Sentence examples for blocks of patents from inspiring English sources

The first corporations were essentially large blocks of patents.

To Mr. Kress in early 2011, any comparison to Monsanto — whose large blocks of patents he had to work around, and whose thousands of employees worldwide dwarfed the 750 he employed in Florida at peak harvest times — seemed far-fetched.

The last few years we've seen companies distracted from their roadmaps, paralyzed by lawsuits, and paying enormous sums for blocks of patents they could counter-sue with to protect themselves from lawsuits surrounding abstract ideas.

Incremental technology improvements become solid blocks of intellectual property because of patents, and it means that a lot of technology companies spend a lot of time in courts and meetings exchanging licenses and rights for the simplest things.

The absence of blocking patents in India, where most of the generic ARVs are produced, and efforts by importing governments to overcome patent barriers also contributed to a competitive, efficient global market for older ARVs.

Is it unethical to claim exclusive rights over the building blocks of life--to patent genes or the transgenic organisms that result from recombinant DNA technology?

Mr. Bush said he was also directing the agency not to block generics because of patent disputes over minor issues like the color of a pill bottle or the use of ingredients not related to the drug's effectiveness.

A tough East Coast competitor with a strong series of patents could potentially block its growth.

Under some circumstances the strategic use of patents allows companies to block the advancement of science and competing innovators.

In the digital and e-commerce realm, an ever-expanding number of patents for software and business methods provide countless potential stumbling blocks for new ideas (Bessen 2012).

Patents with offensive blocking potential are primarily filed in the a later stage of the lifecycle and are tied to certain categories of patents with a low potential to substitute prior filings economically, while filing of patents with defensive blocking potential occurs more often in the early lifecycle stage.