Sentence examples for a patented device from inspiring English sources

Can a patent holder require purchasers beyond the initial purchaser of a patented device to pay royalties?

Further, Quanta argues that restrictions on use of a patented device should be resolved by contract law, not patent law.

These companies argue that a decision for LGE could allow many "new, and very substantial, abusive patent infringement claims" against anyone who sells or uses a patented device.

She took prescription medication and tried a patented device designed to stop hiccups.

For example, under the exhaustion doctrine, the authorized sale of a patented device ends (or exhausts) the patentee's rights to control use of the purchased patented device.

"They inject water into it the day before," he told me, "there's this Austrian guy who goes round the circuit with a patented device that creates an ice effect just below the snow so that they can race faster.

The company is an automotive after-market manufacturer of a revolutionary patented device that turns ordinary pickup trucks into full-on dump trucks.

A single patented device for controlling multiple home electronics, such as TVs, VCRs and stereos, it sold poorly, and the company collapsed a year later.

Under the doctrine of equivalents, a device that is not an exact copy can still be found to infringe a patent if it varies from the patented device only in insubstantial details and is therefore equivalent to it.

So if your patented device uses an iron rod and a competitor develops the same device with a steel rod, you may not be protected under the ruling.

Mr. Vasile, a former researcher in the aerospace defense industry with nearly 30 patents to his name, has spent 20 years trying to sell the patented device born of that accident -- a coiled heat recovery apparatus that recycles captured thermal energy back into the hot-water tank.