Sentence examples for breadth of patent from inspiring English sources

"The devices we used 10 years ago to make voice calls have become hand-held computers incorporating a vast array of software and hardware, which increases the breadth of patent exposure," said RPX's chief executive, John Amster.

"This may be another step in reinforcing the breadth of the patent law," Mr. Craft said.

Relations between the two companies were rocky in the first year because of disagreements over the breadth of Intuitive's patents.

The second is to explore the effects of patent length and breadth on market outcomes.

Maybe not, but Nokia, Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo have already challenged the validity and breadth of Qualcomm's CDMA patents.

"This agreement with GoPro shows the incredible breadth of technology sharing enabled through patent transactions," said Nick Psyhogeos, president of Microsoft Technology Licensing, in today's extremely brief announcement.

This paper develops a Schumpeterian growth model with overlapping intellectual property rights to analyze the effects of patent protection that features two policy instruments: patent breadth and the profit-division rule between sequential innovators.

Given the size and breadth of contributing organizations (including many substance suppliers, patent databases, natural product collections, literature databases, etc)., PubChem might be considered to represent a rather large fraction of all known (small molecule, organic) chemistry.

Instead, the number of patent cases soared.

"This is anti-abuse of patent rights.

Patent privateering changes the dimensions and threat of patent litigation.