Sentence examples for patents contest from inspiring English sources

And Manchester University and others will fight back in the graphene patents contest.

So far, they've found 11,000 potential patents to contest in countries ranging from Poland to Korea, the U.S., and China — though they monitor just 65 of the country's roughly 7,500 endemic plants.

As far back as 1984, he authored legislation with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., that helped allow generic drugs to flourish but also gave brand-name pharmaceutical companies new powers to contest patent infringements by generics.

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario recently filed a lawsuit contesting patents on genes associated with long QT syndrome [ 73].

Hynix is among the memory-chip makers contesting the patents.

Animal rights activists in Germany are contesting three patents on genetically engineered chimpanzees granted this year by the European Patent Office EPOO) in Munich.

As Bevin points out, with the abundance of prior art, it might be easy to stop the patent from being granted in Europe now as it's much more effective to intervene during the examination process than it is to contest the patent once it's granted.

Furthermore, the Qualcomm patents that Nokia was contesting are left standing, but Nokia gets a good deal.

At the same time, the internal incentive system rewards the examiner for granting patents rather than continuing to contest the application.

[C14.] Contest Over BlackBerry Patent Today judges are scheduled to ponder whether the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry handheld e-mail device should be barred from doing business in the United States.

The contest to undermine the patent was sponsored by Tim O'Reilly, a publisher of technical information who wrote an open letter to Mr. Bezos in February 2000 criticizing him for promoting patents for business methods.