Anderson expects to offer access to Mir equipment to corporations and governments and to sell intellectual rights on Mir's considerable patents so that, as Anderson puts it optimistically, "NASA won't be able to build so much as an air lock without paying MirCorp something first".
The results show that, else being equal, only collaboration with industry would significantly increase the probability of patenting for female academic scientists, but this helps explain considerable difference in patenting between female and male academics.
But, before this happens, companies often spend considerable sums buying up patent portfolios that they can use as bargaining chips during negotiations.
The U.S. government has considerable leeway to reject patent applications it finds obvious, the Supreme Court said today in a unanimous opinion on a case pitting manufacturers of brake pedals against each other.
Hurst's patents yielded considerable royalties, and he could afford to work pro bono on an arson case for months, even years.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the court, said "there would be considerable danger" in granting patents on natural phenomena because that approach would "inhibit future innovation" and "would be at odds with the very point of patents, which exist to promote creation".
The company now holds more than 40,000 active patents, which generate considerable income from royalties.
This resulted in a considerable amount of publications and patents.
Among the names that are obviously missing here are the likes of Qualcomm, Nokia, LG, Samsung and Motorola, all of which own a considerable number of LTE-related patents.
In the developed world, controversies have arisen over patents, and the considerable profits derived from research done on tissues, while those contributing the tissue were unaware of such profits and barred from sharing benefits [ 7].
