Sentence examples for marginal patent from inspiring English sources
James Fornari, head of the intellectual property department at Gersten Savage, a Manhattan law firm, says the Supreme Court ruling "will make it easier for examiners to reject applications, using a more rigorous standard on obviousness," while the Federal Circuit appellate opinion will make it more difficult for marginal patent owners to file infringement suits.
The type of government influences both US and domestic patent applications rates, with a veto-players institutional coding better predicting marginal patenting rates than regime type.
Congress can only change the law prospectively, or it will face claims from owners of marginal patents that their property rights are being taken away.
The (marginal) impact on patent applications of increases in feed-tariffs has also become more profound as the wind power technology has matured.
Cheap patents with a high presumption of validity naturally build demand for more marginal or questionable patents.
The problem is the hundreds of thousands of marginal and questionable patents regularly released into commerce.
Thus, the value of repurposing from an industry perspective for currently marketed, branded, or generic drugs will often be marginal due to limited patent life.
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences.
IN 1572 the Privy Council of Elizabeth I, the queen of England, refused to grant patent protection to new knives with bone handles because the improvement was marginal.
