Sentence examples for patent standards from inspiring English sources

But if these were their only shortcomings, then simply tightening patent standards would solve everything.

This simplifies today's tedious process, where national and PCT versions of the same patent have to be written to different patent standards.

India's patent authority gave Novartis exclusive marketing rights for its cancer drug Glivec for five years, in what was seen as the Indian government's willingness to accept global patent standards.

Weaker patent standards encourage patent proliferation and an enlargement of the thickets for research in areas such as biotechnology, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.This is not just a problem for America, but for the world, as America's trade negotiators push to harmonise global intellectual property protections to American levels.

Patents have proven to be important to the growth and financing of the American biotechnology industry, but it remains unclear whether current patent standards are suited to the needs of this industry.

But a USTR spokesperson said the agency needs restrictive patent standards in order to "incentivize" drug companies to supply medicine.

And with sloppier patenting standards, litigation has increased.

For domestic patent applications, institutional stability has either a weakly negative or insignificant effect, a result we attribute to generally escalating local patenting standards over time.

The suit is the latest in a long history of disputes among Rambus, chip makers and the federal government over patents, standards and alleged anticompetitive behavior.

In addition, patents and standards produced in IndCo projects (especially in FP6), represent the immediate impacts, even though the transport industry and service sector seem not to have been greatly involved.

While the new patent obviousness standard may make this patent harder to enforce, use of this technique may make ripping content from your TiVo quite a popular Digg story.