In total the Patent Office rejected 17 claims in the patent but approved three.
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The patent office has agreed to review the patent, with a decision due this summer.
More than 375, 000 ideas for products and processes, designs and logos, reach the patent office yearly.
The Patent Office issued the letter in January, although it has only just emerged.
Because the patent office has a searchable online patent database, this only took about 20 minutes.
India's patent appeal board, in 2009, confirmed the patent office's rejection of Novartis's application.
India's patent appeal board, in 2009, confirmed the patent office's rejection of Novartis' application.
"I love the tradition of this office, " says James Rogan, the director of the patent office.
The patent office and lower courts must now try to make sense of the ruling.
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It could take years for the Patent Office to decide whose patents are valid.
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He joined the patent office immediately rather than pursuing a postdoctorate in pure research.
Thousands were displayed in the Patent Office--a popular tourist attraction during the early 19th century.
S. 507 even allows the Patent Office to receive monetary or real property contributions.
One of the most futuristic of iWatch concepts just got a dose of validation from the patent office.
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Samsung has submitted the preliminary ruling from the patent office to judge Lucy Koh, who is considering appeals.
"Many of the issues have already been addressed successfully both in court and before the patent office, " Katz says.
Each week the patent office awards approximately 3, 500 new patents (and 2, 000 trademarks).
In fact, the two filed notice with the Patent Office in Washington, D.
Just before Bell had his famous conversation with Watson, Shulman points out, he visited the Patent Office in Washington.
He also serves on a federally appointed committee to advise the director of the patent office on policies and performance.
But Apple still has until July to persuade the Patent Office that the smaller tablet differs sufficiently from its iconic sibling.
Mr Modigliani and his fellow critics argue that privatising the Patent Office would subject it to more pressure from big corporations.
These NPEs must uncover evidence of infringement, rule out prior art and inequitable conduct, and interact at length with the patent office.
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As one commentator noted, online selling of digital goods was well underway before the Patent Office issued the Sharing Sound patent.
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They got congressmen on the Senate and House judiciary committees, which oversee the patent office, to lobby Jon W. Dudas, its director.
This LG concept, however, is probably destined for a dusty filing cabinet at the patent office, where it's unlikely to surface again.
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The Patent Office, the institution right at the center of protecting and promoting innovation, now receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically.
Evidently the Patent Office thought so, at least when Severinsky, now a U.S. citizen, presented it as the ideal balance between performance and cost.
More than anything, he depends on the patent office's technological system.
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