But even her modest patent-leather lapels cast a glow over a week whose overarching theme is the play of shade and light.
The Bilski decision leaves a lot up in the air, but it affirms that judges will draw limits, even around patentable subject matter, and it offers a modest deflating of the patent bubble.
Xerox licensed its Ethernet patents at modest terms, ensuring that it won the standards battle with competing technologies at the time, promoted by companies like I.B.M.
The patents should provide modest help to other automakers without hurting Tesla, he said.
But Musk said Tesla can't make a dent in the market by itself, and thinks the patents could be a "modest" help to other companies developing electric cars.
Moreover, many patents can be "invented around" at modest costs (Mansfield 1985; Mansfield et al. 1981).
Taking a cue from the Gillette razor/razorblade model, Keurig sells its brewing systems at modest margins but makes a killing on its patented single-cup coffee packets, called K-Cups.
Typically, where corresponding foreign patent assets exist, they are assigned a modest value, if any at all.
Our analysis suggests that the effects of the Bayh Dole act on the content of academic research and patenting at Stanford and the University of California were modest.
Imagine, if you will, if you needed to make use of a modest fraction - say 2% - of those patents to develop a new pharmaceutical product.
Drew Hirshfield's Einstein is a more modest man, but then he's still slaving away at a patent-office job (and working out the theory of relativity), while Picasso is an established artist.
