The possible bias because of reinfection was not possible because of the luck of insects and S. tundra nematodes' 3 to 4 month's pre-patent time [ 9].
But these days, she says, the only drug for sale in Man is OxyContin, a narcotic painkiller that users crush -- to disable its patented time-release mechanism -- and then snort or inject for a powerful and immediate opiate high.
Bringing down that "patent pending" time is one of the goals that the new director of patents and trademarks, James E. Rogan, inherited when he started his job this month.
The first major trait to lose its patent, in time for the 2014 growing season, will be Monsanto's best-selling gene for making soybeans resistant to a popular herbicide.
She filed that application in May and is now applying for a second patent, this time for the process of extraction itself (not source-dependent) to bolster the future development of the project.
In March, Diversa received its 28th patent, this time for "genomic biopanning," the technique used to harvest DNA.
So here we have another bezel-related patent, this time concerned with Radial menus.
We also control for variables that have traditionally been used in studies of inventive performance including inventor age, applicant type, technology, patent, and time information.
The second patent, "real-time signal processing for serially transmitted data", of US Patent No. 6,343,263.
On Nov. 28, the company reported a smaller quarterly loss than anticipated ($8.2 million, down from $11.1 million a year ago) and the next day, the Patent and Trademark Office recognized TiVo's patent on time-warp technology, which lets users record one program while watching another.
