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We are pleased that the Japanese Patent Office and the European Patent Office have upheld the validity of these important patents, ... The confirmation of these inventions strengthens our patent portfolio in Japan and Europe and emphasizes the international value of the many licenses granted by Qualcomm.

- Ben Miller

We are pleased that the Japanese Patent Office and the European Patent Office have upheld the validity of these important patents. The confirmation of these inventions strengthens our patent portfolio in Japan and Europe and emphasizes the international value of the many licenses granted by Qualcomm.

- Ben Miller

(An appeals court found that Illinois Tool works was guilty of tying.) Typically courts require in a tying lawsuit that you show that a company has market power, which is the ability to control the price that you sell the product for because there are no real competitors, ... In this case, the appeals court said that since this printer is a patented product, the existence of that patent is enough to say that you have market power.

- David Price

A patent suit will take second place to a criminal matter.

- Mike Williams

(But his role in the actual invention was murkier, disputed over decades in the courts and even now in scientific circles.) You would have a lot of argument, ... Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the 30-Year Patent War.

- Nick Taylor

What we`re seeing initially is a reduction in the number of cases allowed. Many of these will eventually get a patent, though.

- John Love

We are delighted to be able to include Matt`s expertise among the firm`s resources. Our software patent procurement, counseling, and litigation practices have grown rapidly, and with the addition of Matt to the LL&A team, we have expanded our ability to fully meet the needs of our clients in these areas.

- Tom Sullivan

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

- Lawrence Lessig

Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent.

- Kim Campbell

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

- Jeffrey Sachs

In the past, if I only licensed my bread-making patent to a miller if he also bought his wheat from my brother then I was liable to lose that patent. That provision was lost in the Competition Act of 2000.

- Ross Anderson

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That`s how the patent office defines it. That`s an invention.

- Alan Starling

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

- Alessandro Banchi

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

- Ali Dayih

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that`s how we were able to get the patent,

- Andy Hall

(Neither does Greg Patent, author of) Baking in America ... If you want cakey, eat chocolate cake. Brownies should be dense and moist and fudgy.

- Andy Hodges

patent commons project.

- Andy O'Brien

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

- Anthony Bartolo

I never knew how many little things went into someone`s death: choosing the right black patent leather shoes for the little girls to wear; finding out what day someone`s paycheck stops; seeing suits and shirts, still in their dry cleaning bags, hanging in a closet.

- Ashley Cadwallader

As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not yet written.

- Aubin Goporo