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Such legal arguments may take four or five years, by which time Myriad's BRCA patents start expiring.

Although its major patents start expiring in 2014, the executives say the company's patent protection should last until at least 2018.

The newest patent issues will start with an 8 million number (e.g. 8,123,456), while earlier patents start with earlier numbers (e.g. 7,456,789).

Legislation and regulations concerning the development of 'biosimilar' mAbs remain to be fully defined, but as current patents start to expire, this situation must soon change [ 57].

Eventually, Gould received a series of four patents starting in 1977 that earned him millions of dollars in royalties.

As patents started to expire they realised it was pretty hard to replace those with anything that was truly new.

At the time, software was protected by copyright, which automatically comes with any creative work; software patents started to be allowed only in the 1980s, but were rarely sought.

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert H. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.

To relaunch "Brand Ayurveda," government agencies have filed dozens of international patents, started research programs at top Indian universities and sent experts to develop ayurveda courses at colleges around the world.

The documentation for the IAS machine was all published, which meant that the machine could be cloned elsewhere (and indeed was by commercial companies such as IBM, as well as other research institutes), whereas the guys who built the ENIAC lodged patents, started a company and in due course became enmeshed in litigation.

There had been pressure from shareholders, led by Starboard Value, to realize some of the value from those patents, starting last year, when investors began to grumble that the company was not focused enough on what it could be doing to make more money, and not monetizing fast enough on its growing media portfolio (of which TC is a part…).