Patent in sentence

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But luckily, I found a patent online for industrial furnaces that use microwaves, and at 30 minutes at full power, and I was able to finish off the process.

The patent had 64 pages of text and 271 figures.

And Chester Carlson, the inventor, was a patent attorney.

He really was not intending to work in patent research, but he couldn't really find an alternative technical job.

Here you see a patent for an arm in 1912.

And there's a patent pending on these systems as well that's held by the community.

Gooseberry owned a patent for the creation and distribution of news releases via email.

The problem with these patents is that the mechanisms are obscure and the patent system is dysfunctional, and as a result, most of these lawsuits end in settlements.

And as a result, the patent troll can claim that they won the case.

One of the major problems with patent law is that, in the case that when you are sued by a patent troll, the burden of proof that you did not infringe on the patent is actually on the defendant, which means you have to prove that you do not infringe on the patent they're suing you on.

You need to know that the average patent troll defense costs two million dollars and takes 18 months when you win.

That is your best case outcome when you get sued by a patent troll.

And in discovery phase, we asked the patent troll to please provide screenshots of Fark where the infringement of their patent was actually occurring.

First of all, if you can, don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

Now the reason this works is because patent trolls are paid a percentage of what they're able to recover in settlements.

Now this is a tactic that patent trolls are supposed to use on people to get their way.

Patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history every year.

Now this is the point in the Talk where I'm supposed to come up with some kind of a solution for the patent system.

And the problem with that is that there are two very large industry groups that have different outcomes in mind for the patent system.

And as a result, patent trolls can kind of live in the space in between.

So unfortunately I'm not smart enough to have a solution for the patent troll problem.

My solution: award me this patent and I will troll them out of existence.

So in one year, we've negotiated manufacturing agreements, been awarded one patent, filed our second patent, talked to multiple people, demoed this to FEMA and its consultants to rave reviews, and then started talking to some other people who requested information, this little group called the United Nations.

I've had a patent, and that was cool, and we started a company, and it grew, and it became the biggest, and then it went down, and then it became the biggest again, which is harder than the first time, and then we sold it, and then we sold it again.

What he did was he looked at those companies that had an R&D center in USA and in India, and then he looked at a patent that was filed out of the U.S. and a similar patent filed out of the same company's subsidiary in India, so he's now comparing the patents of R&D centers in the U.S. with R&D centers in India of the same company to find out what is the quality of the patents filed out of the Indian centers and how do they compare with the quality of the patents filed out of the U.S. centers?

Interestingly, what he finds is — and by the way, the way we look at the quality of a patent is what we call forward citations: How many times does a future patent reference the older patent?

What we find is that the data says that the number of forward citations of a patent filed out of a U.S. R&D subsidiary is identical to the number of forward citations of a patent filed by an Indian subsidiary of the same company within that company.

First of all, there aren't a lot of big inventions in the pipeline, and this is a big problem for human health, and the pharmaceutical industry has got a bigger problem, that they're about to fall off something called the patent cliff.

Normal technology or innovation happens like this: Somebody has an interesting idea, some other scientist or engineer, they take it to the next level, they make a theory about it and maybe they patent it, and then some industry will make a contract of exclusivity to manufacture and sell it, and then, eventually, a buyer will buy it, and we hope that they are going to use [it] for a good purpose.

Now, American copyright and patent laws run counter to this notion that we build on the work of others.

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