L.C. Yee, "China Tops US, Japan to Become Top Patent Filer," Reuters, Dec. 21, 2011.
The college employs top patent lawyers who also work for some of the big pharmaceutical companies.
He takes the money and a sheaf of papers to Farnsworth, a top patent lawyer, played by Buck Henry.
If China becomes the world's top patent-generator, the world's press will go wild.Yet there are reasons for scepticism.
But by 1994, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation's top patent court, was blessing protection for virtually any software with a practical purpose.
Nest's chief counsel, Chip Lutton, was, until 2011, Apple's top patent lawyer, during a period that included Apple fights with Google, Samsung, Motorola, and HTC.
But top patent officials removed the most damaging revelations from the report, providing the agency's inspector general with an account half the length and with many potentially embarrassing findings removed.
At Geim and Novoselov's academic home, the University of Manchester, the British government invested sixty million dollars to help create the National Graphene Institute, in an effort to make the U.K. competitive with the world's top patent holders: Korea, China, and the United States, all of which have entered the race to find the first world-changing use for graphene.
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its annual list of the top patent recipients for 2003.
