The Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lipperhey submitted his application for a patent on 2 October 1608.
The application for this patent was first filed in 1990 and has been rejected, modified, re-submitted, opposed, and updated during the course of its prosecution.
As proposed, any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability, whether known or unknown at the time of the invention or application for a patent, would not qualify.
Techradar runs this story on its application for a patent for eye tracking to create 3D depth, an area Samsung is also pursuing through its relationship with the Russian Academy of Science.
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This is true despite the fact that prior to filing a patent application a thorough search is typically performed, looking for any publication that might block a patent from issuing, and that a patent application is only filed when chances for obtaining a patent appear good.
The USPTO has also published for review a proposed fee schedule that will expand an existing 50 percent discount on patent application fees for small entities.
In the filing, United States Patent Application 20100207721, Apple is asking for a patent on several methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device.
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Researchers at Toshiba receive a one-time payment when an application is made for a patent.
He is listed as an inventor on a patent application for using prasugrel to treat vascular disease.
Nikolaidis and colleagues have submitted a patent application for the filter they developed.
Exhibit A: Apple's new patent application for a wireless display.
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He has filed a provisional patent application for his research.
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In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.
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"At this point, there are no plans for deployment, so there is no talk of funding, " she said, adding that it could take up to 18 months for the patent application to be approved.
In part for this reason, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is likely to see increased numbers of provisional applications, which if done properly can be a cost-effective way to obtain an early priority date for a patent application.
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As of September 26, 2011, the USPTO now offers expedited patent application review, for a fee.
An interesting precedent will be provided by the outcome of a pending Nintendo patent application regarding methods for MMOG players to collectively alter a virtual environment without directly interacting with each other. (In filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during 2012, Nintendo has substantially narrowed the claims with respect to those in the original 2010 application.) Nintendo, of course, is a game company, not an individual player.
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For that reason the patent application looks as though it could be storing up trouble.
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When a company applies for a patent, the application is examined by a government bureaucrat called a patent examiner.
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Ironically, the current Patent Office may approximate the ideal for government bureaucracies -- its costs are completely covered by patent application and other fees charged to inventors.
Sports car maker Ferrari SpA, for one, has filed a patent application that indicates the company is evaluating technology that would embed wireless electrodes in a car seat's headrest to monitor drivers' brain waves for stress as they pilot machines capable of roaring up to 200 miles per hour.
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In any case, that's about all we can glean from the patent application, but feel free to peek for yourselves if you feel like letting your imaginations get ahead of you.
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He is then typically granted the sole right to sell the product for 17-20 years from the time the patent application was filed.
If ever there were a purgatory for ideas, it'd be the USPTO's patent application database.
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Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.
An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
The guts of the present patent application (No. 206338) concern the mechanical and laser systems required to compensate for large, initial variations (as in head size) as well as smaller ones like temperature and head movements in order to create a reliable active alignement between the stereo images.
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