It finds that adding employees on the H-1B visa, which is among the commonest and arguably most contentious vehicles for admitting highly skilled guest workers to the United States, has "insignificant effect on patenting, … substantially crowd[s] out employment of other workers, [and] leads to lower average employee wages while raising firm profits".
Governments can negotiate the price of a medicine with the patent-owner, but have no guarantee that such negotiations will result in reasonable prices, especially if their home market is relatively insignificant to the patent-holding firm.
As depicted in Tables 5 and 6, the results obtained from the biotechnology field were statistically insignificant; however, attitudes toward patents (evaluating effects of patents) and experiencing difficulties with prior patents were positively correlated in the biomedical sector (β = 0.511, p < 0.10).
Fully accounting for the endogeneity of investment, we find that the effect of VC on patenting is insignificant or negative, in contrast to the results generated by simpler models with independent equations.
Setting up a small business that practices an invention is an insignificant expense compared to the costs of patent enforcement.
For domestic patent applications, institutional stability has either a weakly negative or insignificant effect, a result we attribute to generally escalating local patenting standards over time.
Patents.com could then serve as a sort of patents brokerage, providing a communications conduit between patent owners and patent searchers who may wish to license them, which is not insignificant.
Accordingly, it is legally insignificant that the short nucleotide sequences statistically can be found in much of the human genome, unless many patent claims solely cover these short nucleotide sequences.
Regardless of the standard, requiring patents to be asserted only by practicing entities (or entities practicing the invention) would be an insignificant burden for any well-funded asserting entity.
He contends that the company's growth has been stymied by unfair competition from SMC, because, he says, SMC misled the United States Patent and Trademark Office when it secured a patent for a design that differed from Festo's in insignificant ways.
