Sentences with phrase «threatened by a patent»

In each case, the business was threatened by a patent owner asserting a highly abstract software patent.

Often, companies that get sued or threatened by patent trolls will end up paying a licensing fee, even though they don't think the patents are legitimate.

This procedure allowed us to challenge a patent that was being used to demand licenses from individual podcasters, even though EFF itself had never been threatened by the patent owner.

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If a business does come under attack by a troll threatening a lawsuit over potential patent infringement, the business owner needs a less costly way to fight back.

Medical professionals argued that the patents threatened patient health by restricting access to the test.

But the predictability they did hope for could be threatened by an evolving policy on the patentability of gene sequences, which is emerging from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington.

The case highlights concerns that a network of individual gene patents could threaten the future of personalized medicine and whole - genome sequencing by blocking companies and clinicians from reporting a patient's genetic risk factors for different diseases.

Trolls — plaintiffs who don't make products themselves but make a living threatening accidental infringers — may be hardest hit by the judiciary's turn against software patents.

There's a derogatory term in Silicon Valley for companies that amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits: «patent trolls.»

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This played into the hands of patent trolls, who were able to claim the mantle of «reform» for themselves by supporting the weaker legislation, which offered only cosmetic changes and none of the measures (like fee - shifting or discovery reform) that would threaten their operations.

On the other side, trial lawyers and the patent trolls are expected to push to water it down, in part by warning that it will threaten «innovation.»

Negotiations over how to appropriately address patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits — have repeatedly bedeviled Senate staffers working on the issue.

Obama's words came after the House had passed a bill aimed at slaying patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits.

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We've long been concerned about «patent trolls» — companies that don't produce anything themselves but buy patents, then make their money by threatening and even suing companies that are producing products.

Ramirez's remarks suggest the federal government is finally getting serious about the harm caused by patent trolls — shell firms that don't make anything but amass old patents to threaten lawsuits against productive companies.

San Francisco, California — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won a court ruling today affirming that an infamous podcasting patent used by a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Upatent used by a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Upatent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (UPatent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

This insurance is exactly what the name implies: customers pay a fee in order to receive legal assistance if and when they are threatened or sued by a patent owner.

The EFF also asserts that bad patents threaten free expression by allowing the patent holder to threaten anyone using the technology for any purpose, whether or not the use causes any harm to the patent holder, is used for non-commercial purposes, or the user had any idea they were even...

Reclaim Invention asks universities to focus on by bringing their inventions to the public, rather than selling or licensing them to patent assertion entities whose sole business model is threatening other innovators with patent lawsuits.