It gives Google a hardware platform and patent protection for key aspects of its Android operating system.
Over 90% of software is pirated and patent protection is patchy.
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On Feb. 5, INPI will publish its decision on the matter in the Industrial Property Magazine, which services as the official bulletin of record for trademark and patent protection.
With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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The products and services the Department provides touch the daily lives of Americans and American companies in many ways, including weather forecasts, the decennial census, and patent and trademark protection for inventors and businesses.
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The cost crunch could be eased when both Pravachol and Zocor lose patent protection and go generic in two years, their prices plunging by 70%.
Novartis called the ruling a "setback for patients, " and said patent protection is crucial to fostering investment in research to develop new and better drugs.
In an effort to protect both patients and patent holders and to harmonize patent protection for various types of goods, World Trade Organization members established minimum standards for protecting and enforcing intellectual property.
Labs routinely turn naturally found molecules into innovative medicines and get patent protection.
And weakening patent protection means less incentive to invest in new drugs.
There are bills pending to open up insurance to foreign competition and confer patent protection on foreign-invented pharmaceuticals, both of which are reviled by the left.
Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb lose patent protection on Zocor and Pravachol next year, removing any incentive.
In this case, the company had a strong management team and financially committed founders, but it faced fairly stiff competition and had little patent protection.
For Pfizer, the stakes are high, because it hopes that torcetrapib will keep patients swallowing Lipitor, even as Zocor and Pravachol go generic this summer and Lipitor loses patent protection in 2011.
In particular, a designer may first seek and secure a design patent and then secondary meaning for trade dress protection of the design can be developed during the 14 years of design patent protection.
This case and others challenging the validity of patent protection call into question whether the patent office is abdicating its role of supporting inventors, both big and small, instead becoming an impediment to American innovation.
Companies expected their drugs would lose patent protection and go generic, as is happening now.
For anyone with an invention to sell, patent and intellectual property protection is their first priority.
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's patents on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer say patent protection should not be given to something that can be found inside the human body.
Generic drugs account for over 70% of all prescriptions written in the U.S. Scores of branded drugs of increasing complexity are soon to lose their patent protection and become subject to generic competition.
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So fluid are their markets, and so weak the historical patent-protection in them, that bosses often prefer to keep things in the dark and come up with the next innovation as necessary to stay ahead of the competition.
Because the perceived quality of patent awards has deteriorated--critics complain that they were given almost indiscriminately to dot-coms for only the slightest changes in prior art--even minor patent applications must be carefully (and expensively) vetted by patent lawyers as protection against lawsuits by aggrieved patent holders.
To Amarin, NCE status can mean the difference between three and roughly five years of patent protection for Vascepa.
But the latter two have lost patent protection, and their sales are vanishing.
Firms in some countries, such as India, have been able to copy drugs much earlier than those in America and Europe because of weak patent protection.
The biggest controversy is whether Pfizer will spin off its established products unit, which sells generic drugs and branded medicines like Norvasc and Zoloft that have lost patent protection.
After a chemical loses its patent protection, and can be made in far cheaper generic versions, there is no financial incentive for a drug company to pay for large clinical studies.
EU's 20 official languages. (The cost of translation makes getting a patent in Europe far more expensive than in, say, America.) This would have created broad patent-protection and cut costs for inventors.
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The Court affirmed the decision rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, observing that, if purchasers were allowed to replicate the invention, there would be a mismatch between invention and reward and the patent would afford little protection to the inventor.
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