Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in renewable energy patents filed by Chinese inventors.
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Of the 1, 300 patents filed last year by GM, more than half of them were for advanced environmental technologies.
The study finds that public companies, newly fortified with additional capital, continue to innovate, as measured by the number of patents filed.
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In 2008, the number of Chinese clean energy patents filed globally was more than those filed by U.S. and Japanese inventors combined.
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Rockwell, among many other things, tracks the number of patents filed.
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If you look at hard data, like the number of patents filed in the US patent office, you will find over the last 20 years an exponential curve.
Analyzing the inventor location of patents filed in the three major patent exchanges in the world, the United States, European Union, and Japan, we found that the United States is the global leader in clean energy patents filed since 1990.
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Thus far, it has 50 issued patents and at least 250 filed patents, many of them gene and viral targets that may be the focus of RNAi drugs developed by Sirna itself or other companies in the future.
Still, as long as vague patents are filed and granted, people will probably litigate them.
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It might be something completely off the wall like the holograms patents they filed last year.
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Astra notes that its formulation patents were filed in 1987, two years before the drug came on the market.
It also says that extra patents it filed after the original patent on Prilosec should extend its ownership of the drug by several years.
The question is what is the value of these patents currently being filed by Chinese inventors in China?
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Dave Mooring, CEO of Wimm Labs, filed patents for Wimm Labs in 2008.
The company holds more than 5, 500 issued, allowed or filed patents worldwide, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
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Employees have poured 12, 000 ideas into the TIP, 50 patents have been filed on the back of them and 25 projects funded.
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Ken Lang, after acquiring patents he himself filed from previous employer and now defunct search engine LYCOS, is now CTO at Vringo.
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Patents have been filed, the senior team assembled, and letters of intent collected from Aera Energy (heavy oil), PERC Water (municipal wastewater), Filterboxx (oil sands in Calgary), and EPRI.
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In fall 2007, Nokia also filed three patents related to determining location via Wi-Fi signal strength.
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The big guys, like Dow and Exxon Mobil, filed more patents for alternatives to phthalates, for example, than anyone.
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So far, QMP has filed 11 international patents for the technology, three of which have almost been finalised.
The company has more than 4, 500 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
The company has more than 5, 000 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing.
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It has filed over 550 patents on behalf of the innovators, according to Dr Vipin Kumar, chief innovation officer at the foundation.
Sina Fateh, an ophthalmologist and entrepreneur who has filed at least thirty patents related to heads-up displays, says there is reason to be concerned.
However, the vast majority of those Chinese patents (98%) were filed by Chinese inventors at the Chinese patent authority and only the Chinese patent authority.
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Since 2010, Qualcomm has filed at least eight patents related to indoor positioning, including work touching on Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation and motion tracking via sensors.
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But AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people) has filed about a dozen patents on other aspects of the drug, and it says these should give it an exclusive right to sell Prilosec until at least 2007.
Based on an announcement by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ZTE filed for the most PCT patents of any company worldwide in 2011 with 2, 826 filings.
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Tech and financial service companies are also pulling for a second "window" to allow them to dispute patents once a patent infringement suit is filed, something that would've probably aided RIM in their recent fight.
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