Sentence examples for patent donations from inspiring English sources

For all the complications, patent donations are expected to grow as companies generate more patents.

Robert F. Smith, general manager of Delphion, a patent research service owned by the Thomson Corporation, said he did not expect the I.R.S. announcement to deter legitimate patent donations.

"You could twist this into another way that companies are raping the U.S. Treasury," said Gordon P. Etrash, a former Dow Chemical executive who oversaw development of Dow's patent management program and first donations in the mid-1990's.

Both teams were taking part in Extreme Blue, a residential summer internship run worldwide by IBM that is now in its eleventh year and has so far been responsible for over 400 patent disclosures and 60 open source donations.

But the newly announced donation of the SureChem patent chemistry data resource to the EBI changes that.

The moves come after a string of reports over the last year or so have called into question nonprofit practices ranging from making favorably priced loans to insiders to overvaluing noncash donations like land, cars and patent rights for tax deductions.

The crackdown on the donation of patents and copyrights is supposed to raise even more–$3.7 billion over ten years.

In this case no donation was needed, as the drug's patent has expired.

Şerbănică (2011) gave an overview of knowledge circulation indicators; she distinguished funding flow (in the form of grants, donations and contracts), cooperation, strategic partnerships, co-publications and patent statistics.

He has received one unrestricted donation from Eli Lilly as disclosed above which holds the patent for the IMP relating to the content of this manuscript.

Although a manuscript may be the basic monetary unit of science, it is the equivalent of a charitable donation from a business perspective if one's intellectual property does not have patent protection.