But one can use a rough-and-ready yardstick: in how many places did the inventors seek a patent for the same technology?
On Feb. 14, 1876, the day that Bell filed an application for a patent for a telephone, Gray applied for a caveat announcing his intention to file a claim for a patent for the same invention within three months.
Drug companies often file patent upon patent upon patent for the same drug, protecting different aspects of formulation, different clinical applications, or even the chemicals that the body turns the drug into once it has been taken.
UC Berkeley filed a patent on behalf of Doudna's work, but the Broad Institute used a fast-track option to beat UC Berkeley regarding a patent for the same technique on the more complex eukaryotic cells.
The whole trail is kind of convoluted but it seems there is a company, Klausner Technologies, with a patent for the same concept as SimulSays, SimulScribes visual voicemail solution for RIM and WinMo as well as Apple's Visual Voicemail.
Judges Linn and O'Malley, in a separate opinion, said they would have also found Alice's method and media claims patent-eligible for the same reasons expressed in Chief Judge Rader's opinion regarding Alice's system claims.
The molecules described in this paper have commercial potential and patent applications for the same are being processed.
Brazil had earlier declined patent rights for the same product, declaring it of interest to public health in that country.
The molecules described in this paper have commercial potential and a patent application for the same is being processed.
Dr. Thomson told the technology transfer office that there was nothing patentable in the research, even though he already knew that Agios had begun filing for patents on the same work, the lawsuit says.
