In the past 25 years, more than 4,500 firms have been spun out from non-profit research institutes, based on patents generated as a consequence of this law.Scores of medical advances and technical innovations have resulted, including MRI body scanning, the vaccine for hepatitis B, the atomic-force microscope and even the technique behind Google's search engine.
As a consequence of his patent claims, Nobel was eventually involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite.
As a consequence of the patent term harmonization introduced by TRIPS, the term of U.S. patents became contingent on how quickly the patents are granted.
This is a consequence of extensive patenting of the metallocene catalyst systems, as well as for general interest in the improvement of polyolefin catalysis.
AstraZeneca is not alone in the pharma business in facing patent expiries, the consequences of a squeeze from government healthcare spending and smaller pipelines of new products.
On the other are pundits who say these preventable deaths are the consequence of America's patent inability to regulate guns.
Some patent holders are concerned that expanding this program will have the unintended negative consequence of undermining their own patents.
This tension is, in part, a direct consequence of a universal requirement for patent protection - namely, that a patent will not issue, or will be declared invalid, if the claimed invention was previously disclosed to the public.
Its status as the sole commercial provider of BRCA testing in the United States is a consequence of its exclusive US patent rights.
In this paper, we set out a modelling and estimation framework designed to discover whether venture capital (VC) increases the patenting performance of firms or whether this effect is a consequence of prior investment selection based on firms' patent output.
Even though some minor heterogeneities in selection criteria were patent, the contrasting results are most likely the consequence of geographical specificities of the tested populations.
