Sentence examples for took patent from inspiring English sources
According to Reuters, in 2004, Yahoo took patent claims to Google before it went public, and in exchange got shares in Google worth some $201 million at the time.
Several of the company's original investors have taken patent licenses, he said, but he would not name the companies.
"But we take patent infringement very seriously, and we are prepared to consider all options in order to defend our patents".
These people were talking about having to do genetic engineering in order to take patents.
"We take patents and try to make money from them in all ways known to man — sales, licensing and litigating, if necessary," Mr. Berten said.
Those arrangements are part of a practice known as privateering, Ms. Ramirez said, where an operating company takes patents that it owns that might be applicable to a rival's products and transfers them to a patent-assertion entity.
"If somebody goes out and forms a company and doesn't take patented intellectual property — only brings knowledge, know-how, that sort of thing — we wouldn't make any claims to it," said Lita Nelsen, director of the technology licensing office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The results of the regression taking patents for utility models and designs as the dependent variables are shown in Table 9.
"Hardly any financial analyst on Wall Street takes patents into account when they study a company," says Lev. "If they knew about the correlation between patents and profits, they might change their approach".
By taking patents away from trolls, and using them for defensive purposes only, you are actually disabling it as a weapon in the overall troll arsenal.
