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PAGE C1 PATENT BATTLE IS BOON TO LOBBYISTS Congress is mired in a fight over the question of whether drug makers should be allowed to keep patents they obtained by misrepresentation or cheating -- but that fight has been a gift to lobbyists.
There are a number of nonprofit community-based organizations out there that help keep patents away from trolls, including my own.
Last year, Twitter announced something it called the Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA), which would keep patents in the hands of the designers and engineers that came up with the technology behind them.
But the real answer to over-patenting that Congress has yet to address is to tighten standards for inventiveness and make it harder to keep patents in perpetuity by "evergreening" patent thickets.
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Companies often try to keep patent applications private for as long as possible, to try to hide their technical intentions from rivals.
Those companies and other supporters say that the proposed changes would also help to keep patent disputes out of the court system, which inevitably adds millions of dollars to the cost of maintaining patent protection.
The generic business is, after all, becoming increasingly tough as big pharmaceutical companies aggressively fight to keep patent protection on their drugs.
ACTs drawn from catheters kept patent using heparin flush also result in prolonged measurements.
Baseline ACTs drawn from radial arterial catheters, kept patent using a heparin flush system, resulted in elevated measurements, despite withdrawing seven times the deadspace before taking a sample.
The second lumen tip, downstream by 2.5 mm, was used for blood sampling and kept patent by 0.9% saline with 5 units/mL heparin infused at 10 µL/min.
Both lines were kept patent with solutions of physiological saline.
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