Toyota is adding some 2,0603 patents related to electric motors, 2,020 patents related to PCUs, 7,550 patents related to system controls, 1,320 engine transaxle patents, 2,200 charger patents and 2,380 additional fuel cell patents — bringing the total of fuel cell-related patents to 8,060.
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In the U.S., patents come in two main flavors: utility patents and design patents.
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We can do this by excluding duplicative patents, expired patents, patents not in force in major economic markets, and patents for base station, infrastructure, and other innovations not relevant to handset makers.
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This will have implications for copyrights, patents, design patents and trademarks.
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Also, design patents often can be obtained much quicker than utility patents.
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Many software developers are instinctively opposed to patents: software engineers generally dislike patents, and believe in the open source community and collaboration unhindered by patents.
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When discussing patents, the focus is often on utility patents, but design patents should also be considered as part of a well-rounded intellectual property strategy.
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Its researchers submit more patents than any other university on the list, and those patents are frequently cited by outside researchers in their own patents and papers.
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Then they identified the total number of patents filed by each organization and evaluated each candidate on factors including how many patents it filed, how often those applications were granted, how many patents were filed to global patent offices in addition to local authorities, and how often the patents were cited by other patents.
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PAEs essentially use patents as weapons, so the fewer patents they have, the better.
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Foxconn also files its patents in America, whose standards are more demanding than China's, and files lots of full "invention" patents as opposed to less important "utility" patents.
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Xiaomi said that it has over 3,600 patents registered in China and 3,500 patents abroad.
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The impact of these patents is similarly simple: Valid patents generally benefit innovation and economic growth.
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Scientists don't always enforce patents for their work, and some never file for patents at all.
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Design patents also have an unusual feature that makes them especially valuable compared to other patents.
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Linear Labs currently has 50 filed patents, 21 of which are issued, with 29 patents pending.
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In 2019, Samsung was granted 9,413 utility patents; made 8,668 utility patent applications; and received 605 design patents, while IBM was granted 9,190 utility patents and made 8,292 utility patent applications.
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Generally, there are two types of patents at issue in terms of VR: (1) "utility" patents protect the way a technology works and (2) "design" patents protect the way an article looks.
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Andersen noted that we're talking about U.S. patents as well as European and Chinese patents, for example.
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The patents on LSD have expired, and psilocybin, there are no patents as far as I know.
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Patents. Patents provide the protection for people to reap the rewards of their inspiration and hard work.
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We strongly believe that the patents are invalid and that Micron's products do not infringe the patents.
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Over 99.8 percent of all active patents and 82 percent of litigated patents never face an IPR.
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Innovators are subject to multiple challenges to their patents, as the board has made it very easy to harass or challenge owners of patents, regardless of whether the patents are good or bad.
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So, about a third of all patents and half of software and business method patents are likely invalid.
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Scientists don't always choose to enforce patents for their discoveries, and some never file for patents at all.
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Analysts also consulted "Patent Citations," gauging the rate at which a university's patents are cited by other patents.
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Ironically, patents are intended to promote innovation — by denying patents we actually risk slowing the rate of computer innovation.
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The OIN acquires patents and then licenses them freely to members, which agree not to assert their own patents.
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With 1,529 patents, Huawei has twice as many essential 5G patents as its nearest American competitor, Qualcomm, with 757.
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The board immediately engaged in overregulation and has invalidated thousands of patents in an overzealous hunt for bad patents.
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But "theft" of patents is less clear-cut, since U.S. patents generally do not apply outside the United States.
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It's not the first time someone has challenged the Redcode patents and each time our patents have held fast.
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All LTE-capable phones use some form of these patents, and such patents are routinely cross-licensed between technology companies.
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The Polycom deal will give Mitel a combined portfolio of over 2,1.963 patents and more than 500 patents pending, Mitel says.
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There's the tiny problem of these patents not actually being patents anymore, since the plaintiff failed pay the appropriate registration fees.
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The STRONGER Patents Act will help level the playing field so that patents are not improperly taken away from their owners.
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Cole has co-authored 26 patents related to virtual reality and stereoscopic technology and three patents in adaptive computer learning technology.
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Qualcomm will also not acquire NXP's standard essential NFC patents as well as some of NXP's non-standard essential NFC patents.
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Such patents are cited 30 percent to 40 percent more often than patents invented by female-only or male-only teams.
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Many just buy patents at auctions of companies undergoing bankruptcy, without any intention of using the patents for their intended purposes.
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Patents is also very important for us to defend our own business, so it's not that I sell my patents. Right.
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That is what happened to McRo patents directed to automatic three-dimensional lip-synchronization for animated characters, to Synopsys patents directed to automated electronic circuit logic design, and to Thales Visionix patents directed to helmet-mounted inertial object tracking.
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The company now has 60 patents and patents-pending on its home entertainment system – something of value for a future acquirer, perhaps.
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Design patents can provide significant value as a supplement to utility patents or as a replacement when utility patent protection is unavailable.
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Trolls can buy technology patents for as little as a dollar, then use the patents to extract settlements from well-funded companies.
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They also have 18 IPs covering hardware, software, database management and more, including utility patents and models, design patents, trademarks and copyrights.
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Retro Patents turns the patents for some of the most popular tech gadgets and start-ups into stylized prints for your home.
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These pivotal innovations are labeled as Standards Essential Patents (SEPs), a designation for individual patents that are essential to a technology standard.
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Otto transferred its patents to Uber through Apparate, and Uber has also used Apparate to move its own self-driving vehicle patents offshore.
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Still, with more than 42,000 patents giving it the largest number of mobile technology patents, it stands by the value-based licensing model.
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By the end of 2015, the U.S. Patent Office had issued more than 9.2 million utility patents, but only about 746,000 design patents.
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According to the regulator, Qualcomm licenses too many patents, forcing smartphone makers to pay expensive royalties for patents they might not even need.
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In major European countries, the basic compound patents for Alimta expired in December 2015 but its vitamin regimen patents run until June 2021.
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NPEs do not use patents to innovate or support new products; they make money by acquiring patents and then suing others for infringement.
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"Patents owners who don't have the wherewithal to withstand serial challenges to the validity of their patents just can't license them," said David Pridham, chief executive of Dominion Harbor, a firm that owns and attempts to license former Eastman Kodak Co patents.
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Moreover, it upholds biotech and pharmaceutical patents nearly three times as often as it upholds electrical and computer patents and almost four times as often as it upholds mechanical and business method patents, categories that trolls often use to establish patent traps.
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"We often seek patents for technology we never implement, and patents should not be taken as an indication of future plans," a spokeswoman said.
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Launching today, Retro Patents lets you buy prints of famous patents to hang on your office wall, or at home, if that's your thing.
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In medicine, rafts of patents obstruct research into treatments such as a malaria vaccine; the costs of just identifying the relevant patents is prohibitive.
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Yeesh.And of course, patents are patents, and we've seen some strange ones that have never come to life beyond crappy black-and-white sketches.
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Because the patents concern software, Apple could make changes to its software to avoid the patents and still be able to sell its phones.
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Unlike utility patents, which cover "function," design patents protect "ornamental appearance" (akin to a trade dress style of protection), a term not easily defined.
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I decided to spin through Google Patents and gather just a few of the most clownish patents on the books, because I hate myself.
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Microbiome patents are heating up too: While fewer than 20 microbiome patents were filed in 2013, 140 were filed in 2017, CB Insights said.
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The tribe will lease the patents back to Allergan, and will receive $15 million in annual royalties as long as the patents remain valid.
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Amgen claimed its patents covered a broad range of antibodies that bind to PCSK9, while Sanofi and Regeneron argued such broad patents were invalid.
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With an increasing number of design patents on the market, courts should expect a corresponding uptick in the filing of cases asserting these patents.
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LOT works by having member companies sign an agreement wherein if any member's patents fall into the hands of a PAE, the other members of LOT automatically get a license to those patents — inoculating LOT members from getting sued for infringement using those patents.
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But the agency also said 56 percent of patents challenged at PTAB are upheld, in part because the court frequently declines requests to review patents.
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If their patents fall into the hands of a patent assertion entity, the other members of the community get a free license to those patents.
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Apple has denied the claims that it violated Qualcomm's battery life patents and alleged that Qualcomm's patents were invalid, a common move in such cases.
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"Apple began seeking those patents years before Qualcomm began seeking the patents it asserts against Apple in this case," the company wrote in its complaint.
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The three judges decided that the Broad patents are different enough from the ones the University of California applied for that the Broad patents stand.
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Apple making graphics chips in house would infringe on Imagination's patents, the latter maintained, but Apple wouldn't agree to licensing some of their graphic patents.
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Eight companies had more patents granted during that year, including Samsung, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and IBM, which led the table with 9,100 patents granted in 2018.
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The three patents found to be infringed in this case represent just a small fraction of Qualcomm's valuable portfolio of tens of thousands of patents.
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In rare instances, such as when Myriad Genetics used its patents for BRCA genes to halt breast cancer research, patents have indeed stymied scientific progress.
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We made no attempt to judge the quality of the patents owned, nor did we give extra weight to companies with more patents than others.
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Toyota is offering its powertrain technology patents royalty-free through 2020; royalty-free access to its hydrogen production and supply patents as yet never expires.
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Once it owned Humira, AbbVie protected it with a thicket of patents — roughly 136 of them, and it has aggressively sued to protect those patents.
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TC: You're trying to match startups with patents or defensive patents, saying it will help them protect their innovations, as well as help them scale.
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It revealed, for example, that it had received 275 total unique submissions from 155 individuals on 49 separate patents, and multiple submissions on 26 patents.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated PTAB decisions that ruled invalid two VirnetX patents, known as the '211 and '504 patents.
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Despite its commitment to license standard-essential patents on FRAND terms, Qualcomm has consistently refused to license those patents to competing suppliers of baseband processors.
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"The problem is that if the PTO is issuing too many foundational patents, defensive collection of patents won't help avoid the patent trolls," Lemley said.
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IBM remains the leader with the most patents filed, although its numbers are also down: 7,355 patents in the 2015 table versus 103,534 a year ago.
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Unified Patents is a PAE counter-measure — one might even call it a patent attack dog: It challenges bad patents to get them out of circulation.
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The authors found this results in more invalid patents being granted in the U.S., while Europe and countries like Japan denied patents for the same invention.
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Similarly, back in 2015, Microsoft sued Corel for infringing nine patents, four of them design patents covering display screen elements that some have suggested are questionable.
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Along with the assessment of citations in other patents, the analysis included gauging how frequently an average journal article from an institution is cited by patents.
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There are just 30 mentions of Zika in patents, against 1,043 for Ebola and 2,551 for dengue fever, according to Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index.
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Quality patents prevent frivolous assertion by creating barriers to entry through allowing patent examiners to reject patents for inventions that are truly obvious or un-new.
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Patents that rely on federally-funded science are more important: They are more novel, more likely to be cited by future patents, and more often renewed.
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"They continue to file and get patents granted, but they've never been a big filer of patents, and [Musk's] companies have not been traditionally," Wheeler said.
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In response to questions, Mr. Gonzalez, the chief executive, said AbbVie had 136 patents on Humira, with different patents protecting its use to treat different conditions.
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Eighty-nine percent of patents in settled litigation are secondary patents (covering an aspect other than the active ingredient, the most innovative point of the drug).
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"We often seek patents for technology we never implement, and patents should not be taken as an indication of future plans," they said in an emailed statement.
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Qualcomm has patents for chips which include standard essential patents, a term used to describe technology that is required to be licensed broadly and on "reasonable" terms.
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More than 80 percent of patents litigated by PAEs are acquired from operating companies, and nearly 1,000 companies have transferred patents directly to PAEs in recent years.
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Allergan in September 2017 transferred the patents to New York's Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, claiming the tribe's sovereign status meant the patents were immune from administrative review.
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Millington is named as an inventor on 69 Sonos patents, with 33 others pending—a significant portion of the company's entire portfolio, which numbers around 500 patents.
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Lexmark sued Impression in Ohio federal court in 2010, saying that because it expressly retained patents rights in its cartridges, Impression's business model infringed on its patents.
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From 1970 to 2006, African American inventors were awarded just six patents per million people, compared to more than 235 patents per million for all U.S. inventors.
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Saunders said the drugmaker was not trying to shield the patents from review through the deal because it still plans to defend the patents in federal court.
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For instance, the Board grants petitions challenging high-tech patents much more frequently than it does petitions challenging the historically far more reliable biotech and pharmaceutical patents.
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The company last year transferred the patents to New York's St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, claiming the tribe's sovereign status meant the patents were immune from administrative review.
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The technologies described in patents don&apost always materialize in new products, and patents alone aren&apost an indication that Apple is working on a particular product.
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What IFI's larger top-50 table, embedded below, doesn't really draw out are whether there are any trends around what kind of patents are being granted — whether, for example, we are seeing a rise in autonomous vehicle-related patents or declines in patents that are related to mobile phones.
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Walgreen Co, Kroger Co, Albertsons Cos and HEB Grocery Co accused Allergan of illegally preserving its monopoly by obtaining illegal patents, suing rivals that challenged those patents and transferring the patents to a sovereign Native American tribe, New York's Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, to escape scrutiny by U.S. courts.
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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 telecom giant will get Yahoo's core operating business and patents, while Yahoo will retain its stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba (BABA) and some non-core patents.
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In court papers, Samsung said that for complex, modern products such as smartphones, design patents have led to "unjustified windfalls," far beyond the inventive value of the patents.
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Nokia first accused Apple of infringing some of Nokia's patents as well as patents from NSN and Alcatel-Lucent — Nokia owns those companies and their respective patent portfolios.
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When it comes to the most popular categories, of patents filed, the general area of "electrical digital data processing" saw the most patents, with 48,935 assigned in all.
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These patents include those held by the federal government that are licensed out to private companies, and patents held by individuals that disclose "government support" in the application.
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Of NXP's non-standard essential NFC patents that Qualcomm did acquire, it would not enforce its rights against other companies and grant royalty-free licenses to these patents.
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"A very big part of the value in TiVo and Rovi is tied to patents and their willingness to file and litigate around their patents," said Mr. Crockett.
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The deal will see both companies license so-called standard essential patents — patents which are essential to allow products to comply with an industry standard — from each other.
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These tech behemoths support policies that lower the value of patents, so they can lower the value (and, therefore, the price) of the patents they license or buy.
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But in the business of patents, experts say it's not about numbers, but having the best quality patents that aim to enable and extend a company's business model.
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Hedge funds, individuals and companies purchased patents not with the intent to protect their manufacture of innovative products, but to sue innovators who had their own, similar patents.
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Florian Mueller, a patents expert who consulted for Microsoft in the past, said it was rare for Microsoft to actually sell its patents, adding "it's possible Microsoft found it easier to impose its Android patent tax on Xiaomi as part of a broader deal that also involved a transfer of patents."
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The world's top smartphone rivals have been feuding over patents since 2011, when Apple sued Samsung in Northern California alleging infringement of the iPhone's patents, designs and trademarked appearance.
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Recently, I've been digging through 200 patents, granted since 1976, related to tampons; I've found that three out of every four of the inventors behind those patents were men.
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That means other brand-name drug companies could be motivated to follow Allergan's lead and transfer their patents to tribes, severely limiting generic manufacturers' ability to challenge those patents.
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Huawei paid more than $6 billion in royalties to legally implement IP of other companies and has been granted 87,805 patents, of which 11,152 are U.S. patents, Song said.
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Patents affect this wide community because patents affect all technology, and technology is ubiquitous today, from smartphones to cellphone towers to pharmaceuticals — things that touch every person every day.
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Allergan says the tribe's sovereign immunity puts the patents beyond the authority of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an administrative court created in 2012 that can cancel patents.
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The Chinese firm said it has never been asked by a court to pay intellectual infringement damages and has been granted 87,805 patents of which 11,152 are U.S. patents.
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They include eye-wear patents for Spectacles, as well as patents for photo and video-capture devices, and object and facial recognition, which is key to developing augmented reality technology.
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Labs can also turn to the expired patents — patents that are rich fodder, even if (or perhaps because) there was a good reason said drugs never made it to market.
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To take one example, the smartphone in your pocket is covered by between 5,000 and 15,000 patents, and potentially by as many as 250,000 when all related patents are counted.
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Both companies will license a small number of patents to each other but there will be no broad cross-licensing of patents or other compensation, Nvidia said in a statement.
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The nickname has been given to companies which own a portfolio of patents and make a living either licensing the technology, or suing those who appear to violate the patents.
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Amgen also said the companies were afforded a full and fair opportunity to challenge the validity of Amgen's patents at trial and the jury determined Amgen's patents to be valid.
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As a result, Congress passed sweeping legislation in 85033 that created a fast and easy way to invalidate patents, regardless of who owned them or how they litigated those patents.
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When the original patents on their drugs expire, they discourage the entry of cheap generic rivals by obtaining "secondary" patents covering slight variations that have little or no therapeutic value.
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Both the CDC and Gilead have claimed to be in negotiations regarding these patents and the Washington Post reported last month that the Justice Department was researching the CDC's patents.
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While firms know that they can't have perpetual patents, they are quick to take advantage of regulatory systems to prolong their monopolies past the life of their patents whenever possible.
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"The three patents found to be infringed in this case represent just a small fraction of Qualcomm's valuable portfolio of tens of thousands of patents," Rosenberg said in a statement.
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Samsung's mobile head, DJ Koh, stated during the press conference that, during the investigation, the researchers filed several patents in battery technology, patents that will be shared with the industry.
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Handset makers can license one of two sets of Qualcomm patents: The full suite that costs makers about 33 percent of the cost of a handset or a smaller set of so-called "standard essential patents" for 3.25 percent, which includes only the patents needed for gear to work on mobile data networks.
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Handset makers can licence one of two sets of Qualcomm patents: The full suite that costs makers about 5 percent of the cost of a handset or a smaller set of so-called "standard essential patents" for 33 percent, which includes only the patents needed for gear to work on mobile data networks.
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In September, a federal appeals court rejected the University of California Berkeley's arguments that the school has exclusive rights to CRISPR patents, upholding the Broad Institute's patents on some CRISPR applications.
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With a judgement released over the weekend, the England and Wales High Court Chancery Division of the Patents Court determined that two patents covering AbbVie's best-selling drug Humira are invalid.
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Google previously started a group that pledges to only use patents defensively, while another group it co-founded, the LOT Network, prevented companies from buying up patents just to sue others.
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Huawei has the largest portfolio of patents for 5G — about 1,554 SEPs — and is ahead of Nokia, Samsung and LG Electronics, according to IPlytics, a market intelligence firm that tracks patents.
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The company analyzed GE's device patents when the company won a contract with China's Three Gorges Dam project in 2005, and China's State Council demanded ownership of those patents, Pratt said.
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Ericsson said it was suing the company in the courts of Duesseldorf and Mannheim for infringement of patents essential for 13G, 3G and 4G cellular technology, as well as implementation patents.
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The government said the company infringed upon patents owned by the Department of Health and Human Services, and had refused attempts by the department to license its patents and collect royalties.
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Its researchers submit more patents than 74 out of the 75 top-ranked universities in the region, and outside researchers frequently cite KAIST inventions in their own patents and research papers.
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The next step was to ascertain the extent to which this output was successfully turned to patents by consulting two additional Clarivate resources: Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent Innovations Index.
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"The three patents found to be infringed in this case represent just a small fraction of Qualcomm's valuable portfolio of tens of thousands of patents," Mr. Rosenberg said in a statement.
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The world's top smartphone rivals have been feuding over patents since 2011, when Apple sued Samsung in a northern California court alleging infringement of the iPhone's patents, designs and trademarked appearance.
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The tribe and company have said that the tribe's sovereign status shields the patents from review by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an administrative court empowered to invalidate patents.
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Yet through legal loopholes, patent assertion entities — companies that own patents but never use them to make anything, better known as "patent trolls" — increasingly use patents as weapons to extort businesses.
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" Finance philosophy #2: "There are no patents in finance.
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Consider the so-called FAANG group, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google: Facebook is at number-36 (one of the fastest movers but still not top 10) with 989 patents; Apple is at number-seven with 2,490 patents; Amazon is at number-nine with 20193,427 patents; Netflix doesn't make the top 50 at all; and the Android, search and advertising behemoth Google is merely at slot 15 with 2,102 patents (and no special mention for growth).
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Instead of leaving the patents with Apparate International in Bermuda and licensing them back to itself at a fee that could double as a tax write-off, Uber transferred the patents back to the US. Bizarrely, Uber transferred eight of its patents to Apparate International before transferring them back to Uber the very next day.
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Last February, the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled that the patents owned by the Broad are different enough from the ones UC Berkeley applied for that the Broad patents stand.
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Most policies will require all filed patents to run through a "Tech Transfer Office," which is assumed to provide value by performing Freedom to Operate searches and helping file for provisional patents.
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PAEs have reportedly sued Apple at least 12 times based off former Nokia patents; by itself, Acacia has sued Apple more than 40 times based off patents from Nokia and other companies.
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The FTC racked up one victory last year: in November, Judge Koh ruled that rival chipmakers should be able to directly license Qualcomm's patents, based on the rules around standard-essential patents.
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The decision has since been applied to invalidate many other software patents, ranging from patents covering financial techniques implemented using the Internet, ad-supported Internet content and many other computer-implemented concepts.
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One can reasonably expect that these funds will be aggressive in searching for opportunities to identify patents for assertion and work out financing deals based on the expected value of those patents.
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The startup claims they charge half the price of traditional law firms and that they file patents in 14 days while larger firms spend as much as 30 days getting patents filed.
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Design patents offer a far more lucrative weapon for patent trolls, as they can threaten and potentially recover awards and settlements that account for more than just the value of their patents.
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He believes the critical problem is not on the large pool of overvalued patents on the output side — patent offices issue patents on what is applied for, but on the input side.
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"We often seek patents for technology we never implement, and patents should not be taken as an indication of future plans," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement emailed to The Hill.
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If the bill is enacted, generic companies will have little incentive to challenge patents, even if they know the patents on the drug are invalid and that they are likely to prevail.
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SRC and Allergan made the deals to shield their patents from review by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an administrative court run by the U.S. patent office that frequently revokes patents.
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A company that bought patents from failed blood-testing startup Theranos has filed a lawsuit claiming that a health startup that recently launched three COVID-19 tests is infringing on those patents.
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Software Patents Are Increasingly Coming Under Fire In Court We've witnessed significant upheavals in the patent system in the last few years, ranging from a surprisingly active Supreme Court that has weighed in on patent law, major legal changes that have impacted the validity of patents in litigation (particularly software patents) and repeated unsuccessful attempts at patent reform.
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None of the patents are essential to a standard, Qualcomm says, which means it isn't required to license them — as it is with the other patents the two companies are in disagreement over.
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MolMed and Oxford BioMedica on Tuesday signed a new non-exclusive licence agreement concerning lentiviral vector technology and, considering recent expiration of relevant patents, terminated the existing exclusive licence agreement on retroviral patents.
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Yeh co-authored three patents as part of his previous project at UC Berkeley, which itself landed funding from the Gates Foundation, and licensing those patents out has financed mFluiDx's development to date.
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Testimony should last about a week in the case being heard Monday, which originally involved 5 patents and dozens of claims, but has been narrowed to focus on three patents and six claims.
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Asked about the Apple challenges to the OpenTV patents, a spokeswoman for the Munich court said two nullity cases relating to patents for video delivery and integrated interactive video and Internet were pending.
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In addition to freeing this latest batch of patents into the open market wilds, the program has also revamped its website to include a searchable database of all of its available public patents.
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In the latest trial, jurors were asked to determine damages on two VirnetX patents that Apple had already been found to infringe, and to determine both infringement and damages on another two patents.
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At issue were $28 million in supplemental damages plus interest that a federal judge awarded to Dow for Nova's infringement of its patents from January 2010 to October 2011, when the patents expired.
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Today, African Americans and Hispanics apply for patents at only half the rate of whites, and African American and Hispanic college graduates similarly hold just half as many patents as white college graduates.
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Ending diversion and allowing the USPTO to retain all the fees it collects would help ensure the quality of issued patents, improve operational efficiencies and reduce the time it takes to issue patents.
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"That thesis doesn't stand up given efforts on innovation," Fuest said, noting German carmakers own 40 percent of international patents on combustion engine cars and a quarter of patents on fuel cell cars.
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Huawei and Verizon representatives met in New York last week to discuss some of the patents at issue and whether Verizon is using equipment from other companies that could infringe on Huawei patents.
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It allegedly refuses to license its patents to direct competitors.
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And, of course, TiVo also holds a lot of patents.
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And in November, Apparate received eight more patents from Uber.
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Uber followed the traditional formula in transferring its patents overseas.
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Like many patents, this one might never come to fruition.
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Loads of patents never end up becoming actual consumer products.
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They have four patents filed and FDA approval in process.
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And that's what Zhang did, so he deserves the patents.
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Today, Mr. Hollinger holds six patents related to throwable cameras.
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Only a very few patents have been issued so far.
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To be clear, patents don't always lead to product implementation.
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The authority to grant patents is in the American constitution.
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Improving quality going forward doesn't address invalid patents already granted.
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WIPO oversees international treaties governing patents, trademarks and industrial designs.
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"Everything is proprietary everything is backed by patents," she says.
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It also has a number of patents around its technology.
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Worse, some large proportion of those patents are certainly invalid.
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Software utility patents are still available in the United States.
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Qualcomm retaliated by suing Apple (AAPL) for violating its patents.
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Those patents dealt with the design of the iPhone 3.
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He complained about countries not honoring our copyrights and patents.
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VirnetX and Apple have been fighting over patents for years.
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HMD will pay Nokia royalties for the brand and patents.
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When Sundback's patents expired in 1960, YKK expanded into America.
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Gilead, meanwhile, said Merck's patents were derived from Pharmasset's work.
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Last month, Freeman ruled that Gilead's drugs infringe Merck's patents.
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The Tribe subsequently agreed to license the patents to Allergan.
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You also may get a few patents out of it.
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The agency said four other Tivo patents were not infringed.
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TC: How many patents are available to you right now?
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TC: You mentioned that some patents are depreciating in value.
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Whatever the patents and technologies are, they're for something else.
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Qualcomm claims that Apple infringed on two of its patents.
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We will make more if there are more quality patents.
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Patents shouldn't bestow monopoly privilege, nor should they exist forever.
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Proponents of IPR say it's vital for dismantling bad patents.
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NO COUNTRY HAS EVER ACHIEVED ANYTHING LIKE 10 MILLION PATENTS.
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But at his death, he held nearly 1,100 U.S. patents.
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The vast majority of patents are also filed by men.
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NO COUNTRY HAS COME REMOTELY CLOSE TO 10 MILLION PATENTS.
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He also invented several data and privacy patents for Google.
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As with all patents, the description is broad and vague.
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It has even registered patents for some of its algorithms.
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When the company's liquidated, the main value is the patents.
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He found that four of the Restasis patents were invalid.
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The two companies recently completed a deal to share patents.
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Furthermore, biotech and pharmaceutical patents have fared well in IPR.
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A recent Supreme Court decision on patents — Oil States v.
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He was issued numerous patents while working at those firms.
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And when patents expire you lose a lot of money.
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Have people come to you, trying to buy your patents?
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A typical smartphone might be covered by some 250,000 patents.
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The fee would cover licensing of more than 230 patents.
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Red fully anticipates its patents will be held valid again.
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As mentioned above, patents are extremely expensive animals to keep, and a large corporation with a large stable of patents can spend tens of millions of dollars a year on maintenance fees and taxes.
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It's important to remember that not all patents turn into products, and even if patents are eventually used in real-life products, its takes years for them to ever see the light of day.
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Overall, China generates more patents in a year than America, Europe and Japan combined, but less than a quarter are for genuine inventions, and few of its domestic patents are recognised abroad (see chart).
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The tech giant also joined Samsung in challenging the validity of Smartflash's patents before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which invalidated as too abstract the three Smartflash patents the jury found Apple infringed.
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Many startups rely on patents to protect their intellectual property, but allowing low-quality patents to flood the system not only enables trolls to file abusive lawsuits, it also delegitimizes the entire patent system.
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Sqoop measured companies on three metrics: number of utility patents applied for; number of utility patent applications granted; and number of design patents received, as recorded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Arista Networks Inc can challenge two Cisco Systems Inc patents on network technology through inter partes review (IPR) even though the patents were originally issued to Arista's co-founder, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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Unlike regular patents, which are granted for inventions, design patents are given for the appearance of useful things like the shape of a piano, the design of a rug, or the contour of a smartphone.
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In 2013, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion finding that those particular patents were invalid because human genes are not patentable, but plenty of other scientific discoveries, like CRISPR, are still eligible for patents.
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Esvelt, who holds the patents for gene drive, a formidable tool that can be used to override natural gene selection, plans to use his own patents to force other scientists to share their work publicly.
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The University of California has received two new patents on CRISPR gene-editing technology, bringing its total number of patents to 10 as it prepares for another legal confrontation with the Massachusetts-based Broad Institute.
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The details: The Patent and Trademark Office can invalidate a company's patents when those patents are challenged by a competitor — and that process is a lot cheaper and easier than challenging a patent in court.
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As we look forward to the next 10 million patents—it'll take a lot less than 180 years this time—let's continue to make sure our patent system promotes progress, rather than just promoting patents.
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A recent study from Harvard University shows that patent trolls deliberately snatch up patents granted by lenient USPTO staff, knowing those patents are more likely to be flawed in a way that favors indiscriminate litigation.
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Celgene's patents likely won't be challenged by its rivals anytime soon — its three main patents expire in the 2020s, by which point the company will have made a considerable amount of money on the drugs.
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It has invalidated claims in more than four-fifths of the patents it has analyzed – very shortly after those patents had been assessed and deemed valid by other PTO patent experts, the patent examiner corps.
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He told CNBC that any money to be made from specific blockchain patents — his firm has filed for a few — wouldn't come for years if patents are eventually granted and isn't the real story anyway.
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The CRISPR patents are estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
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Patents should be rarer, shorter and easier to challenge in court.
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And, of course, owning a whole boatload of patents never hurt.
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"Most big companies have taken licenses to these patents," Desmarais said.
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Tysabri's U.S. and European patents expire in 2024, at the earliest,.
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A judge ruled before the trial that Minerva infringed the patents.
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After all, broad patents mean more opportunities to reap financial reward.
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Amgen had previously accused the two companies of infringing its patents.
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It later dropped three of the six patents from the case.
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Typically, a patent holder enforces its patents by first identifying infringers.
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Like patents, and unlike copyrights, federal trademark protection is applied for.
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Third, the ability to challenge invalid patents needs to be strengthened.
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TC: You already have more than 100 patents to your names.
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The company argued that the patents in question are not valid.
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Like with all patents, the idea may never come to fruition.
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So, all these new patents turn innovation into a legal minefield.
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Qualcomm has a lot of patents that fit into these standards.
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Patents issued to Faraday Future wound up being used by LeSee.
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Earlier this year ByteDance acquired a set of patents from Smartisan.
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In other words, it will ask that Blackbird's patents are reexamined.
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The Patent Office awards patents for new and non-obvious inventions.
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The growth in patents was more sluggish in Europe and Japan.
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The case, which dates back to 2011, centers around design patents.
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Qualcomm collects license fees from smartphone makers for using its patents.
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China filed 53,23 patents in 2018, a hair behind America's 56,142.
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The agency is also empowered to cancel patents it has issued.
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Just like regulations, some patents can be in the public interest.
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S. companies received more than half of the U.S. patents awarded.
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Boriah told CNBC Lully has filed for U.S. and international patents.
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Qualcomm has in turn alleged that Apple has infringed its patents.
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Lexmark argued that violated their patents, but the Supreme Court disagreed.
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It generated 1,000 patents, a typical number in any given year.
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Of course, "new" is kind of a relative term in patents.
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LG said Miele was violating "a considerable number" of its patents.
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The sharpest example of exclusion is perhaps drug and device patents.
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Apple certainly has some ideas about glasses, based on published patents.
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The government first applied for patents on prophylaxis techniques in 2006.
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But Gilead maintains that its patents will not expire until 2021.
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It enumerated the many advantages of patents and IP rights, not
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Patents create the conditions for increased profits that, in turn, increase
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Generic drugmaker Hikma Pharmaceuticals had challenged the validity of the patents.
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Patents and trade secrets are closely guarded in the tech world.
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Companies there do more research and development and produce more patents.
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The executives also targeted strategies used by drugmakers to extend patents.
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The lawsuit also names Brazil's national patents office as a defendant.
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She has filed over 20 patents and mentors fellow women engineers.
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It's unclear which patents are actually covered by this, for example.
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Teva's Copaxone patents are licensed from Yeda Research & Development Co Ltd.
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Allen Lo is deputy general counsel for patents at Google Inc.
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Dr. Hall held more than 40 patents in the United States.
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Patents that the government provides to drug companies necessarily create monopolies.
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China might end up leading in 5G patents and hardware production.
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VirnetX is a holding company that licenses patents for security technology.
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Professors may generate patents, consult for local companies or start firms.
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It is also one of the top owners of 523G patents.
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A jury found in 2012 that Samsung had infringed those patents.
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The PTAB has overturned only 16 percent of challenged pharmaceutical patents.
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As a result, patents have decreased substantially in value since 2011.
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And you were able to earn some patents along the way.
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It holds eight patents, which brings us back to the court.
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Encourage Innovation: Patents play an important role in protecting many inventions.
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But patents don't look like the heart of the issue here.
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Sonos executives said their complaints were hardly just about patents, however.
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"Longer patents mean only one thing — more expensive drugs," Corbyn said.
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Generic companies often challenge brand-name drug patents before the board.
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Mr. Dorenkamp's name is on numerous patents related to engine technology.
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Generic drugs are those that are no longer covered by patents.
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Scroll to see drawings from patents, and how designers rendered them.
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"Ideally, they would have both patents and trade secrets," Rappaport said.
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Patents, for example, are government-granted monopolies meant to incentivize innovation.
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Because you do have, what, tens of thousands of patents, correct?
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Yet not all is lost in the fight against dumb patents.
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It spawns litigation over the validity of patents and their scope.
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While firms that have a history of monetizing patents they didn't create are in fact major players in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain — Intellectual Ventures, which has had its fair share of critics over the years, is among the top five holders of bitcoin patents, according to Patexia research — Spangenberg views IPwe's own patents in this space as a secondary aim.
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Intellectual property protection in the U.S. has gotten so bad that I know U.S. inventors who have been counseled into not filing for their patents in the U.S. I know U.S. inventors who have forced to enforce their patents in China because their patents have been severely weakened or nullified altogether by a new administrative court that was created in that law.
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Others rounding out fastest-growing were Hewlett Packard Enterprise, up 22019 places to number-163 (216 patents); Facebook, up 27 places to number-25 (989 patents); Micron Technology, up nine places to number-25 (1,268), Huawei, up six places to number-10 (2,73), BOE Technology, up four places to number-13 (2,177), and Microsoft, up three places to number-4 (3,081 patents).
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Of course, it's not the case that patents directly correlate with a company's fortunes, since tech that is at the cutting edge of innovation that's winning patents may be far from ever seeing a commercial application.
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IFI has analyzed patents for more than 60 years and its long-term editorial policy is to publish the number of patents by each legal entity, rather than trying to group them together by parent company.
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Consider the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a commonsense quality control panel that can invalidate bad patents, if those patents are submitted to them in what is called an Inter Partes review.
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Allergan said on Friday it had transferred patents on its blockbuster dry eye medicine Restasis to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, which will exclusively license the patents back to the company in exchange for ongoing payments.
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"This panel's statutory authority to review whether the Restasis patents were properly granted as a matter of federal law does not and should not depend on the identity of the patents' owner," said the trade group.
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In this most recent trial, jurors had to work out damages on two VirnetX patents that Apple had been previously been adjudged to have infringed, and to rule on infringement and damages on another two patents.
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But what's fair or reasonable about the fact that an impossibly-large number of LTE (4G) cellular patents — more than 60,000, in fact — have been declared "standards essential" without any independent evaluation of those patents whatsoever?
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Opponents of IPR have unreasonably labeled it a "death squad" for patents, pointing to the process's high rate of overturning patents as evidence of the system's failure and the threat it allegedly presents to inventors nationwide.
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"You shouldn't be able to evergreen your patents," Mr. Azar said, referring to the practice by which brand-name drug makers delay generic competition by securing additional patents for relatively minor variations on a profitable drug.
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If Allergan succeeds in holding onto its patents, "we will probably see multiple branded companies housing their patents with Indian tribes," Ronny Gal, an analyst for Bernstein, said in a video message to investors on Friday.
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The USPTO is the first line of defense against poor-quality patents being issued, and it should dedicate resources to examiner training and internal monitoring systems that focus on the correctness of decisions to grant patents.
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To address competition concerns, the company has agreed not to purchase NXP's standard essential patents and not to take legal action against third parties related to NXP's near field communication (NFC) patents except for defensive purposes.
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"Huawei negotiated with Verizon for a significant period of time, during which the company provided a detailed list of patents and factual evidence of Verizon's use of Huawei patents," Huawei said in a statement announcing the lawsuits.
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Goldman said patents, land, property and "non-core units or businesses" are all on the table for potential sale, and the company has sold or licensed more than $600 million in patents over the last three years.
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Yet with respect to facial recognition, there have been more than 900 facial recognition patents filed in China — almost 10 times more than the number of patents filed in the U.S., according to data analysts CB Insights.
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Apple alleges Qualcomm is seeking to be compensated twice for the same patents in selling chips and simultaneously seeking royalties for patents embodied in those chips, which Apple maintains runs contrary to the court's holdings in Lexmark.
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Similarly, Conversant, which claims to own thousands of patents, announced last week that a Silicon Valley jury had awarded one of its units a $7.3 million settlement in an infringement case against Apple involving two smartphone patents.
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This includes patents on expensive drugs: The blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, for example, is one drug the PTAB found to have been wrongly granted patents, thus allowing cheaper versions of the medicine to enter the market.
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In August, the US Patent and Trademark Office launched a review of the patents for Soliris, Alexion&aposs blockbuster rare blood disease drug, after rival Amgen requested a challenge to the company&aposs patents on the drug.
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Rich economies now rely more on "intangibles", such as software and patents.
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The company also has a ton of patents related to wireless technologies.
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They have chemical companies testing with them, and have filed some patents.
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She's a capable design manager with hundreds of patents to her name.
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Of course, patents have to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Nikola alleges Tesla's semi-truck design infringes upon multiple patents it holds.
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Patent applications cite earlier patents to show how they differ from them.
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IBM sued Chicago-based Groupon in 2016, alleging infringement of four patents.
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He's also submitted patents for self-chilled water bottles and wine glasses.
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To answer this, it first helps to know how patents are enforced.
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Patents could be a way for Huawei to go after U.S. firms.
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These usually pay for the entire patent portfolio, rather than individual patents.
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Patents can also be filed defensively, as hedges against rivals' R&D.
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Seed patents were just the beginning of the IP frustrations facing farmers.
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BofA's overall patent portfolio now consists of over 20203,900 patents and applications.
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"It wouldn't have 900 million active iPhones today without patents," Ives said.
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The patents that Google has been filing seem to suggest as much.
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Facebook acquired the patents from Jhanji in 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
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Patents in things like business methods are described in vague, abstract language.
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However, patents are not worth today what they were five years ago.
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Which gets us back to why the STRONGER Patents Act is important.
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In 2003, Cisco (CSCO) sued Huawei for copying software and violating patents.
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The judge also found Dr. Reddy's proposed generic would infringe those patents.
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The second option is that Sidecar tries to enforce the patents itself.
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A company spokesman declined to give a geographic breakdown of the patents.
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It says it is innovative, with 118 U.S. patents and 73 pending.
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Patents filed by Chinese companies, for instance, are not all they seem.
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Apple stayed level with last year at number 11, winning 2,229 patents.
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That newco is also keeping the cash, some patents and minority investments.
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Some of its patents for HEV technology are available for a fee.
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Microsoft has also made its 60,000 patents open source to help Linux.
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To protect an idea, with patents and so on, involved spilling it.
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Recently Tesla filed for two patents for using AR in factory production.
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The patents were granted on Tuesday after initially being filed in 2015.
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First, Apple has been granted several patents for a curved-screen phone.
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TC: How do the companies establish how much their patents are worth?
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Patents and IP have traditionally been the province of the federal government.
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"This is experimental, and indeed cutting edge (the patents etc)," Sparks says.
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At the center of the Apple versus Samsung case are design patents.
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Puma points out it holds patents and copyrights for the shoe line.
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The tech company with the most autonomous-driving patents, Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.
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The startup has around 20 patents granted and pending at this point.
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IBM's patents describe commonplace internet technology like password management and online advertising.
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Just because Apple patents something doesn't mean it's going to build it.
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To date, effectively protecting patents has been one of India's biggest weaknesses.
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Unlike most people with patents I don't care if you steal this!
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Consider the closely watched trial between Apple and Samsung over design patents.
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The search for the best patents can be both cumbersome and disorganized.
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MP: We sell a lot of patents, maybe more than anyone else.
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The patents are a "huge part of our competitive moat," Angle said.
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The company had been granted patents for a reformulated version of OxyContin.
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Worse yet, it has canceled patents after district courts upheld the patent.
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And now the ACLU's stance on software patents has entered the fray.
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Globally, migrants are three times likelier to file patents than non-migrants.
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U.S. Code, which grants the government power to break patents and license
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The combined company will have more than 6,000 patents and pending applications.
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He noted that the suit was filed when Allergan owned the patents.
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And all that protects those innovations are patents — or used to, anyway.
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Without strong patents, we cannot raise money to find cures for disease.
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But Magic Leap's patents suggest more sophisticated, and sometimes downright creepy, uses.
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CNN could not find any trace of such patents under his name.
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Both companies made fitness tracking devices and tussled over patents in court.
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In 2007, USPTO granted 17,000 design patents, up from 21625,2900 in 220006.
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These patents, if valid, would delay competition for an average 28500 years.
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Nokia's patents could help it continue its mobile and connected device expansion.
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The company has published 1,419 patents since 2009, according to CB Insights.
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And then, in October, a federal judge invalidated the patents in question.
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They bought "Inventing for Dummies" and began learning about prototyping and patents.
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Engine will hold a panel discussion on design patents at 10 a.m.
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He holds patents for both broadcast news understanding (6,961,954) and personalcasting (7,386,542).
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So we looked through Looksery's patents to find out how it works.
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A federal court in Texas separately invalidated Allergan's Restasis patents on Monday.
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A couple of decades and a few patents later, KAATSU was born.
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Apple and Samsung have been at war over patents for many years.
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Apple and Samsung today settled their long-running dispute over smartphone patents.
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Why it matters: Licensing patents, Bloomberg notes, is Qualcomm's biggest profit driver.
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" Patents: The committee will "work on reforms to discourage abusive patent litigation.
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Teva holds five patents on Copaxone and believes they will be upheld.
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Patents are not standard-issue private property, like a plot of land.
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Huawei has 56,492 active patents worldwide, according to the research firm AcclaimIP.
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WIPO is the "Major League Baseball Commission" of patents and trade secrets.
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They're going to need a lot of tech, and that means patents.
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So about half of the company is an IP portfolio, 5,000 patents.
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The company still faces a challenge to the patents in federal court.
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Patents are property rights secured to inventors of new products or services.
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The company won 64 percent more patents in 2019 than in 2018.
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An internal video using Batman sounds to encourage engineers to file patents.
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They own cultivar patents and plan to produce juice and powder plants.
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Sonos alleges subsequent Google speakers infringed on even more of its patents.
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Among Edison's thousands of patents and inventions, the phonograph was his favorite.
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Mr. Frankovich, the founder of Revolights, holds six patents on bicycle lighting.
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As Google released more products, it violated more patents, Sonos executives said.
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The figure includes the 1,500 patents bought from Microsoft Corp last year.
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There is little dispute that most of the Nokia patents are legitimate.
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Headlines - Apple, Cisco, Daimler and BMW complain to Brussels over patents on.ft.
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Patents can reveal information to competitors better kept as proprietary trade secrets.
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Much business value is now in intellectual property like patents and software.
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The way we do drug pricing right now is based on patents.
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U.S. District Judge Claire Cecchi in Newark, New Jersey rejected arguments by Novartis' Sandoz unit that the patents covering Enbrel's active ingredient until 2029 should not have been granted because their concepts were already contained in previous patents.
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Software-related patents will survive challenges to their validity despite a U.S. Supreme Court precedent that has led to the widespread cancellation of patents, if they improve the way computers operate, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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"Huawei negotiated with Verizon for a significant period of time, during which the company provided a detailed list of patents and factual evidence of Verizon's use of Huawei patents," Huawei said in a press release announcing the lawsuits.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially reversed a jury verdict that Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries Co infringed two Chamberlain patents, saying one of the two patents at issue in the case was invalid.
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There are around 4,000 patents, both issued and applications for pending patents, as part of Excalibur, Yahoo said today, but the implication was that they were not getting the kinds of offers that it had hoped to get.
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Court of appeals for the federal circuit reverses delaware court that had ruled the patents were indefinite * Lawsuit relates to cox complaint in delaware federal court that the sprint patents are invalid and not infringed * Over ip technology
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On the list for number of design patents received, only Apple made the top ten, placing in fourth; while on the list for number of utility patents granted, only Google/Alphabet made the top ten, placing in ninth.
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In its complaint, the agency said the patents that Qualcomm sought to license are standard essential patents, which means that the industry uses them widely and they are supposed to be licensed on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
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In the two decades since the drug came on the market, its maker has applied for 247 patents, according the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge; it is currently protected from competition by more than 100 such patents.
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When we raised the concern about IP infringement on a recent MashTalk, a Xiaomi spokesperson was quick to correct us: Any smartphone player in the world today — and especially a company like ours that is operating internationally — must ensure two essential steps: systematically negotiate licenses to patents, and build a strong portfolio of our own patents for defensive purposes — we have already filed over 3,000 patents globally.
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The lawsuit, the second high-profile patent dispute between Apple and Nokia in the last decade, began last year when Nokia accused Apple of infringing on dozens of patents it owns, as well as patents owned by Nokia subsidiaries.
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Finally, the USPTO appears to be more willing to allow the issuance of new software patents based on revised guidance it issued in July of 2015 that provides a number of examples of valid patents under the Alice decision.
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Bumble asks court to rule Tinder patents invalid Ashley R. Carman has the latest on the Bumble-Tinder legal drama: Bumble responded to Match Group's lawsuit from earlier this year that involved the alleged infringement of certain Tinder patents.
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In its complaint, the FTC said the patents that Qualcomm sought to license are standard essential patents, which means that the industry uses them widely and they are supposed to be licensed on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
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But China is also clearly "in it to win it," based on a look at patents, with four times as many AI-related applications and three times as many crypto- and blockchain-related patents registered in China last year.
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While Facebook says it often seeks patents for technology it never implements, one thing Facebook is doing—and that it has filed multiple patents on since 2012 because it works so well—is building shadow profiles to connect users.
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VirnetX, which is regularly described as a "patent troll," sued Apple claiming it infringed on four patents related to communications protocols patents used in iMessage, FaceTime, and VPN on Demand, as well as the Apple devices using the software.
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Allergan, which has its headquarters in Dublin, in September 2017 transferred the patents to New York's Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which took legal ownership of the patents and then licensed them back to Allergan in exchange for ongoing payments.
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Patents awarded to Facebook show designs for a camera (left) and video camera (right) Patents awarded to Facebook show designs for a camera (left) and video camera (right) And finally, Instagram is getting deeper into the voice game, too.
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Cognition IP's hope is that it can successfully build a topic graph for the universe of patents out there to quickly see if there are potential issues with the patents in order to head off problems down the road.
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A federal judge in Texas invalidated four key patents for the dry-eye treatment Restasis on Monday, dealing a blow to its manufacturer, Allergan, which had sought to protect its patents by transferring them to a Native American tribe.
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As a pioneer of wireless speakers, it has amassed a lot of patents.
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More recently, Texas was second only to California in patents issued last year.
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The court sided with Mylan, which claimed the patents in question were invalid.
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Women were long denied the right to file patents in their own name.
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These patents included a wraparound windshield, a feature the Tesla Semi also has.
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Prior art can be other patents, products offered for sale, or even books.
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The ban stemmed from alleged infringement of patents held by chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM).
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Licensing patents and collecting a royalty on biotech sales is a market norm.
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Patents are a trophy, an invisible symbol that convey credit for an innovation.
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But some under-the-radar firms are still acquiring patents and immediately gouging.
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The number of AI-based startups, conferences, research papers, and patents is skyrocketing.
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Its team has spent seven years working with nanomaterials and has three patents.
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Pender's decision on the other two patents would not be reviewed, it said.
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Those patents are related to software, video coding, chipsets, display, UI and antenna.
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The regulator said iPhone models infringed on the patents of 100C mobile phones.
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IV argues that if it didn't buy patents, inventors would never get paid.
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As with all patents, we don't know whether Facebook is building this system.
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Its own synthetic-diamond operation, for industrial uses, holds more than 450 patents.
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The lawsuit alleges that Ring has infringed on some of SkyBell's 71 patents.
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All four of VirnetX's patents have been found invalid by the patent office.
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But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office later invalidated one of Apple's patents.
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The company has patents around the detection of acoustical anomalies in rotating equipment.
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The two companies had been at odds over patents and royalties over modems.
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The company holds patents covering various elements of Restasis that expire in 2024.
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Thanks to these patents, Qualcomm has licensing agreements with more than 300 companies.
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Sonos filed a lawsuit against Google for allegedly violating its patents last month.
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But as science has advanced, so too has the scope of those patents.
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"There will be an explosion of transposon/CRISPR patents coming soon," Finkelstein predicts.
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Or do you think legal or patents might have more value for you?
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BlackBerry on Wednesday sued Twitter, alleging it infringes on several messaging-related patents.
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Such patents are often pie in the sky ideas or just IP grabs.
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It holds the patents, which Echodyne licensed and engineered for its own purposes.
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Patents are vital to encourage the creation of inventions and other intellectual property.
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Apple was granted several patents for wireless charging technology, in 2012 and 2013.
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" He added that ICE buys patents and intellectual property "at an alarming rate.
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Trade secrets and patents are not mutually exclusive — each can be of value.
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Apple claims that Qualcomm is infringing eight battery life patents with its processors.
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The group attributes this to patents expiring and decreases in generic drug prices.
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Ant Financial has published 49 blockchain patents, more than any other company anywhere.
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By comparison, today, there are more than 200,000 patents in a single smartphone.
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Of those, 97 were patent protected, with patents pending for the remaining 92.
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As Chinese firms issue more patents, the keener they are to protect them.
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The tribe has asked the PTAB to dismiss challenges to the Restasis patents.
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But the additional patents are often for small changes to the original drug.
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Even governments keen to pump cash into drug development prioritise drugs with patents.
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RPX also provide patent litigation insurance, as well as market intelligence on patents.
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The jury rejected its counterclaims that Boston Scientific's heart valves infringed its patents.
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But everyone appreciates one fundamental fact: Patents, and intellectual property generally, mean value.
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It maintained at the time that Supernus' patents were invalid, court papers show.
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In total, Facebook is asking for unspecified damages for infringement of six patents.
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Competition, specifically from lower-cost rivals taking advantage of Align Technology's expired patents.
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Apple will now hold over 17,000 wireless technology patents, according to the release.
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Uber's lawyer: Do you understand that Waymo sued Uber for infringing on patents?
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Terashi said that the access excluded patents on its lithium-ion battery technology.
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And as Bloomberg points out, Apple has filed patents around this idea before.
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Of course, U.S. patents themselves often do not apply outside the United States.
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JURY FINDS APPLE INFRINGED ON ALL THREE QUALCOMM PATENTS IN TRIAL - QUALCOMM SPOKESPERSON
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But like all patents, it may never end up in any real product.
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Separate from the current court fight, the Restasis patents already have been invalidated.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office dropped 80 new Apple patents Tuesday morning.
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"We can tell you that, and that will make patents better," Spangenberg said.
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The two cases are substantially similar but are grounded on different Qualcomm patents.
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"It's certainly bullish," said Justin Hill, a patents expert with law firm Olswang.
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The court also said Apple was liable for infringing one of Samsung's patents.
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Apple and Samsung have been battling over mobile device technology patents for years.
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Prometheus, that made it harder to obtain patents on natural phenomena or substances.
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These changes have to do with monopolies, patents, executive pay and other matters.
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Williams is a seasoned innovator with numerous patents and companies under his guidance.
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The B.J.P.'s nativist, Hindu-pride approach to patents is also bad economics.
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In 2010, VirnetX sued Apple, alleging that it had infringed on four patents.
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N). The tech company with the most autonomous-driving patents, Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.
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The quality of patents is also important, since not all are created equal.
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Gilead has responded that the government patents are invalid and denied infringing them.
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Kraft alleges the Indiana-based TC Heartland's "water enhancers" infringe three Kraft patents.
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The company retained Motorola patents that helped Google compete against Apple years later.
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Smith has 27 patents in the field of computer music and email security.
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She specifically identifies the value of a "two-track" approach to attacking patents.
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That's why we've introduced the STRONGER Patents Act in the Senate this week.
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And it was 200,27 patents in a year is what we just did.
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Such delay results from exploiting loopholes in the system for policing drug patents.
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In February, the International Trade Commission said that Arista had violated three patents.
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The tech industry has been blighted by legal disputes over patents and copyrights.
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Typically patents can cost $10,000 to $300, or up to a million dollars.
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In fact, the U.S. Constitution grants the rights for companies to get patents.
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As DealBook reported yesterday, it seems that the acquisition is mostly about patents.
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Patents and previous rumors already hinted at facial recognition for the iPhone 231.
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Mylan petitioned the patent office to review the Copaxone patents' validity last year.
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For decades, these patents allowed Roche to extract cash from dozens of drugmakers.
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By day the elderly patents at the nursing home had good vital signs.
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I think Fortress is mainly going to play patent troll with those patents.
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Kriegsfeld says that Mitek has more than 40 patents in image processing technology.
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The A.C.L.U. then joined coalition of medical groups challenging the patents in court.
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China's Xiaomi is beefing up its patent portfolio, acquiring 1,500 patents from Microsoft.
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Uber says it isn't hiding anything and did not infringe on Alphabet's patents.
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Apple and Samsung have fought in courts over smartphones patents for seven years.
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"Patents secure the underlying investments," said a representative from BASF in an email.
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But patents do not tell the whole story in another very important regard.
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Why would the Obama administration deliberately devalue the worth of patents and innovation?
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Of course, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't disclose your patents or algorithms.
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Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the patents.
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Similarly, both Google and Sony have filed patents on smart contact lens technology.
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Many hundreds of invalid patents, many already involved in litigation, have been revoked.
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Apple will add about 2,200 Intel employees, as well as patents and equipment.
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Her father, who works on patents for car companies, moved the family constantly.
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Just to May, when Dyson's automotive business applied for electric vehicle patents. 😔
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In some cases, companies fight back and win invalidation of the plaintiff's patents.
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These prices will continue to fall as patents expire and therapies go generic.
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And it knew it would need Segway's patents to enter the US market.
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Sony eventually acquired OnLive's patents and launched its own streaming service: PlayStation Now.
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The PTAB responds to requests by third parties to review recently issued patents.
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During Edison's lifetime (1847 to 1931) he was awarded 1,093 United States patents.
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Then, between March and June, it filed seven legal challenges against NuCurrent's patents.
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He claims to hold more than 20 US patents, according to his LinkedIn.
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IPR helps to ensure that only valid patents are allowed in the market.
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Globally migrants are three times more likely to file patents than non-migrants.
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Last year, Xiaomi inked a similar deal with Microsoft, buying up 1,500 patents.
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Redux has 178 granted patents with 50 pending, according to its LinkedIn page.
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It did not respond to a request for comment on its blockchain patents.
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OPINION An editorial on Monday misstated the number of active patents for Humira.
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This bill would increase competition by encouraging generic companies to challenge weak patents.
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These patents were originally filed in 2011 You may also notice the large port at the bottom of Apple's phone designs, which hints at the fact that these patents were originally filed in 2011, even though it was granted in 2016.
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In an opinion issued on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Texas, said Core Wireless SARL, which now owns the Nokia patents at issue, had failed to offer detailed evidence about how much value those patents added to phones.
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We reached out to Facebook and they told us as much: "Patents should never be taken as an indication of future plans; nor do we generally comment on specific coverage of Facebook patents or reasons for filing them," a spokesperson said.
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Nokia, which has a highly lucrative portfolio of patents inherited from the time when it was a leading mobile phone maker, said it had started talks with carmakers and their primary suppliers in 2015 on the use of its patents.
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Five years ago, trolls favored fluffy business method patents that were granted during the dot-com boom, when companies eagerly filed patents for basic things you could do with the Internet, like sell books, hyperlink content or publish online press releases.
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Documents and communications referring or relating to whether Mylan has, or intends to extend, any existing patents or FDA market exclusivity, or file any new patents, for the extended shelf-life formulation of the EpiPen as you described during the hearing.
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Bryson said a group of patents Allergan obtained on Restasis, which are set to expire in 2024, should not have been granted because they describe methods of treatment that were obvious in light of earlier patents granted to the company.
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North CEO and co-founder Stephen Lake tells me that his company is acquiring 230 patents or applications along with some "technology and assets," which will mean the company should have over 650 patents by the end of the year.
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The company has already filed for 15 blockchain-related patents and is currently in the process of drafting another 20 to be submitted to the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO) later this month, a spokesperson told CNBC on Wednesday.
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But Qualcomm has been defusing tensions by making it easier for customers to license just the smaller, lower-cost set of standard patents and by adding patents for the next generation 5G wireless network to the suite at no additional cost.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amid growing concerns by some U.S. lawmakers that federal officials may be granting patents that fuel abusive litigation, the head of the European Patent Office says his agency is producing better-quality patents than its American counterpart.
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But Qualcomm has been defusing tensions by making it easier for customers to licence just the smaller, lower-cost set of standard patents and by adding patents for the next generation 5G wireless network to the suite at no additional cost.
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Modern technology pays the legacy forward: Apple founder Steve Jobs is named on 28500 U.S. patents; Sergey Brin, president of Google parent Alphabet, is named on numerous patents related to data extraction, search query and voice interface, to name a few.
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The only way to stop abuse of the process is for the USPTO to be forced to do its job and actually reject bad patents, rather than rubber stamping as many patents as possible to drive up its number of applications.
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U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Delaware ruled Wednesday that London-based Hikma does not induce doctors to infringe Japan-based Takeda's patents by selling its drug Mitigare, because Mitigare is not indicated for the uses covered by Takeda's patents.
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And when the USPTO was attacked in the media for issuing patents on crustless peanut butter sandwiches and a method of swinging on a swing, a push was made to create a post-issuance review process to address poor quality patents.
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In announcing the deal, Allergan said it believed the Restasis patents would no longer be subject to review by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an administrative court empowered to cancel patents through a process called inter partes review.
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The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, which oversees many intellectual property cases, upheld lower court rulings that Dr. Reddy's did not infringe two Indivior patents related to Suboxone, and Alvogen did not infringe one of those patents.
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After all, if not for low-quality patents (it's not just my opinion, the U.S. appeals court that originally found some of Apple's controversial patents to be invalid would likely agree), we would not even be having this discussion right now.
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They may acquire unused patents or they may patent general or obvious ideas — like the basic credit card and podcast patents that I mentioned — and use them to shakedown those who inadvertently stumbled into their unjustifiably patented territory, patent traps.
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Asked to determine the validity of three of plaintiff Metaswitch Networks Ltd's patents in the case, and three of defendant Genband U.S. LLC's patents, the jury said all of their claims should never have been granted in the first place.
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But Boston-area patent-holders who grew up in Silicon Valley are very likely to have computer-related patents, whereas those who grew up in Minneapolis where there's a robust medical device industry are likely to have medical device patents.
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He said the 403 IBN Consent Decree, which allowed, basically it said to AT&T, Consent Decree, which said that Western Digital needed to share their patents, and their patents were for transistors, really led to the spawning of Silicon Valley.
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Apparently, Caltech's inventor wasn't originally thinking of using the data transmission patents for Wi-Fi specifically, according to this passage in the story: Apple and Broadcom's lawyer Joseph J. Mueller of WilmerHale pointed out that the patents had only been licensed once, and that their co-inventor, Hui Jin, testified he had never considered using the patents for Wi-Fi until he heard Broadcom and Apple might be infringing them.
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It's worth noting, though, that this list of patents hasn't been updated since 2014.
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It also points to two other instances in which separate patents were allegedly violated.
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Those patents are said to cover power management and the iPhone's Force Touch feature.
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Takeover targets have their own research teams, patents, clients and, sometimes, lavish state subsidies.
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In this case, Allergan wants to protect its patents from generic drug company challenges.
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In October 2017, a district judge invalidated some of Restasis' patents through another channel.
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The lapsed patents for these systems, however, pointed the team in the right direction.
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It took a while after Epperson's light bulb moment for popsicle patents to emerge.
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Anyone can be a target of patent aggression, regardless of whether they own patents.
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If awarded, broad patents also concentrate economic wealth and power over essential scientific knowledge.
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Patents are treated as a trophy, a symbol that conveys credit for an innovation.
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IBM, Facebook, Ford Motor and Walmart are spending tens of billions on blockchain patents.
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Two of the patents relate to Prodigy, IBM's late-1980s precursor to the web.
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In a competitive market, there is too little incentive to innovate (hence drug patents).
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Companies file patents frequently and it doesn't mean the technology will ever become reality.
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Huawei is one of the world's most prolific generators of high-quality international patents.
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Apple alleges it owns at least eight battery life patents that Qualcomm has violated.
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Apple and Qualcomm are locked in a series of legal battles relating to patents.
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All the cases revolve around the peculiar model of how Qualcomm licenses these patents.
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In 2018, Nike secured 867 patents, according to analysis by the Portland Business Journal.
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Europe produces only a quarter of the American number of patents per million people.
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But Nokia is transferring these patents to PAEs in order to aggressively pursue money.
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The lawsuit covers 32 patents, including display, user interface, software, and video-coding technology.
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It was an "obvious" development of the technology, so Zhang's patents are without merit.
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Humira, a top-selling immunosuppressant, is ensconced in a web of 100 interlocking patents.
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As usual, we don't know whether Apple is building products based on these patents.
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Cade is a wisecracking inventor ("patents are pending") who has become a wanted man.
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And so it was that Retro Patents was set up to scratch an itch.
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"I'm obviously biased but I really do think patents make good art," answers Watson.
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It has also acquired two cloud gaming pioneers, Gaikai (2012) and OnLive (patents, 2015).
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In the US, a jury recently agreed that Apple violated three of Qualcomm's patents.
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Historically, startups could obtain venture capital by trotting out a portfolio of issued patents.
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And patents have expanded in scope, to include things like software and business methods.
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Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, which had to hastily remove 80 patents on Oct.
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They were made in places that boasted above average numbers of patents per person.
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Segway holds over 26 patents involving technology that allows so-called hoverboards to balance.
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Seemingly aware of the potential for Huawei to use patents against U.S. companies, Sen.
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At stake are Lytro's 59 patents related to light-field and digital imaging technologies.
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"They are cranking out a lot of innovation and patents around cybersecurity," says Richard.
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By making its patents available for free, Tesla empowers others to build electric vehicles.
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Patent pools bundle together related patents covering the building-block components of complex products.
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Qualcomm collects license fees from smartphone makers for using its patents in their devices.
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Google Inc's application for 'Tez' in the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks.
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Apple has floated a few goggle patents over the years, but I'm not convinced.
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The University of California and University of Vienna are also named on the patents.
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They receive rising shares of U.S. patents in computing, electronics, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
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Koh also said Qualcomm must license its patents to rival chipmakers like MediaTek Inc.
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It's far from being the first time Apple patents covering foldable devices have surfaced.
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The patents also don't serve as evidence that Apple is developing a foldable device.
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The court upheld the constitutionality of a procedure that eases challenges to questionable patents.
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Waymo says that Uber "misappropriated" its trade secrets, and infringed upon its held patents.
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According to the regulator, Qualcomm should have shared more patents with other chip makers.
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Between them is a combined 6,000 issued and pending patents, according to the report.
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Lyft's patents are more focused, specifically on the development of an improved rider experience.
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It also could help to make those filing for patents think twice before applying.
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As always with patents, it's hard to say how seriously Apple is considering this.
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Usually, the only way to pay back [lenders'] loans is to sell the patents.
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Two of the prominent scientists involved in the project said patents were a possibility.
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Go deeper: Forbes takes a closer look at Facebook's patents for detecting users' emotions.
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It's also a smart move for another part of Nokia's remaining business: its patents.
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In 2015, those predictions led to multiple patents surrounding more human-like computing technology.
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As Bracha points out, early patents and copyrights were not understood to involve ideas.
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Futurewei has filed more than 2,100 patents across telecommunications, video, 5G, and camera technologies.
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Patzer is hugely experienced in Machine Learning, having about a dozen patents in algorithms.
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But just because more are being invalidated, it doesn't mean software patents are over.
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These complaints often feature dubious infringement claims asserting weak and sometimes outright invalid patents.
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There is little empirical evidence of the effects of patents on clean energy technology.
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Colt's AR-15 patents expired decades ago, and today there are numerous imitations available.
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A couple patents, trademarks, and redesigns later, the modern-day Teva sandal was born.
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However, Amgen failed in its first attempt to invalidate two patents on Humira formulations.
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Editor's note: The writer holds three worldwide patents that relate to aflatoxin in tobacco.
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It could soft-pedal efforts to combat the piracy of American patents and copyrights.
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Align clashed over patents with 3Shape, Clear Correct and Your Smile Direct this year.
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Cellectis said it intended to make the three patents available for future licensing deals.
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To be sure, most patents are never commercially produced or even seriously tested internally.
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Many of these studies drastically discount, or simply ignore, the clear benefits of patents.
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The patents are held by Meridian Medical Technologies, which is now part of Pfizer.
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Prometheus, saying it should not bar patents on applications of a newly discovered phenomenon.
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But Davis kept innovating, eventually accumulating more than 30 patents for technology he developed.
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They registered a series of successful patents that led them into the tire business.
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One of the first patents for such a device was awarded to Paul Winchell.
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And they did so with some of the most complex patents you've ever seen.
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It said on Thursday it had now filed 40 patents suits in 11 countries.
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It's worth noting that patents do not necessarily indicate the car will be produced.
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The Brazilian judge this week wrote that the existence of patents was beyond doubt.
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Patents expire typically 7 to 10 years after a new medicine hits the market.
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The patents involve methods for enabling and securing real-time communications over the internet.
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Counties where colleges arose generated 32 percent more patents than places that missed out.
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The drugmaker's specialty business has been losing ground since Copaxone ran out of patents.
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The infringed upon patents are not found in either the Wikipad or Gamevice products.
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They're part of a larger series of Apple patents the office published on Thursday.
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Earlier this year, the office similarly asked for public opinion on AI and patents.
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The company said Uber's current lidar design still violates one of its original patents.
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In the pharmaceutical and tech industries in particular, profits are often tied to patents.
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Companies had sold the rights to their patents to subsidiaries in offshore tax havens.
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Both have worked in Silicon Valley and hold patents in a variety of fields.
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These principles will rebalance the system to make patents a reward for true innovation.
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Facebook's 169 patents in the Optical Elements category marked a nearly six-fold jump.
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