So Apple might just have to try patenting the rest of the industry, too.
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So it is simply factually inaccurate to say that Supreme Court precedent prohibits the patenting of software.
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He fell out with the NIH, however, over the issue of patenting DNA sequences called expressed sequence tags.
But unless the protein the gene makes is itself useful as a drug, patenting it is actually harmful.
There is no doubt that the Chinese government is placing a priority on innovation and, in particular, patenting technology.
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He also deals sensitively and sensibly with the very real ethical issue of patenting in the field of genetics.
Pharmaceutical companies are patenting all aspects of a drug's production, storage, packaging, route of administration and method of use.
What Lee ignored, however, is that the Supreme Court later retracted the blanket prohibition against patenting software in Diamond v.
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Samsung is seen as a particularly important catch for Russia, in part because it helps with the patenting of Russian science.
However, academic researchers never use patents as a measure of innovation prowess across industries because patenting patterns are very different across industries.
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Smaller companies can be more agile in identifying which innovations are worth patenting, and then acting quickly to take steps to protect them.
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Venter founded TIGR in 1992 after leaving the National Institutes of Health for complicated reasons that included a front-page controversy over patenting genes.
So I call on the Congress to pass legislation that bans unethical practices such as the buying, selling, patenting, or cloning of human life.
Since publication precludes patenting (or, depending on the country involved, reserves any patent rights to the publisher), it should stymie Celera and Dr Venter.
Andraka is in the process of patenting his invention and will soon be submitting his work for publication through the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Some people may value the enhanced reputation and network effects of freely revealing their work more than any money they could make by patenting it.
Dr Venter, a veteran of biotechnological scraps ranging from gene patenting to the private human-genome project, has been interested in bioenergy for a long time.
It is perhaps the most significant commercial development since patenting began.
The Supreme Court re-iterated its rule against patenting software in 1978.
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It looks like Google has considered transferring ideas from Project Glass over to your wrist by patenting a smart watch with a transparent, flip-up touchscreen.
Rather than patenting and licensing their designs, developers ask each other permission to mimic an idea or do so on their own, sometimes using open-source technology.
Failure to pick a system or a delay in implementation could allow foreign companies to grab a head start by patenting Asian medicines in their own countries.
Many scientists, including Salzberg, think the type of broad gene patents given to Myriad were a big mistake and are akin to patenting a product of nature.
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It said that without legal safeguards, information could fall into the hands of private companies, who might misuse it by patenting genetic information for their own use.
He and others claim that the new bill might drive inventors to avoid the patenting system altogether, and instead to guard their creations by using trade-secret laws.
Companies like Apple are patenting technologies that allow our phones to broadcast our identities to those around us and alert us when we have things in common.
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However, as I mentioned in my prior post, the PTO generally leans pro-patents and therefore may lack enthusiasm to fix any problems that result in over-patenting.
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It has concerns about other recent Internet developments, such as the patenting of web business models and processes, or the potential for abuse by dominant business-to-business exchanges.
The school is in the process of patenting a process in which dogs would sample the air left in the wake of travelers passing through an airport terminal.
Under the new law, any public use or offer to sell an invention (even if the functioning of it is not disclosed) becomes an immediate bar on patenting.
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