The Apple settlement signals a new found respect for trademarks and patents in China.
Alpha and the rest of the Digital technology, people and patents have, in effect, cost nothing.
The FTA also provides protection to U.S. investors and U.S. copyrights, trademarks and patents registered in Colombia.
Copyrights and patents can be gifted via a will, by trust or by gifts during your lifetime.
Aside from their rivalry in smartphone sales, Samsung and Apple have been locked in litigation over designs and patents.
Having nothing but brains and patents may be an infinitely more valuable model than owning oil fields and pipelines.
Research at universities has shown diminishing returns in terms of papers published and patents issued per dollars of funding.
The government will propose deleting section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - which could have some major implications.
The Newzbin case was brought under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.
And patents are virtually impossible for a small business to enforce.
In April 2011, Apple sued Samsung over smartphone designs and patents.
OnLive technology is backed by hundreds of patents and patents pending.
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As big pharmaceutical companies' drug pipelines thin out and patents on some of its blockbusters expire, alliances with biotech firms are increasingly holding the keys to the kingdom.
Even with credible government guarantees on liability and patents, and with government and universities between them doing the necessary basic research, would big pharma seek to develop and make these drugs?
It is only the third time the voting procedure has been used to enable a select group to go ahead with deeper integration, having previously been used for divorce and patents laws.
Examples are customer lists, licensing agreements and patents.
Intellectual property includes things like trademarks and patents.
Samsung denies infringing the patents, and it has leveled its own countercharges, alleging that Apple is violating Samsung's own patents related to how phones communicate and three patents concerning how phones handle pictures and music.
What really makes this entirely delicious is that there are many people who have said that TRIPS, this idea of adding copyright to the WTO, was the wrong way to go about protecting copyrights and patents.
Last week, Unwired Planet, a patent licensing company that once upon a time was an Internet services company called Openwave, announced a deal to acquire a portfolio of 2, 185 U.S. and international patents and patents pending from Ericsson.
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The second problem is that as you will see reading through the comments to the various pages linked above, the actual thing that has been patented is both trivial and obvious: and patents are not supposed to be granted for things that are either trivial or obvious.
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Lanphier licensed Klug's patents and the patents from MIT, Hopkins and Scripps.
Park, Lieber and several other noted nanotechies comprise the scientific advisory team and provide patents and consulting sessions. (The founders hold 20% of the company.) Bock wants Nanosys to build nanowire enabled modules--say, for a simple biosensor--which corporate partners could plug into more complex products.
We know that someone who's reading this has the clout to make this project happen, so here's your chance to grab this kid's idea for a song before he loses his youthful naivete and goes all Apple with the lawyers and the patents and stuff.
Motorola, after all, has been in the wireless business for many years and has a lot of patents, lots of cross licenses, and more patents in the pipeline.
As with all of Nokia's patents asserted against HTC in Germany, HTC believes that this patent is invalid and will be continuing with the invalidity actions pending before the German Federal Patents Court and the English Patents Court.
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On this development, Panasonic holds 18 domestic patents and 11 overseas patents, including pending applications.
Led since 2009 by Obama appointee and long time IBM veteran David Kappos, the PTO, depending on whom you ask, is credited with granting too many patents, granting too few patents and granting inferior patents.
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