It is important not to rush to judgment based on emotionally-charged headlines about patent lawsuits or misleading articles and blog postings that get wrong even basic facts about the patent system.
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These are cheaper and more sustainable options for governments in low-income countries for the basic, off-patent medicines that are needed.
Moreover, the law does little to address the more basic problem of a patent system that has grown in expense for all kinds of companies that want to protect their ideas.
This patent is a basic outline of steps concerning how things will be fetched on the Web.
Simply make the basic rule about costs in patent cases loser pays.
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On a basic level, this is why patent trolling is so popular.
"I can't imagine getting a patent simply on the basic items of salt, flour and eggs, simply because I've created a new use or a new product from those ingredients, " she said.
It stipulates, among other things, standardised forms that all patent offices must accept, basic standards for electronic submission of patents, and mechanisms to avoid loss of rights due to non-essential formalities or unintentional delays.
Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.
Patent offices increasingly allow inventors to disclose little more than the basic idea.
Biotechnology companies patent genes, the very stuff of life, while scientists worry that this risks compromising basic research.
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