To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
Last year he was approached by lawyers who told Mobley that they now owned the patents.
He eventually signed after tracking down the true owner of the patents: Intellectual Ventures.
At issue is the viability of hundreds of thousands of patents and the products behind them.
The firm buys patents and licenses them for royalties or sues to enforce them.
We have virtually all of the patents as far as the critical materials are concerned.
The current suit was originally brought by Aventis CropScience NV, which alleged Dow infringed four patents.
In addition to patent trolls and privateers, the sheer volume of patents is another overwhelming issue.
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It also occurs when a company simply transfers patents on its own to a troll.
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Other NPEs, however, strategically assert valid patents against actual infringers, often in collaboration with independent inventors.
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The second thing is that GE has a patent -- and I believe in patents.
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Almost 225 solar patents were recognized, followed by over 170 patents in wind energy.
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Instead, he continued to file patents on his newest ideas, even as he drove us forward.
That case, argued last week, involves patents on human genes that are associated with breast cancer.
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Liivak thinks the Supreme Court, or possibly Congress, should consider a similar approach toward gene patents.
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China also now ranks 4th globally for new patents, up from tenth place in 2005.
The best software patents may not be as good as the best pharmaceutical patents.
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During the patents court case Apple revealed it had licensed some of its technologies to Microsoft.
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Last year a major U.S. biotech firm invited him up to learn more about his patents.
In the case of BRCA1 and BRCA2, the patents are held by Myriad Genetics.
D. in computer architecture from the University of Wisconsin and 27 patents to his name.
Pharmaceuticals are profitable only while patents protect them--keeping generic companies from creeping in with cheap knockoffs.
What that "stuff" is isn't clear since Intellectual Ventures hasn't yet been awarded any new patents.
Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in renewable energy patents filed by Chinese inventors.
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At the trial, Apple convinced the jury that Samsung had infringed its iPhone and iPad patents.
The patents case encompassed 14 products that Apple said Samsung had used Apple patented designs in.
And they innovate more than large businesses do, generating 13 times more patents per employee.
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Some four hundred patents came out of the Menlo Park Laboratory between 1876 and 1884 alone.
If I was Page, I would have pulled the trigger on this deal for the patents.
It is far more likely that the patents prevented additional research on the BRCA genes.
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