advanced degrees in technical fields, protect IP rights from filing patent and trademark applications to defending those rights in court and before government agencies.

A significant portion of his practice relates to complex cases that involve the interface of intellectual property and antitrust, especially in relation to standard essential patents and he has been involved in a significant number of the leading cases in that area.

In addition, he has handled a significant number of disputes before US administrative agencies, including 337 actions before the US International Trade Commission and proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board.

Some stakeholders GAO interviewed said that the increase in 2011 was most likely influenced by the anticipation of changes in the 2011 Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which made several significant changes to the U.S. patent system, including limiting the number of defendants in a lawsuit, causing some plaintiffs that would have previously filed a single lawsuit with multiple defendants to break the lawsuit into multiple lawsuits.

I expect a significant number of law firms to take advantage of the LDP provisions, and we should see solicitors, barristers, patent and trade mark attorneys, legal executives and licensed conveyancers as co-owners of law firms by mid to late 2008.

The appointment is significant because Lee used to hold the title «Head of Patents and Patent Strategy» at Google, (s goog) where she issued a number of blog posts like this one calling for reform of the patent sPatent Strategy» at Google, (s goog) where she issued a number of blog posts like this one calling for reform of the patent spatent system.