The conventional wisdom among economists has been that a robust patent system helped transform the United States into an economic powerhouse.
They can transform the world.
It has developed workshops over the last five years for transforming the language of patent abstracts and other arcana into simpler prose.
"The introduction of the patent box has transformed the way in which we view the UK as a location for new investments, ensuring that the medicines of the future will not only be discovered, but can also continue to be made here in Britain," said Glaxo chief executive Sir Andrew Witty.
Elcotel is breaking new ground with 27 software patents that would transformed the black box into a snappy unit with a five-inch video screen that provides ads, restaurant listings and access to "800" numbers.
Yet information technology has transformed the U.S. economy, not by identifiable patents, but by a powerfully enabling stack of open, unpatented protocols that we know as the Internet and the Web.
Jeff Bezos, having transformed the rules of the stock market, now wants to change the rules of the patent system.
[C5.] RealNetworks Obtains Multimedia Patent RealNetworks said a patent it had received for streaming multimedia content over the Web would give it an advantage in the rapidly growing market that is transforming the Internet into a broadcast medium.
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It transformed the debate.
He has transformed the city.
