The judge ruled that patent number D558, 757 and patent number 7, 789, 697 were not violated.
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On March 6, 2012, without much fanfare the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple Patent Number 8, 127, 982.
The judge also ruled that Samsung violated three additional Apple (AAPL) patents, namely patent number D618, 678, patent number RE41, 922, and patent number 7, 912, 501.
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Reuters reports that on remand, the presiding administrative law judge reversed his stance in a new initial determination, clearing Microsoft of the remaining infringement charge for patent number 6, 069, 896 on wireless peer-to-peer technology.
Pfizer has been struggling to convince investors that it can withstand an unprecedented number of patent expirations despite a scant number of experimental drugs in clinical trials.
The Supreme Court in April raised the bar for receiving a patent, which could also have the effect of reducing the number of patent lawsuits.
He's widely credited with pioneering the color TV that we're familiar with today (and holding a related patent -- number 2920132 -- granted in December of 1953), while also publishing initial technical papers on transistor radios.
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Also adding to the anxiety: a Supreme Court decision in April setting higher standards for obtaining a patent and new rules from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month that, among other things, limit the number of continuing patent applications that can be filed.
The passage of the AIA drove down the number of defendants named in patent suits, but also drove up the number of suits filed by trolls.
Between 2001 and 2007, the number of patent litigation filings in East Texas rose by 1, 124%.
Over the past ten years, the number of patent lawsuits in America has doubled.
Apple and Samsung have fought a number of patent cases against each other in courts across the world.
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The general idea behind the overhaul is to establish better-quality patents and to reduce the number of patent lawsuits.
The number of patent applications was almost flat for 2007-2009, but is now up over 10% from those levels.
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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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However, after the enactment of the AIA, the number of patent cases filed by trolls against smaller companies increased significantly.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday evening passed a broad measure that aims to reduce the number of patent lawsuits.
The truth is that the number of patent infringement suits each year has held steady for seven years at just under 3, 000.
Absconding with those funds has left the PTO understaffed in relation to the number of patent applications it receives, so that it can take three years to approve a patent.
So the two countries, South Korea and Japan, with the largest number of patent applications per capita have extremely low fertility rates, indeed two of the lowest fertility rates in the entire world.
The number of utility patent applications filed in the United States last year exceeded half a million.
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Company number one sues company number two for patent infringement.
The patent pre-defines a number of gestures, such as ones for facial recognition, a selection gesture and a pointing gesture (to identify a specific section of an onscreen image).
The PTO multiplied the total number of all patent applications filed by the rate at which all issued patents might potentially be subject to a charge of inequitable conduct historically.
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One's perspective shifts easily, however, when targets change and the defendants themselves are no longer aggressively litigious corporations with an arsenal of filing cabinets spilling over with intellectual property, as was the case when one company used a recently granted patent to go after a number of podcasting networks.
Partly as a result, The number of design-patent applications awarded has increased significantly in recent years.
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But government officials believe the number of potentially anticompetitive patent settlements is increasing.
But in patent litigation, he might be number one, starting scores of lawsuits, often against large companies, and sometimes hitting jackpots.
Over the past three years its American Depositary Receipts more than doubled as an increasing number of drugs came off patent.
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