But this weekend the ALS Association was forced to withdraw an attempt to patent the phrase "ice bucket challenge" after criticism.
When US basketball player Anthony Davis decided to publicly embrace his own impressive unibrow by attempting to patent the phrase 'Fear the Brow', he found a kindred spirit in David Shariatmadari.
The N.F.L. has not yet patented that phrase so it can be used only in reference to the draft.
Yet Mr. Detkin, who was once in charge of patents for Intel and claims to have coined the phrase "patent troll" in 2001, said Intellectual Ventures sued only under its own name, and did not hide its litigation through shell companies of mysterious lineage.
It has applied for a patent on the phrase "fundamental index" to establish its brand name.But Jeremy Siegel, a respected professor from the University of Pennsylvania, has launched a rival index series under the WisdomTree brand that weights stocks solely on their dividends.
gets hopped on ale and goofballs and spills the beans, bloggers have found the secret iPhone patent complete with the constipated phrasing that makes these such a joy to read.
In addition, the company also added a "Prior Art Finder" feature to Google Patents that automatically scans the web, Google Patents, Google Scholar and Google Books for key phrases from a patent's text.
Patent abstracts containing the keyword and phrase "RFID" and "Radio Frequency Identification" were collected for analysis, content extraction, and clustering.
But in October of last year, a Pasadena farmstead registered the phrase with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Thus, in Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp., Chief Justice Stone distinguished inclusion of a limiting phrase in an original patent claim from the "very [*25] different" situation in which "the applicant, in order to meet objections in the Patent Office, based on references to the prior art, adopted the phrase as a substitute for the broader one" previously used.
Statistical noun phrase translation, Philipp Koehn, United States Patent 8,548,794 B2, awarded 2013, pdf.
