They never saw a patent right or copyright that they did not like or want augmented.
Mei said in the paper on Wednesday that her company applied for patent rights for Xiaoi in 2004 in China and the patent right went into effect in 2006.
Nokia has regular incomes from its patent portfolio (right now, this income is around 500 million euros per year, and it is still increasing).
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The appellate board, which is based in the southern city of Chennai, said the patent authority was right in allowing a compulsory license for Nexavar as Bayer hadn't priced the drug at "reasonably affordable" rates.
The Patent Office, the institution right at the center of protecting and promoting innovation, now receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically.
When the drug goes off patent, that exclusive right vanishes and the drug loses much of its value.
Once the protection expires, the first company to challenge the patent gets an exclusive right to sell the copy for 180 days.
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Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.
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And if a patent is valid, the branded producer has a right to deny the generic drug maker access to the market until that patent expires.
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While a drug is protected by a patent, the company has the exclusive right to sell it--and that often results in a single drug bringing in sales of billions of dollars.
The Supreme Court has already said that abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature cannot be given a patent, which gives an inventor the right to prevent others from making, using or selling a novel device, process or application.
This is part of the contract that forms the basis for the patent system: in exchange for teaching the public how to practice the invention, a patent holder is granted a time-limited right to exclude others from doing so.
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Patent a miracle drug, choreograph the pricing just right and you recover your sunk costs efficiently, earn a good profit and move on to your next miracle.
At root, this case tests whether courts can realistically enforce their judgments, including, as in this case, the judgment that a patentee has been denied the right to control the use of its patent.
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Just as Coca Cola has protected its soft drink formula from Pepsi and other competitors for more than a century under U.S. Patent law, these frac contractors also have the right to protect their patented compounds and formulas.
She also noted that due to the way one of Apple's witnesses argued how much the company should be awarded per device for each infringed patent, it was hard to reasonably calculate the right amounts based on various timelines about when Samsung was informed it had been infringing and how much money it had made since.
The Department of Energy has applied for a patent on the technology, and Halstead's company has the right to an exclusive license.
Our patent law principles were intended to foster innovation by giving innovators the temporary right to prevent others from copying their inventions.
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Right now there is a lot more dread about drugs that will lose patent protection than there is excitement about the company's experimental medicines, even though Pfizer is now testing 47 midstage compounds, more than at any other time in its history.
He is then typically granted the sole right to sell the product for 17-20 years from the time the patent application was filed.
Patent geeks out there, please chime in: Do you think the USPTO is on the right track?
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Berto did, however, manage to tattoo Guerrero with right uppercuts and right-hand counters punches for which Mayweather might as well own the patent.
Not only could the combination pill be a blockbuster in its own right, but it could preserve the Lipitor franchise for another decade after the drug loses patent protection, probably in 2010.
In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.
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Proven by our growing patent portfolio, we are committed to continue our innovation efforts in addressing the need for storage with the right cost-performance mix.
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There are over 800, 000 slot machines in the U.S. and right now a minimum of 3, 000 and perhaps 10, 000, and growing, are allegedly patent infringing group slot machines.
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