Sentence examples for high-tech patents from inspiring English sources

The high-tech patents wars are fed by the value of patents as weapons for extracting rich sums from companies and competitors.

And Italy is becoming less innovative: a recent survey listed Italy as holding just 1.8% of the world's high-tech patents, against France's 7.3% and Germany's 15%.A string of reforms has been promised, postponed or apparently forgotten.

One might first consider classes of patents where patent activity is most intensive, such as high-tech patents.

Meanwhile, pendency now sometimes stretches beyond three years; it averages 32 months for most high-tech patents.

Last year, PAEs scooped up more than 6,000 high-tech patents, most of which involved software.

Apple and Google are not the first companies to duke it out over the rights to high-tech patents, and they certainly won't be the last.

But legal experts say Google's settlement with the F.T.C. signals progress in clarifying the rules of engagement in high-tech patent battles, and thus could ease them.

"In the High-Tech Patent Wars, an Inventor's Lament" (Bits blog, Oct. 15) conflates perceived concerns about our patent system and hand-wringing about some high-profile lawsuits to conclude that innovation is threatened.

More than 10,000 companies have been sued at least once by a patent troll, and patent trolls file 84percentt of high-tech patent lawsuits a year.

This led trolls to go on a high-tech patent-buying binge, because these patents have a better chance of surviving review.

The combination of increasing PAE litigation and high-tech patent targeting means every tech company is at risk and needs to take meaningful steps to protect their business.