It might if a recently published patent application from the company actually pans out.
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Dr Venter said Celera had filed a preliminary patent application on this particular whole gene.
For that reason the patent application looks as though it could be storing up trouble.
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"Siri, show our readers the patent application" -- you'll find it at the source link below.
As of September 26, 2011, the USPTO now offers expedited patent application review, for a fee.
Well, that's just what Google's proposing in a patent application that's surfaced today.
They filed both an invention disclosure and patent application but have not marketed the tool.
If ever there were a purgatory for ideas, it'd be the USPTO's patent application database.
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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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We think we may have found the patent application in question, submitted in 2010 by SoftBank Mobile Corp.
However, in many other countries, the patent is awarded to the inventor who files the first 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.
Mr. Lichtman fails to note that each patent application is sent to an examiner already familiar with the technology involved.
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.
Sony thinks it has these problems licked through a newly-published patent application.
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He is then typically granted the sole right to sell the product for 17-20 years from the time the patent application was filed.
These days, budding inventors who struggle through the lengthy, legalistic procedure of filing a patent application usually find the process anything but inspiring.
An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
This patent application is much more concerned with viewing and interacting with the device, almost as a console, than it is with actually communicating.
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India's patent office rejected the company's patent application, arguing the drug was not a new medicine but an amended version of its earlier product.
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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The 2012 patent application offers details on more than a dozen separate metrics the company uses to rank news stories created by other Websites.
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These offices will help further reduce the patent application backlog and help local innovators raise capital and get their inventions to market more rapidly.
The overclaiming should lead to patent application denials on numerous grounds, including failure to enable, failure to satisfy the written description requirement, and obviousness.
In the filing, United States Patent Application 20100207721, Apple is asking for a patent on several methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device.
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