Sentence examples for patent actions from inspiring English sources

Not all outcomes from the patent actions were damaging to Samsung and Apple.

Shareholders will become nervous, she said, and morale will drop if the companies are repeatedly attacked over pricing and patent actions in the same way Shell was attacked for environmental policies in the Niger Delta and Nestlé was attacked for promoting infant formula to poor women.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday it plans to add Google Inc as a defendant in Germany in one of its patent actions against Google's phone maker, Motorola Mobility, marking the first time the two tech giants have come into direct legal conflict over Google's Android mobile software.

Both parties agree not to bring any patent action against the other for the next three years.

Companies are also trying to increase revenue from the drugs they do have by raising prices, advertising heavily to consumers and scrambling to extend their patents, actions that have embroiled the companies in controversy.

Likewise, Fitbit has filed patent-infringement actions against Jawbone.

The two companies announced today that VISX will dismiss its patent infringement action.

Sounds pretty dry, I know, but if your phone lets you directly a call a phone number by touching it in an email, you've seen the patent in action.

Aside from finally effectively enabling "guest mode" on a device, this patent in action would allow Apple to build a lockscreen launcher that can be operated not only via gestures, but also by voice and by keyboard, mouse or stylus events (all of which are covered by the patent).

The patent office's action, patent specialists say, shows that the office, and not only courts around the world, will be an important front in the smartphone patent wars.

The patent office's action this week was made public by Samsung in a filing on Wednesday in Federal District Court in San Jose.