Sentence examples for patentees from inspiring English sources
EPO also granted 2,352 patents to Italian patentees, ranking Italy third in the EU after Germany and France and fourth among the EPO contracting states, behind Switzerland.If infringement were so widely spread in Italy, Italian and foreign companies would not afford the trust in the system that they evidently do.
The decrease in the quality of patents, as well as the increase in quantity and breadth, has raised uncertainty about the boundaries of the rights owned by patentees.
In 1584 to still the discontent, some of the rich patentees surrendered a number of copies to the company for the benefit of its poorer members.
In 1663, while Jolly was touring the provinces, Sir William Davenant and the dramatist Thomas Killigrew, the patentees holding the theatrical monopoly, conspired against him and persuaded the king to revoke Jolly's grant.
By a shrewd and legally questionable move, however, the patentees decided to transfer the management and the charter itself to Massachusetts.
The agreement specifies a minimum set of exclusive rights that all patentees must be accorded and mandates a minimum patent term of 20 years from the date an application is filed.
A patentee's entitlements also include the right to prevent others from making "equivalents" of the patented technology.
Many countries refuse to allow a patentee to "sit" on his invention in this fashion and instead compel him to "work" the patented technology, either by commercializing it or by licensing it to someone who will.
Similar rules are commonly applied when a principal patent generates other, "dependent" patents; the main patentee may be compelled to grant licenses to those who hold dependent patents.
If any of these entitlements is abridged, a court can, at the request of the patentee, compel the infringer to pay damages and to refrain from infringement in the future.
Judge Jerome N. Frank, of the Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote an opinion, establishing that it is immaterial whether a patentee correctly understands how his device operates.
