China also now ranks 4th globally for new patents, up from tenth place in 2005.
What that "stuff" is isn't clear since Intellectual Ventures hasn't yet been awarded any new patents.
Each week the patent office awards approximately 3, 500 new patents (and 2, 000 trademarks).
Other data point in a similar direction: rich economies spend more than ever on research, but the number of new patents has plateaued.
Google scheme to gut tax exposure in the U.K. through clever legal foot work in Dublin, have announced a new multinational tax rate of 10 percent on profits drawn off of new patents.
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And despite erasing 17, 000 jobs since the merger, HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) has gained market share in key categories, scored 3, 000 new patents and debuted 367 new products.
With its Achilles heel now diagnosed, Jawbone took crucial steps to reinvent Up: the creation of a proprietary standard for testing (which involved a device known as the "Big Shower 2000"), an investment in over 100-plus new patents, a product trial spanning 46 weeks and a revised assembly process.
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Leena Menghaney of Medicins Sans Frontieres said India would continue to grant patents on new medicines.
All three companies will contribute assets to the new venture, including patents, software, people, cash and capital equipment.
From the truss bridges of the 1800s to patented designs such as the Golden Gate in 1936, bridge design has led to patents and new technologies.
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It has an impressive collection of patents and new technologies.
Chandler will establish lucrative patents on any new diagnostic tests and collect royalties whenever they're used.
Either way, Nintendo is said to have secured patents for the new control methodology in Japan late last year.
With patents on the new technology used in manufacturing, China would control the intellectual property and licensing on the products that would be used all over the world.
Excited by the possibilities of her recent research results, Karen, a chemical engineering professor, decided it was time to file for patents on her new surface chemistry technology and create a business with a faculty colleague and two graduate students.
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They often form a sort of defensive bulwark designed to keep new competitors out of an industry because the sheer number of patents provide the tools for litigation over some aspect of any new invention.
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The Apple settlement signals a new found respect for trademarks and patents in China.
He has already carefully accumulated a series of basic patents to protect his new invention.
It is entirely possible, a spokesman says, to build a new system without treading on Honeywell patents.
If those new ideas can be protected by patents, capital providers will invest to get them off the ground.
Lululemon is trying to chart a new path by filing and litigating patents secured on the basis of its designs.
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IR Both you and my colleague Jeffrey Sachs agree that a lack of access to new medicines, protected by product patents, is a big problem.
With its smartphone business losing money, Nokia has continued its new-found strategy of using patents to generate cash by suing HTC, RIM and ViewSonic this year.
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Over the last 30 years, American educational institutions have ramped up their pursuit of patents, understanding that new ideas are a competitive advantage in a global marketplace.
That's what drives drug companies to spend massive amounts of money looking for new drugs: They need new blockbusters to replace drugs whose patents are running out.
There was plenty to say, and it seems most agree that there needs to be a new system to allow challenges to patents shortly after they're approved in order to avoid costly litigation later on.
Still, some scientists worry that big, broad patents could make developing new drugs even more difficult than it already is by adding so many levels of licensing and paperwork to the research process that it will be impossible to build on basic research to invent new drugs.
The firm--which previously originated mortgages and sold cleaning products--holds several patents, one covering a new kind of static RAM chip.
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