Sentence examples for challenged patents from inspiring English sources

In Europe, at least, an appeals process can overturn challenged patents as in the Edinburgh case.

But in the United States challenged patents simply lead to drawn-out litigation without a clear resolution.

D'Arcy challenged patents over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes held by U.S. firm Myriad Genetics and its Melbourne-based licensee Genetic Technologies.

Breaking with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the MedImmune majority clearly establishes a patent licensee's legal right to challenge the validity and enforceability of a patent without actually breaching or terminating the underlying licensing agreement for the challenged patent.

And in the last Supreme Court case on the right of parties to challenge patents, the Supreme Court relied on those other cases challenging criminal statutes to find that the patent challenge could proceed even though the potential infringers were not even likely to be sued by the patent holder.

Others wanted it to be made easier to challenge patents.

So the listing creates a barrier to rivals, which often wind up challenging patents in court.

So says Dan Ravicher, founder of the New York City-based Public Patent Foundation, who challenges patents by asking the patent office to narrow claims.

It is apparent that defense attorneys have fully embraced Alice by the influx of pre-trial motions challenging patents claim.

[C5.] Ranbaxy to Continue Challenging Patented Drugs The Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories said it would not back down from its strategy of challenging patents and making generical drugs, despite its loss to Pfizer in a patent challenge to Lipitor, the cholesterol drug.

Also helping to propel the copycat drug trend is the success of generic manufacturers in challenging patents held by brand-name companies.