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Moreover, for high-revenue products, it may be desirable to patent incremental inventions even when the incremental inventions are not embodied in a product, especially if the incremental invention is an alternative that may be a truly effective competitor.
Pharmaceutical companies often patent incremental inventions to extend the length of patent coverage for a drug product.
In such circumstances, patenting of incremental inventions can help to extend the life of the patent coverage for the product.
Where this capacity is weaker, a system that provides incentives to conduct minor, incremental inventions is more conducive to growth.
Where an invention has potential long-term marketability, patenting incremental inventions embodied in products is advisable, even when an existing patent already protects the invention.
Such incremental inventions typically include novel formulations, new methods of administration, specialized drug delivery devices, improved dosage regimens, and dosage forms combining more than one active ingredient.
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The book's rapturous descriptions of multiblade razors, car stereos, and digital cameras which strike some readers as blindly consumerist suggest Perowne's appreciation of the human ingenuity behind even incremental invention.
The book's rapturous descriptions of multiblade razors, car stereos, and digital cameras — which strike some readers as blindly consumerist — suggest Perowne's appreciation of the human ingenuity behind even incremental invention.
On the other hand, if the incremental invention (i) will not be embodied in a commercial product (e.g., the mutated gene results in a product that is not as good as the current lead product) and (ii) is already embodied in the broad claims of your patent portfolio, then publication to prevent patenting by a competitor may be warranted.
Is incremental design supported?
Critics of these new Internet patents, which by definition have a software component, contend that software creation is far more incremental than other kinds of invention.
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