EU. They want protection from those generic-drug firms tempted to copy their products, which may lack European patents.
An electrical engineer with a PhD. from Stanford and 129 U.S. and European patents under her belt, Johnson joined the Obama administration after serving as provost of Johns Hopkins University and Dean of Engineering at Duke University.
Over time Michelson won or has applied for 900 patents, including European counterparts.
This is an argument that has had especial success in the European Union where such design patents are taken more seriously than they are in many other places.
Samsung has stopped seeking sales bans for Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad in lawsuits in five European countries, apparently after being warned by the European Commission against abusing its ownership of patents essential for standards such as 3G networking.
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Each year, more patents are applied for in America than in the European Union.
Design patents (as opposed to technical ones) are European Union wide.
Apple does seem to have better luck in fighting it out over patents in the US courts than it does in the European ones.
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It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter.
It says the European Patent Office (EPO) has shown itself willing to grant thousands of software patents - and worries the EU could end up with a system in which appeals against such judgements are decided according to the EPO's own rules.
Only Slovenia, with 42 patents per 1m population in the 2000-2003 period, comes anywhere close to the western European average of 200.
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