Google was too busy actually innovating to waste time filing thousands of patent applications.
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Meanwhile, the USPTO has a huge backlog of 1, 000s of software patent applications to review.
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Partly as a result, The number of design-patent applications awarded has increased significantly in recent years.
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By 2020, China intends to quadruple patent applications domestically and in foreign countries, a staggering number.
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Eighty percent of patent applications are rejected for failing to clear those first hurdles.
The company ranked second in patent applications last year, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
American patent applications tailed off during the recession, but only after doubling in the decade before.
In 2000 Americans filed six times as many patent applications as Chinese residents did.
InterDigital, which is based in Philadelphia, owns more than 19, 500 mobile communications patents and patent applications.
And the backlog of patent applications has been reduced to its lowest point in years.
Patent applications filed before that date can still realize the benefits of the first-to-invent system.
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Patent lawyers in attendance would capture and translate fresh ideas into patent applications.
Such assessment is easier if the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reviewed any relevant patent applications.
In addition to the company's growth in global market shares, ZTE sustained its strength in patent applications.
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The number of utility patent applications filed in the United States last year exceeded half a million.
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The PTO generally has become more efficient at reviewing design-patent applications, often taking just months from application to grant.
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The ETC Group says it will be writing to Dr Venter asking him to withdraw his institute's patent applications.
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The number of patent applications was almost flat for 2007-2009, but is now up over 10% from those levels.
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There are now 14 clinical trials supported by MRA and 13 patent applications.
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The number of patent applications where this ever becomes an issue is a tiny, tiny (did I mention TINY?) percentage.
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You know how much we love patent applications especially Apple's patent applications, since they love to stonewall everyone on their plans.
The difference is that 15 years ago, Microsoft invested in the army of lawyers it takes to file thousands of patent applications.
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Patent applications in these fields are now the province of large industrial or academic research laboratories, backed by armies of corporate lawyers.
It said it was "not prepared" to license any of the 64 patents and 22 pending patent applications that apply to VP8.
The company was nothing more than a business plan, a couple of patent applications and two founders who'd met a month before.
Plans for a modernizing effort are afoot, and Rogan says that he is considering a requirement that all patent applications be filed electronically.
With an average pendency of almost 3 years, there are over 1.2 million patent applications now pending, and over 700, 000 awaiting initial review.
The Patent Office, the institution right at the center of protecting and promoting innovation, now receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically.
Patent applications filed today will take nearly 40 percent less time to receive an initial patentability determination on their innovation compared to January 2009.
Before you get too excited, lets remember two things: one, companies file patent applications for things all the time that never see the light of day.
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