Meanwhile, Figure 6(b) and (e) shows that a high (z_{mathrm{min}}), signifying more typical, has a noticeable negative effect on a patents future.
As academic participants generally achieve fewer industrial applications and patents, future research should control for FNR project participants' professional background (i.e., academic, industry, business, government) to determine to what extent the cases are in FNR projects.
Now that the drug is without patent protection, future F.D.A. approvals will depend on studies by two companies.
Since part of this work has already been patented (References: 51), we/NIPGR may sell the patents in future.
Though Google could potentially use some of the technology in the Nortel patents in future research, the company said it wanted to buy them to defend against patent litigation.
AdBidCentral powers sales of futures-oriented premium display advertising on top comScore-rated publisher sites with a patent-pending futures marketplace platform that aims to make forecast buying and selling of premium display digital media "easy, efficient and intuitive".
That may be a precursor of future patent assertion entities (PAEs), commonly known as "patent trolls".
Don Fancher, a principal at Deloitte & Touche in Houston, Texas, offers this scenario: Two organizations try to create a joint venture; if the smaller one doesn't have cash, he says, it could give the larger a share of future patent revenue and the right to use patented technologies.
There is also a journal feature, for keeping notes on things patent conditions and future appointments.
The idea was to lay the groundwork for future patent infringement lawsuits against generic companies -- suits that could keep rivals off the market, or at least delay them.
