Sentence examples for patents from a from inspiring English sources

Last year, Huawei withdrew from purchasing patents from a computer-services company, 3Leaf, after U.S. objections.

He and his wife subsequently acquired a portfolio of 14 patents from a company called Firepond.

In an exploratory study, 127 individual patents from a semiconductor company were evaluated comprehensively by technical and marketing representatives.

[537 U.S. 237] In 1861, Congress amended the term of patents, from a 14-year term plus opportunity for 7-year extension to a flat 17 years with no extension permitted.

This would be enough for many applications, such as pocket calculators or handheld organisers, and there is room for further improvement.That just leaves the memory, for which Rolltronics has licensed patents from a group of researchers at the University of Texas led by Allen Bard.

Obviously, we don't know if Apple will use this technology, but patents from a company they previously acquired, Fingerworks, reveal two patents that might apply to the new Apple Tablet.

As with many other products–including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques (see time line).

Google's deal for Motorola comes just weeks after it lost a bid to a consortium led by Apple and Microsoft for 6,000 patents from Nortel, a Canadian communications company that filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

By Shore's calculation, transferring a patent from a non-sovereign entity to a sovereign one would increase its value anywhere from four to ten times over.

Meanwhile, the use of compulsory licences effectively withdraws a patent from a drug completely if it is deemed prohibitively expensive to a domestic market and a vital public health need.

Neither is the technology, which is based on a business process patent from a 1997 site called SixDegrees.com that failed because too few people were online at the time.