The idea is to set up a process so patent owners can proactively clean up issued patents in advance of potential litigation, eliminating uncertainty and strengthening the patents for business planning, licensing, or acquisition deals.
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This applied both to patent application filing decisions and to those made during negotiations with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as part of the process of obtaining a patent.
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And any efforts for the USPTO to improve the timeliness of the patent process must take a back seat to budgetary pressures.
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Right now, we can give our entrepreneurs the chance to let their job-creating ideas move to market faster by streamlining our patent process.
The law, passed after six years by a bipartisan admixture of lawmakers, was billed as a measure to streamline the patent process and reduce costly legal fights.
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Today you passed reform that will speed up the outdated patent process, so that entrepreneurs can turn a new idea into a new business as quickly as possible.
Intense lobbying has brought to the cusp of enactment a bill that is very much to the liking of those who seek to dispense with the traditional American patent process.
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Now, however, as these companies face a clear need to file more and file faster, they are additionally hard-pressed because they commonly rely on key business and engineering personnel to manage the patent process.
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It was an anticlimactic end to a case whose decision was so long delayed that some speculated the justices were deadlocked over how far to rein in what some see as an out-of-control patent process.
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It makes sense that the value of companies is based upon the right to exclude all others for 15 years or more (U.S. patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date, but the examination process in the Patent Office will eat up a significant amount of time).
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Currently, I am in the process of looking for investors to help fund the patent and FDA approval process.
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Wells actually likens the process of getting a patent to that of owning a used car.
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The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.
Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks or a fresh burger at the nearest fast food restaurant.
What did happen is that for more than two decades, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which sits below the Supreme Court in the patent appeals process) unilaterally expanded the range of stuff that could be patented.
Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) or a fresh burger at the nearest fast food restaurant.
InterTrust was already in the process of suing Microsoft for patent infringement, in a closely watched case that could have far-reaching implications.
An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
The patent on the fluoxetine hydrochloride, the compound formerly known only as Prozac, runs out next year, and the patent on the process used to make it runs out in 2003.
Its wood chips are first fed into a 400-degree steam cooker, then subjected to a patent-pending mechanical process that KL's chief scientist David Litzen calls axial shear.
The federal government filed a brief in favor of neither side, saying that the Prometheus patent covered an eligible process, but would likely fail because it consisted of obvious and well-known steps.
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Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.
He also noted in a patent filing that the process allowed the blue-screen procedure to cope with glassware, cigarette smoke, blowing hair and motion blur which had all caused problems for earlier efforts.
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In filing these proposed procedures in advance of the June 30 deadline in our lending agreement, we are moving ahead as quickly as possible with the process of monetizing our digital imaging patent portfolio.
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These days, budding inventors who struggle through the lengthy, legalistic procedure of filing a patent application usually find the process anything but inspiring.
Yep, if you use a process or technique that is covered by some patent that has already been awarded then the patent holder could come after you for infringement.
Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.
Strategically focused patent portfolio development is a key process in protecting intellectual property and one that may enable a smaller player to have relatively large leverage in an industry, because it can obtain an asset of value to a competitor.
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