Sentence examples for patents from from inspiring English sources
It licensed its cloning patents from the University of Massachusetts.
Universities typically own patents from research, and professors may get a quarter of the revenue.
Intellectual Ventures, as well as generating its own ideas, buys sheaves of patents from others.
Facebook bought a bundle of patents from Friendster for $40 million in 2010.
On Monday it was reported to be looking at buying patents from Nortel Networks, for example.
Under the deal, Roche will get exclusive rights to those patents from Seaside.
Hilead has countersued, claiming Cathay stole patents from the Chinese Academy.
Last year, Huawei withdrew from purchasing patents from a computer-services company, 3Leaf, after U.S. objections.
(The Ford Escape hybrid uses a similar system; Ford licenses a number of patents from Toyota).
He and his wife subsequently acquired a portfolio of 14 patents from a company called Firepond.
Other European countries charge a renewal fee each year to prevent dormant patents from hindering new inventions.
