However, if the patent provides a broad scope of coverage, acquiring it can provide a significant advantage to the entrepreneur by providing a barrier to entry for competitors and by making the idea/business more appealing to potential investors.
Under the so-called parity plan, insurers would be required to offer a broader scope of coverage for mental health conditions with costs more in line with benefits for other medical care.
It is a strategic tool for policy implementation and the scope of coverage – from a narrow focus on productive agricultural activities to a broader scope including natural resources management, rural development and value addition, as well as food security and nutrition and social and health aspects – depends upon the country's policy, institutional and geopolitical environment.
Thus the scope of coverage includes a broad range of topics of pure and applied organometallic chemistry, where new breakthroughs are being achieved that are of significance to a larger scientific audience.
I know this is a little out of our traditional scope of coverage, but let's pass the word that McDonald's Shrek promo glass contain toxic metal cadmium and are being recalled.
Nawrath said air force commanders had been scrambling to increase their scope of coverage ahead of a potential attack.
The shortcomings of the system and its search interface have been well documented in the literature and include lack of reliable advanced search functions (e.g. no MeSH term subheading search function), lack of controlled vocabulary, lack of a "similar pages" feature, and issues regarding scope of coverage and currency [ 4, 5, 25].
According to several Republicans close to the discussions, the three biggest issues yet to be reconciled are the scope of coverage for people with a preexisting injury or illness, health-care tax credits and Medicaid.
As premiums have risen, many employers have stopped providing coverage; particularly those firms with three to nine employees [ 18], substantially limited or reduced the scope of benefits provided, and/or asked employees to pay a higher share of the overall premium, thus effectively shrinking the scope of coverage.
Despite these and other risks, we must embrace the era of radical healthcare innovation and pay attention to enhancing outcomes, broadening the base and scope of coverage while reducing the embarrassment of riches garnered from a one-sided economic system - where the bounty goes to insurers and providers, while patients are squeezed between rising rates (and deductibles) and dwindling protection.
