But there is nothing tiny about the patent portfolio that Harvard has amassed over the last 25 years based on work in his lab.
MercExchange, a tiny, Virginia-based patent-holding company, won millions of dollars in damages when it successfully sued eBay for violating one of its patents related to the fixed-price auction feature.
Outlining the grid are tiny strips of black patent leather and matte silver zippers, with the interior spaces filled in with pleated black tulle.
Supposed to entice entrepreneurs with a 10% tax rate on any patented product, all it brought was enterprising tax lawyers applying the 10% tax to anything that had even a tiny part with a patent inside it, not even manufactured in the UK.
In a piece of legislation recently passed by the House and the Senate to revamp patent law, a tiny provision was inserted at the last minute called Section 18.
Despite living less than two hours' drive from the coast, Martha – who is so small she might be mistaken for a five or six year old, with the same close-cut hair as Jessie but black patent shoes and tiny, hoop earrings – has never been to the beach.
Now the Bulgarian immigrant, who has since become an American citizen and a practicing physician in this country, has won a patent for a tiny connector that he hopes will eliminate the need for the delicate end-to-end stitching together of blood vessels.
Each of these patents is a tiny masterpiece of logic and disputation.
As an example, he points to Genetic Technologies, a tiny Australian company that has patented many parts of so-called "junk" DNA.
ADM's new plastic, backed by 130 issued or pending patents, comes from tiny biotech Metabolix of Cambridge, Mass., formed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
