RiceTech has always maintained that its only aim was to stop other US food companies from copying its product.
Even if California gets to keep its carbon dioxide standard, Congress could pass legislation barring other states from copying it.
Our patent law principles were intended to foster innovation by giving innovators the temporary right to prevent others from copying their inventions.
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Real DVD also installs a new layer of digital-rights-management (DRM) code on files, blocking users from copying them more than five times to other computers.
However, BASC's James Scott warned that plans to add identification tags to each snare would not prevent anti-snaring campaigners from copying tags and illegally setting snares.
Similarly irrelevant are the protective locks that recording companies put on files to try to stop pirates from copying and sharing them, so called digital rights management systems.
For instance, AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) is fighting a massive court battle to keep generic drugmakers from copying its acid reflux drug, Prilosec.
The Broadcast Flag technology would have been mandatory on all digital television devices sold in the United States beginning in July, and it was intended to keep consumers from copying broadcast TV signals and transmitting them over the Internet.
When word leaked out about a week ago that Sony was using a copy-protection program to keep people from copying their music CDs, music lovers cried foul and security experts warned the XCP copy protection system could be hijacked by so-called Trojan horse programs.
Once again, Nokia calls on HTC to compete using its own innovations and to stop copying from Nokia.
Copying from Brazil, the next target of Argentina's new protectionism will probably be land.
Try as it might, Samsung cannot deflect attention from its own copying by the patents it has asserted against Apple.
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It was also worried about illegal copying from legal downloads.
"None of these revenue streams can be sustained if news organizations are unable to protect their news reports from the wholesale copying and redistribution by free-riders like Meltwater, " the filing said.
At times Mr. Muschietti seems to be the cinematic equivalent of an art student learning from the masters by copying them.
Robinson observes that Chinese innovators are starting to come up with their own ideas now rather than copying them from the West.
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At home, he was no longer copying illustrations from Collier's or photos from Look but studying from an art manual on the figure.
Pharmaceutical companies must worry less about squeezing additional profits from old medicines by copying the last successful drug and insisting on additional patent protections and focus more on new and innovative medicine.
Google is also promising that it will stop copying content from other websites to use in its summaries, even though the company had insisted the practice was legal under the fair-use provisions of US copyright law.
The technology feels like a step backward, from big mechanical machines using nineteenth-century technology to a new system that involves people copying information by hand from one piece of paper to another.
Copying and pasting from one role to another is not going to do anyone any favors.
He warned that "colouring in a map, endless copying of instructions from the board, or tedious word searches" did not amount to engagement.
The Europeans, who prided themselves on leading the world over privacy legislation, may now end up copying privacy rules from the other side of the Atlantic.
But magnetic tapes must be carefully stored and managed, which can include periodically copying important information from old tapes onto new ones to ensure that it can still be read.
These are all far from the absolute ban on copying that patents provide, and would solve the problem facing researchers who must isolate a patented gene sequence in order to study it.
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The law clearly prohibits someone from buying a patented item, copying it, and selling it, without permission.
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And while a few basic features are notable by their absence, like word count and copying and pasting to and from the desktop applications, support for new features are being added all the time.
Many bands, McArver says, are simply copying things they've heard from Western acts.
The Kaiser Chiefs started out copying hip American groups like The Strokes from New York City and Detroit's White Stripes.
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