Sentence examples for active patent from inspiring English sources

Some of the other tasks and activities that come up include dealing with active patent applications, as well as making decisions regarding payment of patent renewal/maintenance fees.

Knowingly infringing an active patent can lead to disastrous consequences for your business.

Unlike IFI's annual Top U.S. Patent Recipients, this broader ranking measures the size of a patent owner's global portfolio based on the number of active patent families.

Samsung Electronics has 61,608 active patent families, with Canon in second position with 34,905 and IBM rounding out the top list with 34,376.

To get an idea of the size of the problem facing the likes of Apple and Samsung, consider this: O'Connor believes  - based on estimates from patent firm RPX - that there are about 250,000 active patents in the United States that may have some relevance to the activities of mobile device manufacturers out of a total of about 1.5 million active patents.

Toyota was the most active patent-filer in this area.

The company now holds more than 40,000 active patents, which generate considerable income from royalties.

Many of UC's 4,118 active patents have led to the creation of today's leading industries.

In 2010, she became president and COO of the patent licensing company Intellectual Ventures, which has a portfolio of 40,000 active patents and a global network of 4,000 inventors.

IBM has been the most active patenting organization in the U.S. for the past 24 years: In 2016, IBMers were granted more than 22 patents per day and IBM became the first firm to surpass 8,000 patents awarded in a single year.

(Mr. Knabusch died in 1988. Mr. Shoemaker, the self-taught, mechanical engineering side of the team, died last month at 90). It is now a global presence, with 438 active patents in 35 countries, including Zimbabwe, Israel, Italy and Japan.