And as firms spend more on research and development, file more patents and license their intellectual property to others, so too are they increasingly resorting to the courts to chase down infringers.
So far American Technology has 17 HSS patents and 24 more pending.
Motorola, after all, has been in the wireless business for many years and has a lot of patents, lots of cross licenses, and more patents in the pipeline.
In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.
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There will be more transactions and fluidity in the marketplace with increasing attention to how patents impact risk and revenue, and more insightful intelligence will be required for key decisions.
Having nothing but brains and patents may be an infinitely more valuable model than owning oil fields and pipelines.
The assault likely is aimed at forcing Qualcomm to cross-license more patents and reduce the royalties that provide a third of revenue and two-thirds of profit.
He also praised the FTC's settlement with Google limiting the way it enforces patents and said it was "more or less" the kind of solution he was seeking in similar cases.
Bloomberg adds that a group of technology companies including mobile-phone makers and potentially RIM, may also bid on the patents to stop Google from gaining more influence and royalties for the wireless industry.
Hedge funds and institutional investors have poured money into patents in recent years, making life more complicated and at times expensive for big technology companies.
No country has more successful companies, or grants more patents to inventors and entrepreneurs.
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For example, Chinese companies are innovating more and filing patents in the process.
Gene patents are potentially even more lucrative and the challenge here is the patent protection that prevents other companies from advancing genetic research without paying a royalty or licensing fee.
Nano-composite plastics are going to be a major component of nano-enhanced food packaging, and Nanocor has more than 40 issued patents in its intellectual property portfolio, primarily regarding the creation of nanoclays and nanomer surface treatments.
S. in civil engineering from the University of Utah and a masters in design from Stanford, owns more than 50 patents on water control, lighting and air-compression devices, as well as laminar stream technology, which turns water jets into shapes that appear solid and motionless.
The technology reflects more than one million hours of research and development in speech technologies that has led to more than 600 U.S. patents and patent applications.
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The bill will make it harder and more expensive for small firms to get and enforce their patents.
But if small players like David Hart become just a little more wary about launching new products, and if the giants end up spending more on patents lawyers than engineers, then the future could look very different.
Boeing offered to license any patents obtained from defence contracts and to provide more information about its defence work.
Two more patents expire in 2015 and 2017, but analysts expected those would not have kept a Ranbaxy copy of Lipitor off the market.
"I felt like I won the lottery when I got accepted, " says Mr. Chakra, who manages a large group of software developers and has more than 55 patents.
But this free ride will end by 2006, when India and other more advanced developing countries must abide by TRIPS and enforce drug patents.
Top performing companies are more creative with their business models and more proactive about asserting their patents.
The big guys, like Dow and Exxon Mobil, filed more patents for alternatives to phthalates, for example, than anyone.
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Hillcrest has more than 50 issued patents, with more than 200 applications pending, for its ground breaking technology, and has received numerous accolades for its products.
He put the odds of a Pfizer win at 65% for the more critical of the two patents, and 50% on the second.
The smaller the firm, the more they rely on patents -especially startups and individual inventors.
InterDigital, which is based in Philadelphia, owns more than 19, 500 mobile communications patents and patent applications.
The Motorola unit was bought for its Android-operating mobile devices and access to more than 17, 000 patents.
About one-third of the company is employed in research and development and the company has been granted 12 patents, with more than 40 pending.
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