We want to make it easier to start a business or patent an invention.
Left undecided until Thursday are the important honest services cases, which could spring former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, and Bilksi, the patent case that could upturn business-method patent law.
This meant building a team of anywhere from ten to fifty people to deal with all the complexities of the process: chemistry, biology, regulatory affairs, clinical medicine, finance, business development, patent strategy, etc.
More broadly, the fact that any company can demand protection for the basic shape of a device, years before it had invented the actual device or technology, should not entitle that company to claim that it had patented the design for a smartphone any more than Richard Branson can patent business class travel in outer space.
Nokia has 5 business parts, therefore patent portfolio is only 1 out of 5.
Incredibly, it would create an appointed Board of Advisors, some of whom could be employed by companies -- foreign or domestic -- with a vested interest in Patent Office business.
The sheer size of agri-business and the complexity of patent laws related to GE products have made quite a mess.
Internet phone upstart Vonage could be told to shut down its business Friday because of a patent dispute with telecommunications giant Verizon Communications .
Lando, an executive vice president at BTG, a British company that, along with the large consulting companies and law firms, is a longtime player in the patent-management business.
She was dressed in stylish business clothes black patent-leather high heels, a knee-length, copper-colored dress, and a short-waisted black jacket and looked more like a media executive than a food-industry chieftain.
Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.
This prompted Skyhook to sue for patent infringement and unfair business practices.
On balance, the availability of a patent for software or business methods provides little incentive to developers.
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Astra has one of the thinnest research pipelines in the drug business, and is facing big patent expirations.
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The company was nothing more than a business plan, a couple of patent applications and two founders who'd met a month before.
In addition, apart from phones, Nokia has other business units like NSN, Navteq and patent portfolio.
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But he notes that people are less likely to regard business methods as a valid subject of patent protection.
The Plavix patent expiry simply hit the business more slowly that expected.
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This is a nasty business of price wars, backstabbing and patent disputes, where rivals seem to spend as much time in court as they do out in the field.
Now, however, as these companies face a clear need to file more and file faster, they are additionally hard-pressed because they commonly rely on key business and engineering personnel to manage the patent process.
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It is a material issue for IP-rich businesses such as ours, because calls for action against patent trolls are growing stronger in business and government circles.
M-PESA, technically a business unit of Vodafone, which holds the patent for the idea, is now being implemented in South Africa by Vodacom, where Lonie acts as executive head of its mobile payments business.
It is directly tied to a patent system specifically geared to creative and business minded inventors.
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By purchasing a proven revenue generator, Marathon Patent Group is pursuing an unusually diversified business model versus a typical IP company.
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Patent officials should not be in the business of setting prices.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio.
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In September 2006, Solvay settled the patent litigation with the defendants, entering into business promotional agreements with both generics.
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When it comes to reforming the patent system, just about everyone in the business community has the same message for Congress: Slow down.
Such targeting of end users has led to calls from leaders in business and Congress to immunize such companies and individuals from patent lawsuits.
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Some days the patent-litigation news just seems to overwhelm the business section of your newspaper.
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