For the past three years, the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, drawing on its unique store of patent data, has presented the "Top 100 Global Innovators" -- companies which, to a measurable extent, have distinguished themselves by turning creativity and originality into tangible assets.
A smartphone is essentially a combination of computer and telecommunications technology, and Microsoft has a deep store of patents in computing.
But rather than settle Facebook bought huge stores of patents from AOL / Microsoft and IBM and countersued with 10 patents, the same number it was sued by Yahoo with.
And even as the city's unemployment broadly remains high, vintage clothing stores selling patent-leather Dr. Martens boots for 180 euros, or $235, entice technology transplants from across Europe with promotions in English.
Carlson was a historian of journalism, Bates an English professor; their account is a story of Hearst's life as a decline into a savage cynicism, to the point that his "so-called 'news' papers are little more than a gigantic chain-store, selling political patent medicines and adulterated economics".
A complaint filed by Individual Network LLC claims that the iTunes store is violating a patent that caters to targeted media delivery.
A skeptical executive would be completely right to ask, "Won't sharing our ideas level the playing field and give away the keys to the candy store?" Imagine getting your patent attorney on board.
—Female, 18 29 years old, owner of patent medicine store in a slum in Ibadan Furthermore, sometimes providers perpetuate biases and myths about contraception to potential family planning users.
—Female, 18 29 years old, owner of patent medicine store in a slum in Ibadan We do not provide family planning to unmarried young girls because it can make them promiscuous.
It's a doddle to use, clean and store away and the patented blade system enables you to carefully control how small you chop.
