Hillcrest has more than 50 issued patents, with more than 200 applications pending, for its ground breaking technology, and has received numerous accolades for its products.
The PTO multiplied the total number of all patent applications filed by the rate at which all issued patents might potentially be subject to a charge of inequitable conduct historically.
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Over sixty percent of issued patents now cover software.
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The idea is to set up a process so patent owners can proactively clean up issued patents in advance of potential litigation, eliminating uncertainty and strengthening the patents for business planning, licensing, or acquisition deals.
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Nano-composite plastics are going to be a major component of nano-enhanced food packaging, and Nanocor has more than 40 issued patents in its intellectual property portfolio, primarily regarding the creation of nanoclays and nanomer surface treatments.
Thus far, it has 50 issued patents and at least 250 filed patents, many of them gene and viral targets that may be the focus of RNAi drugs developed by Sirna itself or other companies in the future.
InterDigital, as it happens, is a technology company that specializes in patent licensing: the company notes on its Web site that it has 8, 800 U.S. and foreign issued patents and almost 10, 000 pending applications, almost all related to wireless communications.
ADM's new plastic, backed by 130 issued or pending patents, comes from tiny biotech Metabolix of Cambridge, Mass.
The company has more than 4, 500 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
The company has more than 5, 000 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
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The company has two patents issued and five pending on its intellectual property.
Research at universities has shown diminishing returns in terms of papers published and patents issued per dollars of funding.
If Goldman looks at patents issued to most software products companies they are very specific and not at all abstract.
Of the 25, 000 or so U.S. patents issued to independent inventors in 1997, only 5% will make it to market.
Dietz has 20 patents issued in the application and network performance areas.
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Consider that China and India each now graduate more engineers and scientists per year than the U.S. The U.S. share of patents issued here has fallen below 50%.
Patents issued to Chester Carlson, Ted Hoff, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, inventors of the photocopier, microprocessor and personal computer, respectively, are examples.
Last year, the PTO issued 21, 356 design patents, 65% more than the 12, 951 it issued in 2005.
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Most American patents are issued to firms, and most firms seem to support the proposed changes.
More than 5 million patents have been issued in the U.S. since the first patent law of 1790.
The company holds more than 5, 500 issued, allowed or filed patents worldwide, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
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With all the billions spent on research and development, some 3, 000 individual patents have been issued for various processes and designs.
Another problem is the prospect that the present bill may clear the way for patents to be issued for inventions of human organisms - a moral and ethical concern of the first order.
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And the Salt Lake City, Utah company cites some 3, 000 patents that have been issued on isolated sequences of DNA since 1982 as evidence there is no constitutional bar to patenting genes.
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Eventually the patent database becomes rich enough with prior art to reach an equilibrium, but the errors in the interim produce a batch of legacy patents that never should have issued.
This will be the second trip to the Supreme Court for the Myriad case, which the high court sent back to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington in March for reconsideration after it issued a decision narrowing the scope of allowable patents.
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Last year, the USPTO issued a record-high of 219, 614 utility patents, nearly one-third more than the previous year and the steepest annual increase on record, according to IFI analysis.
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Last week, Apple received a favorable outcome when the ITC issued its claim construction order, siding with Apple's interpretations of two patents -- for those who aren't familiar, claim construction is the process by which the judge determines the meaning of specific terms in the claims, and it often has great influence on findings of infringement (or non-infringement).
However, some potential buyers may be wary after the US International Trade Commission issued a ruling in May saying that one of the company's "preview image" patents was invalid because of its "obviousness".
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