This week, a U.S. intelligence report blamed Russia and China for hacking into private computer networks, likely seeking patent and technology information.
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For all outward appearances, both Apple and IBM made every effort to convey that both ingredients were present in their blossoming SA. Only one problem: At the time, both Apple and IBM had a number of lawsuits against each other for patent and technology infringement.
Some of the patents were rejected because there was not enough of an inventive step between the prior technology and Apple's patent.
For years, Nokia has only released devices that work on another more widespread wireless technology called GSM, in part due to a patent and royalty dispute with the technology firm Qualcomm.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has just made it more difficult to obtain a patent, providing a boon to many technology firms and other companies that are often accused of patent infringement.
Ericsson and Micromax are the latest companies to fight it out in the courts as patent disputes between technology companies and smartphone makers trigger a slew of litigation globally.
Taylor says the concept and patent-pending technology could spawn other identity group sites, including for women, Hispanics and the gay community.
The initial public offering of RPX Corp, a San Francisco company that acquires patents to protect technology giants like Google and Cisco from patent lawsuits, marks the latest escalation in the patent wars.
The settlement of the long-running and complex patent battle between the two technology giants is a rare piece of good news for the Finnish company - and its shares hauled themselves off the canvas this morning as a result.
The Department of Energy has applied for a patent on the technology, and Halstead's company has the right to an exclusive license.
The ruling states that Samsung has violated four Apple patents related to iPhone design and touch screen technology, including a patent co-invented by Steve Jobs.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have jointly devised a patent-pending method to build organic solar cells using plant-derived substrates.
The power-saving technology described in this patent is trivial and contributes only a negligible reduction in power-consumption, so HTC has removed any allegedly corresponding functionality from all of its current German handsets as a precaution against any attempt by Nokia to extend the scope of the judgment unfairly.
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They spend brief periods of time innovating, and then milk a technology, brand, patent, or some combination therein for as long as they can get away with it (or in Moto's case, way longer).
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Companies pay royalties to the patent holder and can use the technology to grow their business.
Among other things, the TPP establishes strong, universal patent protections for innovative industries like technology and pharmaceuticals.
McAfee denies the charge, saying the patent relies on previously known technology, and is gearing up for a long and costly fight.
He received a patent for the technology in 2006, and soon asked Wright, 38, to help him launch a company to bring his design to market.
China is notorious for copying old technology, making minor changes, and calling it a new patent.
Convince the court that Apple's claim to the inventions are invalid, and that the technology was developed prior to the disputed patent's filing.
The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the office is severely underfunded and dysfunctional, has too few examiners, has inferior outdated technology and is helplessly backlogged with over 800, 000 unprocessed patent applications.
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Like those two companies, Nuance has a strong patent position approximately 2, 800 patents and 1, 100 patent applications to protect its technology.
For while Fortuny always thought of himself as a painter, his fascination with technology led him to patent new techniques for stage lighting, print engraving and photo development.
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Eventually Monsanto started to pull away from its rivals as it became the first seed developer to patent the gene traits of seeds and to license its technology broadly.
As with the patent reform law now being considered, the decision was welcomed by technology companies who said they were too frequently targeted for patent infringement, and denounced by biotech firms who argued that investors would be discouraged from funding new products.
And they found that the firms that had not outsourced their patent filing activities were much better at identifying potential technology competitors (and their weaknesses) early on.
The dual touch-sensitive jog wheels on the KONTROL S4 hardware offer extremely precise and responsive deck control due to a new patent-pending electromagnetic technology, complemented through Native Instruments' high-resolution NHL protocol that provides superior performance over conventional MIDI.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that 20 patents relating to scroll technology "lack novelty".
Speaking more as a fan of technology than an employee of Samsung, he called the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung "a loss" for innovation.
Dr Ben Ngubane, The minister for arts, culture and technology in the South African government, said that a model for the new patent law was still under development.
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