Within three months following the filing of a request for reexamination under the provisions of section 302, the Director will determine whether a substantial new question of patentability affecting any claim of the patent concerned is raised by the request, with or without consideration of other patents or printed publications.
Genovations' test results, for example, do not mention the Alzheimer's connection when reporting the presence of the ApoE gene -- mainly because of patent concerns on the use of this gene for all Alzheimer's applications.
Like the Kinect, the console will use motion detection technology and T3 recently revealed that Microsoft had filed a patent concerning projecting augmented reality 3D images on walls, which would require you to wear Wi-Fi-enabled 3D glasses.
The patent concerned stents, surgical devices used to hold formerly clogged blood vessels open after heart surgery, and the jury said it based the damages on royalties and profits forgone by Cordis because Boston Scientific sold a competing stent.
Red Bend claims Google has known about its patent concerns since early September.
"Although publication of research results is encouraged," James says, due to patent concerns "there can be heavy policing of what can be published when," says James.
As many of the past decade's blockbuster drugs, including Pfizer's $12 billion Lipitor, continue to come off patent, concerns are growing as to whether and how the biopharma industry will replace revenues lost to generics (Kirchhoff and Schiereck, 2011).
To build a sustainable solution for the growing web/tech community's patent concerns, Beth Noveck and the NY Law School's Do-Tank created the Peer-to-Patent Project as an answer.
Flowtab filed a patent concerning the "ability for merchant sellers and servers in hospitality establishments to use point-of-sale applications to send one-click/one-touch order-status notifications to mobile devices of their customers".
Patent attacks are, sadly, a constant threat in the software business and some groups like the Open Invention Network, which counts Google, Red Hat, Sony and IBM among its backers, are trying to make it a bit easier to ensure that the development of popular open-source products isn't held back by patent concerns.
Professor Giacomo Frati holds a patent concerning stem cells in cardiovascular medicine (WO2005012510) and a patent concerning platelet lysate in regenerative medicine (WO/2013/042095).
