Sentence examples for patents to avoid from inspiring English sources
The policy, being announced today, includes standards like clearly identifying the corporate ownership of patents, to avoid filings that cloak authorship under the name of an individual or dummy company.
Because the university lacked the equipment to produce the alloys, its engineering school could not interest any other company in development and ended up forfeiting the patents to avoid paying the tens of thousands of dollars needed to renew them every few years.
Facebook was in danger of having to either settle with Yahoo or license the old tech giant's patents to avoid uncertainty heading into its own IPO.
Apple's opponents, meanwhile, say the iPhone maker is trying to use patents to avoid competing solely in the market.
Your university may even have the right to drop, at their sole discretion, the patent to avoid paying renewal costs.
Microsoft has filed suit against Motorola claiming nine cases of patent infringement (and got HTC to license its patents, likely to avoid a legal dispute).
He also thinks the software will enable patent lawyers to avoid complications that can arise when they try to write a patent application without enough consultation with the inventor.
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Bloomberg has come to that conclusion after hearing rumors from Foxconn and the hire of Matt Gordon, a specialist in patent protection to avoid lawsuits.
Researchers have for years devoted creative energy to figuring out patent "work-arounds" to avoid penalties from patent holders.
It stipulates, among other things, standardised forms that all patent offices must accept, basic standards for electronic submission of patents, and mechanisms to avoid loss of rights due to non-essential formalities or unintentional delays.
