Sentence examples for * patentee from inspiring English sources

Similar rules are commonly applied when a principal patent generates other, "dependent" patents; the main patentee may be compelled to grant licenses to those who hold dependent patents.

Judge Jerome N. Frank, of the Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote an opinion, establishing that it is immaterial whether a patentee correctly understands how his device operates.

Many countries refuse to allow a patentee to "sit" on his invention in this fashion and instead compel him to "work" the patented technology, either by commercializing it or by licensing it to someone who will.

Its heroine, Daphne, is an aspiring writer and the personal assistant of Dr. Bloom, who declares himself, in a heroic baritone passage, "the leading manufacturer, distributor and patentee of penis pumps".

If any of these entitlements is abridged, a court can, at the request of the patentee, compel the infringer to pay damages and to refrain from infringement in the future.

MR. OLSON: Well, it may provide additional incentives for the patentee to exploit and promote and disseminate that particular work.... MR. OLSON: If you are an 80-year-old writer, that may make a considerable difference in terms of what you decide to do.

The grant was similar to that of the Virginia Company in 1609, the patentees being joint proprietors with rights of ownership and government.

In 1584 to still the discontent, some of the rich patentees surrendered a number of copies to the company for the benefit of its poorer members.

By a shrewd and legally questionable move, however, the patentees decided to transfer the management and the charter itself to Massachusetts.

The decrease in the quality of patents, as well as the increase in quantity and breadth, has raised uncertainty about the boundaries of the rights owned by patentees.

In March, a federal judge in San Francisco wrote that the appeals court's decision signaled that "the closing bell may be ringing for business method patents, and their patentees may find they have become bagholders".