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Before, if we could just get a patent on the initial compound, we felt we were home free.
BBC: Protecting that great idea with a patent
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Perhaps now we know exactly why it's not so big here in the States because somebody, somehow, managed to get a patent on the idea.
ENGADGET: Mobile carriers lose patent suit on prepaid calling plans
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They can get patent reform done and they can move forward on a number of other issues.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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So in 2009 the Finnish firm launched its patent broadside, accusing Apple of trying to get a free ride on its innovation with the iPhone.
BBC: Nokia��s patent victory against Apple
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It takes little more than a nod to get me started on free trade, land use controls, patent policy, employment discrimination laws, public unions, drug regulation and tort reform.
FORBES: U.S. Government: Too Big To Succeed?
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If an ongoing FTC investigation, and the troubling circumstances allegedly arising from it, is any indication, the Commission may be willing to go quite a bit further than filing suit or jaw-boning Congress to get its way on patent settlements.
FORBES: One Federal Agency��s Crusade Against Patent Litigation Settlements
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As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.
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