And many firms make a good living out of searching for or repackaging patent filings.
Clues that Apple is indeed exploring mobile payments can be found in its patent and patent filings.
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Dr Venter said he thinks Celera's tentative approach to patent filings makes sense.
They have huge economic growth but it hasn't resulted in patent filings overseas, for example, for many famous Chinese brands in overseas markets.
For example, in the past 5 years alone, patent filings from the PRC have increased five-fold compared with the previous 5 year period.
Meanwhile the evidence of international patent filings is looking increasingly ominous.
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Memo to any promoters of spelling bees: Check the patent filings.
He formed Light Bioscience in March 2000, subsidizing his research and patent filings with a second mortgage on his house and a loan against his life insurance policy.
In recent Senate testimony, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith cited Alex Kipman, a native of Brazil who was the primary inventor for 60 patent filings and one of the fathers of Kinect.
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The competitive outlook on patents is also troubling, as China has set a national goal of two million patent filings in 2015, about four times as many as the latest number of annual U.S. filings.
Between 2001 and 2007, the number of patent litigation filings in East Texas rose by 1, 124%.
To help provide easily searchable information on this timely topic, my tech trade association has launched a new website, Patent Progress, to be an online resource on high tech patent issues with copies of filings as well as breaking news and commentary.
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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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Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to public filings.
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