In our analysis, guided by the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction [ 13], we developed regression models to identify the determinants of risk perception and predictors of patent's willingness to take the proposed medication (DMARD willingness).
According to the Foss Patents blog, "willingness to license certain patents can play a role in an injunctive relief analysis" — although, even if the same patents are involved, the impact on any future injunction is far from certain.
Intellectual Ventures may be best known for its huge archive of patents and its willingness to pursue lawsuits in defense of those patents, but it's also a part-time incubator to promising start-ups.
His mastery of his brief, his patent sincerity and his willingness to stand a little aside from the government's lust to pave over the south-east has won him the respect of greens.
Two NWI scenarios, patents and bioweapons, diminished willingness to donate by more than 10%age points in the overall sample, but proved to be more or less "non-partisan" in their effect on willingness to donate.
Mr Cook also said he hated litigation, signalling a willingness to settle patent disputes.
This has resulted in a showdown creating an environment ripe for abuse and confusion that could potentially impact the third-party's willingness to challenge patent applications.
Even large companies that are not yet facing patent expirations are showing a willingness to shell out huge sums for smaller innovators.
The HTC-Apple deal relates to utility patents, and Samsung is arguing that the iPhone maker's willingness to license some patents to HTC means that it should not be granted an injunction against Samsung devices claimed to infringe the same patents.
Another stated limitation which is common to many African countries was the high cost to file, maintain, and enforce patents, all which are the responsibility of the inventor; hence if the invention has no immediate financial returns, there is reduced willingness to attempt to patent.
