Glass noticed his shoes: impossibly long and narrow patent-leather sheaths, the laces knotted into stiff and perfectly formed figure eights.
"While courts are comfortable with narrow patents, there is widespread interest among research universities in ensuring that our broader, more basic research work is likewise protected by the nation's patent laws," Thomas H. Jackson, the university's president, said in a statement.
That owes to companies swamping the office with applications for multiple narrow patents to gain a competitive edge.
We find that patent examiners rarely use applicant-submitted art in their rejections to narrow patents, relying almost exclusively on prior art they find themselves.
"I don't think people quite understand how incredibly narrow patents are; they will be for a specific extract of cannabis for a specific condition under specific circumstances".
But the long-simmering issue was largely settled this week, when the United States granted a narrower patent to the company, Ricetec of Alvin, Tex.
But other claims related to key social networking features were granted as part of the narrowed patent.
Because "language remains an imperfect fit for [describing an] invention," Kennedy wrote, the holders of narrowed patents should still be able to go to court.
In the pharmaceutical industry, narrower patents with less detailed descriptions allowed applicants to reduce the approval time by 10.8% (170 days).
These can help you narrow your patent search.
A dog with a vascular ring anomaly often has a narrow, but patent, lumen in the gullet and can often drink fluids and keep them down.
