In America, as the patent on a drug's active ingredient expires, its manufacturer will typically file (allegedly) frivolous patent applications based on its delivery method or capsule.
For instance, Yoshitsugu Kitamura, head of Omron's intellectual-property department, says that unless the firm develops new patents to replace those that are due to expire, its medium-term outlook will be grim.
When a company goes public and enough of its venture investors distribute shares right after the company's lock-up period expires, its share price tend to drop.
About three weeks later, its $250 million line of credit expired, and its lead bank, the FleetBoston Financial Corporation, did not renew it.
The amount of heat lost from the airway depends on basic physical principles and therefore on the mass of expired gas, its specific heat and the change in its temperature.
The Barclays note predicted Lilly, which is based in Indianapolis, would invest heavily in promotion because it was relying on Cymbalta for sales growth from next year, when its patent expires on its best-selling drug, Zyprexa, to 2013, when its patent expires on Cymbalta.
This act eventually expired of its own inanity.
It's unclear whether the experiment was chewed up by World War I or had expired on its own before 1914.
When the lease expired for its previous office, the team could have looked for a slightly bigger space.
We propose a scheme to drop the packet whose T i is expired at its departure to further improve the utilization of bandwidth and the capability to provision QoS.
