Moreover, in the experiments performed in the US patent application, increased water consumption was recorded during feeding studies, which is a well-known effect of sympathomimetic agents, let alone the side effects, elucidated in the human clinical trial [ 17].
Telephia, however, holds patents on some techniques for media consumption tracking on the cellphone that are similar to Nielsen's approach in television, said Sid Gorham, president and chief executive of Telephia.
As a result, the USPTO explained, the application amounted to an attempt to patent an abstract idea the idea of hedging consumption risk using contracts.Mr Bilski appealed.
These licenses, hereafter referred to as government use licenses, were granted in accordance with Section 51 of the Thai Patent Act B.E. 2522, which permits the government use of patents in the general public interest, so that "any ministry, bureau or department of the Government" can exercise the rights in any patent "to carry out any service for public consumption".
The following year Watt took out the famous patent for "A New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire Engines".
One of my colleagues at IBM, Jim Hafner, is co-inventor of a patent that would offer driving directions based upon fuel consumption, figuring out the most economical routes based upon traffic and terrain.
Twitter's feed, Pinterest's home page, Google+'s stream, and nearly any content consumption service with some sort of login functionality also infringes on this patent.
The government use licenses for the seven medicines were granted under Section 51 of the Patent Act 1979 of Thailand, which authorizes the government use of patents in the general public interest, so that "any ministry, bureau or department of the Government" may exercise the right in any patent "to carry out any service for public consumption".
His name is on over 300 U.S. patents, and Apple products and software have had a massive impact on American media consumption.
"Calorie consumption is caused by abdominal breathing in full-throated vocalization," he explains in his patent.
