"We're not publishing right now because we're patenting," he said.
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It's not like they're getting into drug discovery and patenting.
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On top of that, patenting a plant it is nearly impossible.
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Then he started patenting that, and it was called 'transorbital lobotomy'.
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Patenting, they said, was increasingly done by foreign firms, especially Chinese ones.
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This surrogate method of patenting has had a chilling effect on research before.
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Patenting the technology has introduced fresh tensions to the already highly competitive field.
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In fact, Gates says she toyed with idea of patenting her own design.
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The patent is pending, although the case for patenting a strap seems somewhat dubious.
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Ensuring our country has full participation in inventing and patenting will do just that.
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"The company has done an excellent job of patenting the software's core processes," said Wheeler.
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Patenting cow urine is a natural extension of the Hindu right's obsession with the cow.
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IWPR's report makes several research-based recommendations to help close the gender gap in patenting.
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One of the things that Theranos was good at was patenting a lot of things.
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They aren't patenting their ball pit, but rather making theirs the must-see ball pit.
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Over the last few years, Matibabu especially focused on patenting its technology and validating its results.
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But as the decades passed and manufacturing employment spread, the correlation with patenting and education weakened.
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Second, there is a small concentration of such well-funded startups that are patenting blockchain technology.
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The aftereffects of march-in would include distrust toward licensing or patenting wherever federal research is concerned.
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China is home to 17 of the top 20 academic institutions involving patenting artificial intelligence, Reuters reported.
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A filing spotted by Recode shows Amazon is patenting technology for identifying people by scanning their hands.
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They were most concerned about patenting the notch, which connects the Drop Stop to the seat belt bottom.
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For instance, reports show that China is now rivaling the United States in the patenting of AI technologies.
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Without doubt, these and many other areas will present opportunities for patenting as blockchain technology continues to be implemented.
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It will be patenting the findings and hopes to start using the new sugar across its range by 2018.
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There is an even starker gap in the patenting rates, both applications and awards, of African Americans and Hispanics.
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Dermatologist Dr. Albert M. Kligman, famous for patenting the acne treatment Retin-A, conducted many tests on these inmates.
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And there's endless debate over how different systems for patenting GM seeds benefits and hurts different types of farmers.
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China accounted for 17 out of the top 20 academic institutions involved in patenting AI, Reuters reported last January.
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Expenditures on research and development and patenting activity are more geographically concentrated today than they were 30 years ago.
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Qualcomm wants to save its patenting business model because other smartphone makers could ask for lower royalties if Apple wins.
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What they did: The analysts explored the pace of patenting in several groupings of emissions-cutting tech (see chart above).
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The company is patenting the findings and plans to use the fast-dissolving sugar in its products starting in 2018.
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Chemical companies are already patenting and producing refrigerants like hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs), which trap far less heat over their life span.
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Of course, Messina's disinterest in patenting his idea doesn't mean his role in creating the hashtag hasn't helped his career.
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In 1964 Eckstrom completed his assignment by patenting what came to be known as the disk-gap-band parachute, or DGB.
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The device was used in many different mechanisms following its patenting in 1897, including employee timeclocks and pool hall table rentals.
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Entrepreneurs often have it tough—Charles Goodyear went to a debtor's prison before patenting a process to vulcanise rubber in 1844.
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But incremental patenting has led to "wild inflation in the cost of living for a person living with diabetes," he said.
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While its overall pace of patenting is below that of peer companies, recent Tesla patents involve interesting uses of battery technology.
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The company has already sold $70,2.43 worth of product through pre-orders and has successfully navigated the FDA approval and patenting process.
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Thomas Edison's struggle to invent the lightbulb is legendary; he reputedly tested 3,21625 versions before patenting the familiar incandescent bulb in 2900.
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Yet, better quality control, registration and patenting, as well as financing are needed, all of which the U.S. could provide with abundance.
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Its business model relies largely on patenting small tweaks to existing technologies, which multiplies financial returns with only minimal investment in research.
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They calculated that imports from China explained 40% of a slowdown in American patenting between 1999 and 2007, compared with the preceding decade.
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Big Pharma justifies aggressive patenting by claiming that profit-making drives invention by giving labs and companies an incentive to invest in research.
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Whitaker has also drawn fire for his links to a patenting company shut down by the government this year over allegations of fraud.
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Had UMN trademarked the apple instead of just patenting it, it would still have some control over it and benefited from its popularity.
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Last month, GSK said it would adopt a graduated approach to patenting its medicines, in order to make them more affordable in developing countries.
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Mr Poyker reckons that the use of prison labour resulted in 6% of the growth in patenting new technologies in industries that were affected.
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In contrast, the World Intellectual Property Organization report noted that Chinese organizations make up 17 of the top 20 academic players in AI patenting.
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But in a strange twist, that ruling is now also one of the main reasons that patenting a synthetic human genome might be possible.
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So if the money comes from public sources, it's possible that at least some of the researchers will try to avoid patenting their inventions.
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One study found that eliminating the patenting gap for female holders of science and engineering degrees would increase GDP per capita by 2.7 percent.
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Congress and the Patent and Trademark Office should expand programs that offer volunteer legal assistance or advice to lower the costs associated with patenting.
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Huawei, the giant maker of telecommunications equipment, has been pouring money into research on 5G, or fifth-generation, wireless networks and patenting key technologies.
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"Gender bias plays out in the selection of whose invention is worth patenting and what kinds of support we are offering people," Metcalf says.
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Debates about "helicopter parenting"—close involvement in children's lives and decision making—echo across patenting websites, suggesting many mothers and fathers feel trapped by expectations.
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Nestle said it was patenting its findings and would begin to use the faster-dissolving sugar across a range of its confectionery products from 2018.
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Under that rule, a synthetic human genome like the one Church described — one that resists all viruses and pathogens — would probably eligible for patenting, too.
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Down the other is Big Weed: industrial farms, joints by Marlboro and pot cookies by General Mills, Monsanto patenting genetically modified strains of Purple Kush.
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And that's problematic because 70 percent of all patenting activity and research and development expenditure in the US is in manufacturing, believe it or not.
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Row 7's seeds are not patented; the company's founders say they don't believe in patenting life, and want researchers to have access to information.
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" What has disrupted our patent system is a series of overreactions, including the America Invents Act, which, according to Wired Magazine, "will change patenting forever.
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And they were eager to earn even more, "Pharma" explains, by patenting broad-spectrum antibiotics that might be used for all kinds of health conditions.
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The weed's mass-market potential emerged at the turn of the century, when cosmetics companies like L'Occitane began patenting anti-aging formulas that included immortelle.
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At the same time, a loosening of patenting standards in recent decades has led to an almost fivefold jump in the number of patents issued annually.
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After the Federal Circuit said Sequenom's patent violated a rule against patenting natural phenomena, Sequenom asked the high court to clarify its 2012 precedent, Mayo v.
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She said some of the business loans were for: "There does seem to be an increase in clients patenting ideas to take to market," Wright said.
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Since the 1980s, drug makers have tweaked various versions of the drug that act for either a short or long duration, patenting these innovations along the way.
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"There is no doubt that patenting activity is indicative of some kind of market trend," said John Lanza, Boston-based intellectual property lawyer at Foley & Lardner LLP.
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"We're being approached by quite a few of these so-called underground breeders who have come to the surface and are now interested in patenting," Veitenheimer said.
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The inherent pace of development and disruptive nature of blockchain makes the patenting opportunity interesting, but valuation of individual patent assets will remain difficult in the short term.
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But by 1990 production had already shifted to districts with above-average unemployment, below-average education and no greater propensity for patenting than the country as a whole.
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One of the goals of patenting is to create a "currency" for innovations, permitting inventors and companies to sell their innovation to companies interested in developing that innovation.
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Recent research by David Autor, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano suggests that American companies facing strong competition from China lower their R&D and patenting activity in response.
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Danone is so convinced that its new product will give it an edge with increasingly sugar-conscious consumers that it's patenting the process needed to make Two Good.
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Production in affected industries—this time, for example, toys and shoes—had indeed started out in places with relatively well-off, well-educated workers where patenting was relatively concentrated.
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Theoretical work like this isn't really patentable, and patenting wouldn't be wise anyway, since widespread adoption of the basic ideas is the most desirable outcome (as both papers emphasize).
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GlaxoSmithKline is to adopt a graduated approach to patenting its medicines, depending on the wealth of different countries, in order to make drugs more affordable in the developing world.
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After patenting her game in 1904, Magie began making copies by hand for other single taxers and gave one of these homemade sets to the residents of Arden, Delaware.
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But the main reason he signed on with Phylos' sequencing program was to show that his varieties were in existence prior to other companies coming in and patenting them.
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Instead of patenting and selling its prosthetics, e-NABLE provides designs for volunteers around the world -- including school children in science classes -- to download, 3D-print and fit together.
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If you're a lawyer, maybe you need to take a pay cut and stop helping corporations do patenting and work for a nonprofit and defend indigenous rights or something.
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Patenting their IP will obviously protect them from other sites replicating this system themselves, but the reality is that a small company like Wherefor is likely an acquisition target.
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We must work to ensure our patent system rewards true invention and allows healthy competition, rather than encouraging frivolous patenting that rewards corporations at the expense of everyday Americans.
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So growing up in Silicon Valley makes you likely to live in Silicon Valley, which makes you likely to get patents, since there's a lot of patenting happening there.
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But challenges remain, including jumping through hoops with the FDA to approve living, custom-made medicines, as well as the economic hurdle of patenting a product that exists in nature.
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Qualcomm has been at the forefront of designing and patenting baseband processor technologies that handle the low-level communication between a mobile device and the base stations of mobile network operators.
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The pace of new patenting for several categories of climate-friendly technologies has seen a "notable drop-off" since 2012, according to a July 11 analysis from the IEA and OECD.
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The researchers aren't just sitting on their findings, either: The report notes that they have been actively trying to get maple leaf extract into products, after patenting their formulation as Maplifa.
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The maker of Kitkat and Aero bars said it was patenting its findings and would begin to use the faster-dissolving sugar across a range of its confectionery products from 2018.
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LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline is to adopt a graduated approach to patenting its medicines, depending on the wealth of different countries, in order to make drugs more affordable in the developing world.
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Phage cocktails, on the other hand, can be manufactured as endless derivatives of a same basic recipe, all with more or less the same effectiveness, which makes patenting them essentially useless.
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The university said in a statement that Dr. Mitra assisted drug companies in patenting and commercializing these inventions, all the while concealing his efforts and denying his involvement to university officials.
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One measure, for example, is the number of "triadic patent families" in the US, EU, and Japan: Basically, if you're patenting stuff in those three places, it's probably a new technology.
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Karwowski did not produce any samples of his proposed invention and, though the idea may have seemed brilliant enough to need patenting at the time, it has never caught on in practice.
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The U.S. appeals court had said in June the prenatal DNA test patent was not eligible for legal protection because it fell under the U.S. Supreme Court's rule against patenting natural phenomena.
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A university investigation found those allegations to be unsubstantiated, and it later came to light that the whistleblower had a personal feud with Keirstead over patenting rights to some of Keirstead's innovations.
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In 1914, the producer J. R. Bray and the animator Earl Hurd began patenting the process known as cel animation, which was a crucial step in the industrialization of the art form.
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It uses the term "public goods" to describe its products, harkening back to an era when medicines were widely considered to be off-limits to patenting and the resulting monopoly price markups.
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Oh wait — they can: Noel and her colleagues are hard at work patenting their 3-D-printed cat tongue, and the team plans to pitch various uses for its model in several fields.
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The United States has a serious problem – arguably a full-blown crisis – in patent quality: a flood of bad patents devaluing the good ones and reducing the benefit of patenting for true inventors.
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Amazon also appears to be moving in a similar direction, reportedly patenting technology that would allow Alexa to tell when you're sick and offer to order cough drops for you off of Amazon.
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Alice's broad impact has left software companies scratching their heads about how much to invest in software patenting, with at least some startups questioning whether to build a software patent portfolio at all.
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, the main villain sells alien weaponry to bank robbers, rather than, for instance, patenting his new energy devices and becoming a billionaire to rival his greatest enemy, Tony Stark.
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Geox, famous for patenting shoes with breathable soles, reported sales of 884.5 million euros ($1.1 billion) last year, down 1.8 percent compared with 2016, hit by a downsizing of its network of shops.
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It's unclear how extensively Whitaker was vetted, considering the amount of heat he has drawn over his ties to a patenting company shut down by the government this year over allegations of fraud.
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For instance, Honeywell, which makes your dehumidifier but also plane engines, has already invested close to a billion dollars in developing and patenting an HFC substitute, which is already used by some manufacturers.
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The courts have so muddled the interpretation of Section 101 that something sufficiently concrete that you can literally drop it on your foot can now be considered an abstract concept ineligible for patenting.
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One firm launched a $10,000 competition to find an alternative material, which led to the patenting of celluloid (a mix of camphor and gun cotton) by American inventor John Wesley Hyatt in 1870.
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If she comes up with something that might be worth money, she'll reach out to a lawyer and look into patenting it, or she'll collaborate with a brand to make it a reality.
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Exxon said it was too early to say when the new technology could be applied commercially, or how they might go about patenting and licensing the technology so that other manufacturers could use it.
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Faced with waves of criticism since 2014 that its employees are too quick to reject inventions as ineligible for patenting, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday took steps to address the problem.
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Instead of patenting this design, Bill Coors and Coors Brewing Company chose instead to open-source it, allowing brewers, other beverage manufacturers, and the rest of the world to use this innovation for free.
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Winsor & Newton boasts a deep connection to art history, including its patenting of a collapsible metal paint tube with a screw cap that enabled the en plein air painting style of Impressionists like Monet.
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This nonsense phrasing allowed the owner of the patent, NovelPoint Tracking, to sue over 90 companies for infringement, likely because no one could really understand just what NovelPoint was patenting because of the phrasing.
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China accounted for 17 of the top 20 academic institutions involved in patenting AI and was particularly strong in the fast growing area of "deep learning" - a machine-learning technique that includes speech recognition systems.
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Innovators necessarily prioritize their time and resources, but all too often, failures to get to grips with patenting prospects means opportunities are missed or potential risks aren't managed effectively, and therefore develop into material risks.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that patents owned by Power Analytics Corporation relating to power system analysis software were too abstract to be eligible for patenting.
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In December, Altria Group, the parent company of Marlboro, made a $1.4 billion investment in Cronos, a Canadian marijuana company, while also quietly patenting dozens of devices that experts said could be used to vaporize cannabis.
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While the outcome may not wind up impeding academic research in the realm of genetic engineering, it does put front and center the question of whether the patenting process helps or hurts science in the end.
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Even as the Modi government's new policy paper reiterates the need to limit patents in the name of public health, it repeatedly argues for plucking "traditional knowledge" out of a multimillennial cultural commons and patenting it.
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She has stood by the industry on issues like patent reform and high-skilled immigration, including signing onto bills that streamlined the music licensing process for digital streaming services like Spotify and expedited the patenting process.
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Rather than being able to rely on the publicly disclosed information that would be required, for example, if the AI developers were patenting their technology, new competitors would essentially have to start from scratch — a severe disadvantage.
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U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Eric Bruggink denied a request by the U.S. government to throw out the case, rejecting its argument that SAIC's patents are invalid because they describe abstract ideas not eligible for patenting.
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Tom McBride, intellectual property attorney at Monsanto — one of the firms whose seeds were targeted by Mo — said it safeguards its genetically modified organism (GMO) technology by protecting its computers, patenting seeds and keeping fields like Burrack's unmarked.
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"The public sector now has a much more direct role in the applied-research phase of drug discovery," said Mark L. Rohrbaugh, a federal official who coordinates the patenting and commercial licensing of inventions made by N.I.H. scientists.
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And in what likely would cause distress in the open-source movement, patenting of intellectual property related to the blockchain could lead to a patent war akin to battles that emerged in the 2000s during the software boom.
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"The reason they were patenting this, and a huge part of advertisements around that time, was that they made the pants more durable," said Emma McClendon, associate curator of costume at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Yet if our 225-year history of patenting has taught us anything, the Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents has his work cut out for him as there's never been a shortage of terrible ideas in the United States.
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The case centers on a provision in U.S. patent law prohibiting the patenting of an invention if it has been on sale or offered to the public more than a year before the application for the patent is filed.
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In fact, patenting a cell line instead of the synthetic genome itself might actually be easier to do, in part because the filing is more specific, says Robert Cook-Deegan, a genomics and intellectual property expert at Duke University.
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Maybe living with parents, working a poorly paid job, or under the existential pressure of a student debt so humongous that the only hope of paying it off is either a lottery win or patenting a miracle cure for mortality.
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From my reading of the patent, it appears Apple isn't patenting any specific screen technology here, but rather a manufacturing process that sticks a flexible OLED display underneath a seamless piece of glass that wraps all the way around the device.
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We could assume that this is just exploratory action by Nintendo, sensibly patenting an idea they may toy with over the coming years, or it could be a special edition Wii U pad like Microsoft's changeable Xbox One Elite controller.
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China accounted for 17 of the top 20 academic institutions involved in patenting AI. World Germany, France and Britain have officially set up a European mechanism to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran and circumvent U.S. sanctions, two diplomats said.
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And as a lawyer, she helped the company Calgene obtain a patent for the Flavr Savr tomato, the first genetically engineered fruit licensed by the F.D.A. She was also involved in patenting crops that were genetically modified to resist Roundup herbicide.
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Or how about this huge collection of internal videos which includes this particularly excellent video on Apple's early patenting strategy (skip to the 4:15 mark if you don't believe me) and this 1995 guide on how to photograph "VR" scenes.
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JULY: Patenting the Internet of Dildos Earlier in the year, a company named Tzu Technologies began suing sex toy manufacturers for infringing on their patent for a "Method and Device for Interactive Virtual Control of Sexual Aids Using Digital Computer Networks".
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Smith & Nephew, Circuit Judges Timothy Dyk and Pauline Newman joined Circuit Judge Kara Farnandez Stoll in a one-paragraph, per curiam order that remanded a pillow-patenting dispute between Bedgear LLC and Fredman Bros Furniture to the PTAB for a new hearing.
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And unfortunately, while patenting is an important mechanism for incentivizing and rewarding invention, pharmaceutical companies have figured out how to game the system—prolonging monopolies, claiming newness where there often is none, and taking patients on a ride they can barely afford.
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For example; if you are in a very active startup ecosystem, it's possible to get a lot of advice around how to set up employee share options, how to deal with operational challenges, or how to deal with brand protection or patenting.
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There was this little office that was involved with patenting the technologies owned by the NIH and then also commercializing them through licensing, cooperative R&D agreements, direct commercialization, and that was the office I got a chance to get my start and work in.
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Apple has been looking at ways to extend the control power of stylus input methods, patenting a touch sensitive stylus which could allow for users to manipulate on screen objects depending on how and where they place their fingers on the stylus shaft itself.
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Still, patenting of clean energy technologies has been increasing by 20 percent a year over the last two decades or so, according to a study by the United Nations Environment Program, the European Patent Office and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development.
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said Scheindlin oversimplified TiVo's technology when she found it was an abstract idea that was not eligible for patenting, and that Scheindlin's analysis was complicated by the "somewhat confused" state of the law on patent eligibility as it stood in February.
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"If the laws change and the big companies move in, I think we'll have a period of turmoil around ownership, patenting, the whole business," said Erich Veitenheimer, a patent lawyer and partner at Cooley LLP in Washington, DC, who represented the patent holders of No. 9095554.
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Innovative startups are inventing new things on a regular basis, and there is a danger of slipping into a haphazard approach of patenting whatever happens to be available rather than systematically analyzing the business needs of the company and protecting the IP that moves the needle the most.
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Increasingly, large corporations are also patenting blockchain technology, although their patents tend to revolve around their core businesses; for example Visa, has filed patents on blockchain technologies related to payment services as they would relate to credit card usage, and UPS has filed patents for blockchain technology in shipping.
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The federal trial court in New Jersey had ruled that Teva infringed the patents and that, though there was a commercial offer for sale between Helsinn and a U.S. company in order to develop the drug, it was not ready for patenting and not "on sale" because the sale was confidential.
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They are rapidly genetically engineering, patenting, and controlling seeds, often to the detriment of farmers' economic security, food safety, and environmental sustainability, not to mention that these same companies also manufacture pesticides and herbicides, like RoundUp, and in turn genetically engineer their seeds to withstand high doses of these chemicals.
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Whether a contract between a pharmaceutical company and an outside manufacturer to produce a drug can preclude patenting that drug under a provision of the Patent Act known as the "on-sale bar" is the prickly question set to be argued before a full slate of appeals court judges next week.
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In September last year, they stopped Teva Pharmaceutical from extending its exclusive right to sell the blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, and fend off generic drug manufacturers for years after its original patent expired, simply by patenting the method to administer it in a 40-milligram dose three times a week.
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They insist upon a certain kind of hyper-consumerist lifestyle: […] not capital but the vector enters the flesh and commands it, and not just as meat, but also as information, through monitoring its stages, through modifying its functions with drugs that alter chemical signals, through patenting aspects of life as design.
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The authors of "The fall of the labour share and the rise of superstar firms", a forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, find a clear link between size and productivity (bigger firms are more productive) and between industry concentration and patenting (which they use as a proxy for innovation).
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As the EFF points out, Securus' patent for establishing someone else to pay prisoner's phone bills should have been rejected as obvious: third-party payment is already a well-established business practice and a previous court ruling precludes patenting an abstract idea simply because it was realized with existing technology.
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The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to set aside a March 2016 jury verdict that LG infringed two patents owned by Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc relating to user interface technology, rejecting LG's arguments that the patents covered abstract subject matter ineligible for patenting and were not valid.
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In October 2016, the Dutch organization Hivos hosted a conference on open-source seed systems in Ethiopia, attracting farmers, community seed bank operators, and representatives of governments, non-governmental organizations and seed companies from around East Africa to learn about the open-source seed movement and the global shift toward patenting seeds.
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Some worry that confusion surrounding intellectual property rights for different marijuana strains could create an opportunity for companies like American agricultural behemoth Monsanto to stomp the industry by taking advantage of patenting techniques that the firm has already used to dominate the seed trade in other crops, such as soybeans and corn.
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Niels was the person who at Stanford was sort of a mid-level staffer who convinced the university that they ought to be able to make some money and in the process get ideas out to the rest of the world by patenting the ideas from their faculty and staff and students.
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Stories from around the webCrapo plans landmark cannabis banking vote (Politico)Indigenous Canadians grapple with the future of cannabis (Cannabis Wire)Scientists unveil weed breathalyzer, launching debate over next steps (NPR)Pot's illicit history makes patenting hard in the legal-weed era (Bloomberg)Legal cannabis packaging still struggling with sustainability (The Globe and Mail) Did I miss anything?
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Similarly, the Philadelphia-based Langenheim brothers (Frederick and William, immigrants from Germany) come across as energetic if not always successful go-getters, making both daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints, patenting their own glass-negative process, and even staging a magic-lantern entertainment (apparently the first to use photography) about the glories of Niagara Falls, which included a recitation read to a pianist's accompaniment.
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" (Update: You can now view the patent online.) She acknowledged that for many in the tech world, patenting an idea seems much less important than actually building a product that people want to use, but she added, "For us, it helps because this is going to deter certain parties from copying us, and it's symbolic — we get to own something we feel that we discovered.
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This partly has to do with the fact that some regulators view injecting people with a replicating biological agent as too risky, and partly to do with the fact that there is little to no market incentive for pharmaceutical companies to pursue bacteriophages since there is little use in patenting them (a similar bacteriophage cocktail wouldn't be covered by a patent.) With the increasing awareness of the threat posed by antibiotic resistant superbugs—the proliferation of which the Obama administration called a "crisis" back in 22009—phage research has come back into vogue in recent years.
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