At the same time, Patently Apple has learned that the Mac maker has patented a new way to charge the iPad by using a specially designed Smart Cover.
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But new, patented tests created with information gleaned from genome mapping have injected new life and higher margins (near 75%) into the business.
That money provides lots of incentive to develop new patented systems and methods along the way.
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Most locally produced drugs are generics, and new patented drugs are mainly imported and thus more expensive.
To deal with the problem, last December the company announced a new patented remedy, Nexium, as a successor to Losec.
If a technology being patented isn't new, it shouldn't warrant protection, Armitage argued.
But in "Scent of Mystery, " new, specific patented technology was developed to actually drive the plot.
DocuSign, a firm in Seattle founded in 2003, thinks it has now cracked this nut with a new (and patented) process that requires no software except a normal web browser.
Because each new crop of soybeans inherits the patented genetic innovation built into the original seeds, growers who wish to use these seeds agree to buy new seeds and sign a licensing agreement to use them only once.
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Its patented, low-power, responsive new technology is superior to the limited, camera-based approaches on the market.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups challenged Myriad's patents, arguing that genes couldn't be patented, and in March 2010 a New York district court agreed.
The market soon found another solution for glassmaking, a new type of coal furnace, patented in 1611 by Edward Zouch.
They essentially upheld the law as most patent lawyers understood it, and deliberately avoided making any new rules to define what can be patented.
Hopefully, as the FTC and DOJ hold more workshops, they will follow this example, abandoning rhetoric and instead calmly investigating how the patent system produces dynamic innovation, not just in products and services, but also in the many new business models that arise from this patented innovation itself.
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That cozy world is about to be shattered: Next year new laws will prohibit the cloning of medicines patented after 1995.
Since 1994 Smith has patented more than 90 inventions, most using nanoparticles to develop new types of insulation.
Luckily, however, it seems that the vast web of patented gene sequences is not stopping anyone from trying to discover new drugs.
Lacking genuinely new medicines or definitive proof that their costly, patented drugs work better than cheap ones, producers are forced to turn minor marketing advantages into billion-dollar opportunities.
But the pharmaceutical companies counter that they need to preserve longer the billions of dollars in revenue from their patented products in order to recover the billions they spend developing new drugs.
While Tiffany patented the Lucida diamond, a 50-facet square cut, New York's William Goldberg produced the antique-looking Ashoka variety.
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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