Patent trolls buy or create patent portfolios whose only purpose is to extort fees from the companies that actually make the things that the patents supposedly cover.
Cima's process that allows medicines to dissolve quickly in the mouth so patients do not have to swallow pills with water would allow drug makers to create patent-protected versions of medicines facing generic competition.
The CAFC judges, at least those originally appointed to the court, included those who had been involved with the legislative process creating the court, and they felt their mandate was to create patent law based on their own concepts of proper patent policy, which of course was shaped by the corporate and legal lobbyists who had most assuredly schmoozed them and their Congressional bosses.
Tseng et al. [ 34] described and evaluated several text mining techniques to create patent maps and improve patent analysis tasks such as classification and knowledge sharing.
In 2007 Indonesia, a potential epicentre of any future pandemic, stopped sharing viral samples with the WHO because they were being used by laboratories to create patented drugs the country could not afford to purchase.
In an often testy on-stage discussion with the technology journalist Walt Mossberg at the D: All Things Digital conference here, Mr. Myhrvold vigorously defended his business, which consists in part of buying or creating patents and occasionally suing companies that won't license them.
But he foresees it being dominated by fund-management firms, such as his own Intellectual Ventures, collectively constituting a new alternative asset class that he calls "invention capital .The idea of raising money to invest explicitly in creating patents is not new, Mr Myhrvold notes: that is what Thomas Edison did.
Boeing could just be creating patents as a way to own the idea should increasing noise restrictions be applied at airports.
For those reasons, they are usually more concerned about disseminating knowledge and publishing academic papers than creating patents that limit how this knowledge can be used.
For instance, Ernst & Young's Corporate Finance department creates patent maps for various Canadian corporations.
"Nokia and Microsoft are colluding to raise the costs of mobile devices for consumers, creating patent trolls that sidestep promises both companies have made.
