Sentence examples for patent authority from inspiring English sources

But even though the African regional patent authority said Glaxo's patents were not valid in Ghana, Cipla backed down and stopped selling Duovir.

India's patent authority gave Novartis exclusive marketing rights for its cancer drug Glivec for five years, in what was seen as the Indian government's willingness to accept global patent standards.

China's Beijing-headquartered patent authority.

Japan's Tokyo-based patent authority, South Korea's patent office, based in Daejeon Metropolitan City.

It then challenged that decision, suing both the patent authority and Zhizhen - but was thwarted on Tuesday when Beijing's Number One Intermediate People's Court ruled against it.

"It is often too easy to obtain a software patent from the European patent authorities," she said.

The commission, the European Union's executive body, found that the company gave a wrong date to European patent authorities to gain an unfair extension of Losec's patent.

After nearly three and a half years, the commission reached the preliminary conclusion that the company misinformed national drug patent authorities within the European Union about the date of registration of Losec in order to qualify for a five-year extension of its exclusivity rights, the commission said in a statement.

U.S. law already permits such a grace period, and HUGO is asking other patent authorities to adopt the U.S. approach.

RWE has secured a provisional patent for the SunRoof FS design, and has full patent applications for the FS design pending before US, European, and Japanese patent authorities.

Table 2 shows how the percentage of compound-patent pairs that were found in at least one database varies across patents from different patent authorities.