Sentence examples for defensive patent from inspiring English sources

This conference examined best practices for avoiding infringement, defending infringement litigation and developing a defensive patent portfolio in China.

Patent infringement insurance funds defensive efforts against allegations of patent infringement; it is also known as defensive patent insurance.

The availability and uptake of an "open" or defensive patent option, for example, would, over time, decrease the incentives for wasteful patenting — replacing mutual deterrence with mutual disarmament.

Recent Clinic projects include work on individual privacy rights, copyright and free expression, artists' rights, free and open source licensing, government surveillance, the "smart" electricity grid, biometrics, and defensive patent licensing.

Similarly, law school faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, have proposed a "Defensive Patent License" in which companies would contribute patents to a common pool that shielded participants from litigious aggressors.

For another, the need to employ phalanxes of lawyers and build defensive patent portfolios (shenanigans familiar to anyone who follows the smartphone industry) diverts money that might otherwise be spent on useful research into the pockets of lawyers.

The rise of patent trolls led to a practice called "defensive patenting," in which companies amass portfolios of patents to protect themselves against lawsuits.

Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in the visual arts to the banking of trademarks, from the impact of the court of patent appeals to the management of Mickey Mouse.

Also, by flooding patent offices with applications for these defensive patents, you continuously lower the bar for obtaining patents making it easier for all players to secure protection for simplistic inventions.

Large tech companies have now spent so much money gobbling up hoards of defensive patents that they'd bitterly fight any change in the current law, even if that law is more effective at stifling innovation than incentivising it.It is sometimes difficult to get too worked up about issues like this.

Exploitative R&D, in which companies focus on making use of the best ideas they've discovered, is less costly and more of a sure thing, often resulting in a vast quantity of incremental and defensive patents built on the foundation of prior exploration.