The search giant added 24, 500 more patents to its existing patent bank.
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Justice Alito therefore applied that holding to the context of Section 271 (b): actual knowledge of an existing patent is needed to prove induced patent infringement.
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The deal also extends the existing patent cross-licensing deal between the two companies, and includes a NAND flash memory supply agreement for Samsung to provide chips to Seagate for solid-state drives and other products.
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This deal is significant not only for the money Nokia has earned (and will accumulate over time) but for the elimination of existing and pending patent disputes in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
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The existing criteria for a patent should be applied with greater vigour.
Launching Sarafem doesn't just allow Lilly to make more money off an existing compound before the patent runs out, although it certainly does that.
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.
Now our broken system allows applicants to patent obvious tweaks to existing technologies, and abstract, jargon-filled descriptions of commonplace activities conducted with a computer.
"The Ariad position is equivalent to discovering that gravity is the force that makes water run downhill and then demanding the owners of all the existing hydroelectric plants begin to pay patent royalties on their use of gravity, " says Armitage.
These are the so-called line extensions where companies simply tweak existing drugs enough to earn a new patent.
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In the meantime, DuPont AIDS drug Sustiva fits in with Bristol's two HIV treatments, and DuPont anti-coagulant Coumadin meshes with Bristol's existing heart drugs, even though no patent protects it.
Using extensive patent analysis, Lin and colleagues examined which existing players did not succumb to the new entrants, and were able to contribute to the new technology.
Under existing regulations, generic firms can compete against an off-patent branded drug and battle for first-to-file, 180-day exclusivity to market a generic replacement.
Patent examiners typically focus their prior art searches on the database of existing patents.
Rights related to intellectual property such as patents and copyrights are particularly important because IP is both a reward for innovation (if I invent a better mousetrap I get to patent it) and an input to it (most new ideas are recombinations of existing ones).
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Under the existing system (which will remain in effect until 18 months from signing), if someone applies for a patent and you have evidence that you invented it first, you can institute an interference proceeding.
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