With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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London, by contrast, has some of the least-patent friendly courts in the world, where alleged patent infringers won 86% of the time between 2006 and 2009.
The news is a setback for Pfizer as it aims to build a large arsenal of anti-cancer medicines to help it grow earnings before big sellers like Lipitor, the top-selling medicine in the world, lose patent protection in coming years.
The news is a setback for Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) as it aims to build a large arsenal of anti-cancer medicines to help it grow earnings before big sellers like Lipitor, the top-selling medicine in the world, lose patent protection in coming years.
It has been quite a busy week in the patent litigation world.
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What happens in America matters globally, since it is the world's leading patent office, approving about 170, 000 patents each year, half of which are granted to foreign applicants.
As technology proceeds in a patent-obsessed world, the fruits of innovation flow to the owners of the capital and invention, forming a whole new rentier class.
Microsoft has secured a patent deal with the world's biggest consumer electronics manufacturer to receive fees for devices powered by Google's Android and Chrome operating systems.
The decision opens the door for Indian companies to continue to make generics of a large number of drugs that are under patent in the developed world.
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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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Now consider our actual world: yes, there are still patent fights.
But this is just one battle in a patent war that rages across the world.
In a clear sign of their growing rivalry, Apple and HTC have been suing each other for patent infringement in courts around the world.
This calls for a more flexible approach to patent rights in different parts of the world.
Since 2011, Apple and Samsung have been slugging it out across the world's courts in a series of distracting patent battles.
But if Tim Cook's overarching strategy is to stand down from the promised Android annihilation he inherited, save us all from the grinding weariness of arcane patent disputes and dishearten lawyers around the world, and if he executes a new strategic exchange of legal fees for licensing revenue, he will have truly taken the mantle of innovation -- boardroom innovation, at least -- and changed Apple forever.
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The company ranked second in patent applications last year, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Slide to unlock, in particular, has become emblematic of the patent wars currently keeping lawyers busy across the world.
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This is clearly a contentious issue in the tech world, and one that has many people pleading for patent reform.
In an effort to protect both patients and patent holders and to harmonize patent protection for various types of goods, World Trade Organization members established minimum standards for protecting and enforcing intellectual property.
Apple and Samsung have fought a number of patent cases against each other in courts across the world.
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Reform would bring the U.S. patent system in line with the rest of the world by granting patents on a "first-to-file" rather than a "first-to-invent" basis.
The goal: to create a drug that would prevent heart attacks and become a massive seller, potentially replacing Lipitor, the world's best-selling medicine, when it loses patent protection as early as 2010.
With every day bringing news of more suits and counter-suits in courts around the world, there is no sign of peace breaking out in the patent wars.
Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.
The rankings reflect the number of U.S. utility-patents, which are the most common type of patents awarded for protecting intellectual property and technological innovation, received by companies around the world in 2010 based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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The jury has begun deliberating in the US patent trial between the two biggest smartphone-makers in the world, Samsung and Apple.
Mr Serra organised a lobbying effort at the World Trade Organisation, where America eventually dropped a case against Brazil for patent infringement.
So while the rest of the world of tech is dealing with the fallout, and possible implications of patent law, over here in the wild party that is Alt, we're fist pumping at all the awesome weekly sci-tech fodder.
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Pfizer needs to convince investors it can withstand the loss of the U.S. patent of cholesterol-fighter Lipitor, the bestselling drug in the world, in as little as two years.
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