Sentence examples for request a patent from inspiring English sources

Because of our request, a patent examiner picked up the second application first.

An international application theoretically enables the applicant to request a patent in each of the 141 countries signatory to the PCT [3].

Patent protection only applies to the country or countries where an inventor requested a patent from the country's government.

Earlier this year, the university filed an official request for a "patent interference" which, if allowed, will force the US patent office to decide which academic institution owns the intellectual rights over Crispr in a "winner-takes-all" decision.

While scientists at Rochester and other universities first discovered the Cox-2 enzyme, Searle developed a drug to block the action of that enzyme but did not know of Rochester's request for a patent.

If the patent office approves it, the request for a "patent interference," as the process is known, sets up a winner-takes-all challenge in which either the Broad Institute, or the University of California and two co-petitioners, including the University of Vienna, will come away with all the rights to the gene-editing system, leaving their rival with nothing.

If they fail to respond to a request from a patent office for more information within a set time limit, fail to pay related fees or write in to cancel their application, patent office officials can judge it to be abandoned.

Small inventors who needed time and money to fully develop and test their ideas could request a provisional patent until they were ready for a full filing.

The news comes two weeks before a federal court in Richmond, Va., will begin hearings on a request by NTP, a patent holding company based in Arlington, Va., to ban the sale and use of BlackBerries in the United States.

In March 2012, bankruptcy court judge Allen Gropper, overseeing Kodak's restructuring, denied Apple's request to file a patent complaint with the ITC over some of Kodak's cameras, photo frames, and printers.

Outlined in the AIA, the CBM program allows those who are sued for infringing on certain types of financial business method patents to request a review of the patent's legitimacy from the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board, rather than going through the extortion racket of litigation and settlement.