Sentence examples for grant a patent from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the examiners are taking more than two years on average to grant a patent.

Britain last week became the first country in the world to grant a patent covering cloned early-stage human embryos.

India's government, which adopted tighter patent laws after it joined the WTO, refused to grant a patent for Glivec in 2006, arguing that its main ingredient was known.

Using novel micro-level data, we provide the first empirical evidence that examiner decisions are systematically biased as workload increases, with examiners being more likely to grant a patent than to reject it.

These results imply that an examiner who lacks sufficient time for a prior art search tends to grant a patent and, consequently, a large workload decreases the quality of examinations by resulting in unqualified patents.

Novartis is awaiting a ruling in a separate case before the intellectual property rights appellate board in Delhi, appealing the earlier decision not to grant a patent for the modified form of Gleevec.

Documents were flagged as "granted" if at least one document in their patent family was a document granting a patent.

In the early 1930s Hollingshead was granted a patent.

The buffer has been granted a patent by the Polish Patent Office.

In 1837 he was granted a patent on an electromagnetic telegraph.

Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, was granted a patent for a "steam machine" in 1884.