Sentence examples for issuing patents from inspiring English sources

The process of issuing patents, however, is not going smoothly.

"It's called the patent office," he said, noting that issuing patents is the agency's job.

When the Patent Office began issuing patents again, it numbered them.

"The E.P.O. has of late taken a more restrictive approach, issuing patents to software applications themselves," Mr. Bolkestein said.

Ms. Quinn said the patent office did not comment on individual patents but had not changed its policy of not issuing patents "drawn to humans".

The United States is issuing patents at a torrential pace, establishing new records each year, and it is expanding the universe of things that can be patented.

And once issued, patents are subject to annual maintenance fees.

Rebecca is also an inventor on several issued patents.

But patent litigation is declining as a percentage of issued patents.

The patent office has now issued patents on 6,000 genes, about 1,000 of them human genes.

Vermont has one of the highest per-capita rates of issued patents in the country.