Well, that's just what Google's proposing in a patent application that's surfaced today.
He is listed as an inventor on a patent application for using prasugrel to treat vascular disease.
The backlogged Patent and Trademark Office can take up to four years to approve a patent application.
In fact, you can develop them sufficiently in an hour or two to support a patent application.
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Louis dog groomers, filed a patent application in 2000 that was later approved.
Nikolaidis and colleagues have submitted a patent application for the filter they developed.
The agreement also bars Australia's patent agency from approving generic versions of a drug while a patent application is pending.
No inventor filing a patent application expects the fee to help fund, say, the U.S. Department of Education or attacks on Libya.
These days, budding inventors who struggle through the lengthy, legalistic procedure of filing a patent application usually find the process anything but inspiring.
Cohan had a patent application ready, but decided to withdraw it.
This is according to a patent application the company filed that proposes, among other things, an advanced alarm clock that monitors brain waves to detect when you enter and leave REM sleep.
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In somewhat related news, Apple has also recently filed a patent application that would bring some fairly extensive new speech recognition options to the iPhone -- if it ever actually moves beyond a patent application, that is.
In part for this reason, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is likely to see increased numbers of provisional applications, which if done properly can be a cost-effective way to obtain an early priority date for a patent application.
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This is true despite the fact that prior to filing a patent application a thorough search is typically performed, looking for any publication that might block a patent from issuing, and that a patent application is only filed when chances for obtaining a patent appear good.
Sports car maker Ferrari SpA, for one, has filed a patent application that indicates the company is evaluating technology that would embed wireless electrodes in a car seat's headrest to monitor drivers' brain waves for stress as they pilot machines capable of roaring up to 200 miles per hour.
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One small firm, Sensaris, which makes wireless sensors to detect air pollution, has decided to make a filing under the international Patent Cooperation Treaty, which is a way of putting down a marker without the expense of a full patent application.
When a company applies for a patent, the application is examined by a government bureaucrat called a patent examiner.
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Dr Venter said Celera had filed a preliminary patent application on this particular whole gene.
According to the complaint, XPRT sent eBay a confidential patent application in 2001 that the auction giant later incorporated into its own patent application.
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He has filed a provisional patent application for his research.
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Nintendo's already dipped its toes into motion-sensing handheld gaming with the gyro-equipped WarioWare: Twisted for the Game Boy Advance, but it looks like the company looks has even grander plans to let you make a fool of yourself in public, at least if a recent patent application is any indication.
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An interesting precedent will be provided by the outcome of a pending Nintendo patent application regarding methods for MMOG players to collectively alter a virtual environment without directly interacting with each other. (In filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during 2012, Nintendo has substantially narrowed the claims with respect to those in the original 2010 application.) Nintendo, of course, is a game company, not an individual player.
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Exhibit A: Apple's new patent application for a wireless display.
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It might if a recently published patent application from the company actually pans out.
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Touchscreens are still something of a novelty on regular point-and-shoot cameras, but it looks like they may now already be starting to make their trek to DSLRs -- at least if a recently published patent application from Canon is any indication.
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Sony thinks it has these problems licked through a newly-published patent application.
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Researchers at Toshiba receive a one-time payment when an application is made for a patent.
The Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lipperhey submitted his application for a patent on 2 October 1608.
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