D, patent, publication, university tenure and even a higher income compared to the general population.
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"This whole notion that you'd grant a patent to anyone who adds a seam or two to a waistband is quite problematic, " said Ilse Metchek, the president of the California Fashion Association, a trade group that represents some manufacturers, domestic and international garment suppliers, and others close to the fashion industry.
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If ever there were a purgatory for ideas, it'd be the USPTO's patent application database.
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We've heard it shouted from the mountaintops more times than we'd care to mention: the patent system is fundamentally broken.
In fact, the two filed notice with the Patent Office in Washington, D.
Meier and her staff of eight have never been visited by any patent office officials from Washington, D.
The company was nothing more than a business plan, a couple of patent applications and two founders who'd met a month before.
Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.
And the first rumblings of a rights-management system for controlling the sharing of physical things are appearing: The IP-hoarding firm Intellectual Ventures received a patent in October for a 3-D printer feature that blocks the creation of verboten objects.
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Maebius, a patent lawyer and partner with Foley and Lardner in Washington, D.
"There are those of us who genuinely love these things and see something in them that a lot of people don't see, but it doesn't really convert to a commercial reality, " says Donald Kelly, the former executive director of the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, who now runs Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a Washington, D.
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