On October 6, 1942, the Patent Office issued Carlson's patent on electrophotography.

I filed a patent.

Proctor requested that the patent examination be continued, submitting additional patent claims and even changing his lawyers several times (allowing more bureaucratic delay).

My 44th patent about the 15th invention.

And I thought, I should patent this.

The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.

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So far we've applied for 414 patent claims.

This is what we re denouncing with the patent.

I've applied for a patent on my invention.

U. S. Patent 3,547,999, issued Dec. 15, 1970.

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Aspuac says that royalties received as a result of the patent would be divided among the community.

So, reform the international patent system to guarantee the poor access to essential medicines, but don t kill the goose that lays the golden egg by undermining the patent system.

It may be tempting to dismiss the Enola patent as an aberration, but there are hundreds of examples of such biopiracy.

Upon his return to America, he applied for his US patent for a revolving gun he was granted the patent on February 25, 1836 (later numbered 9430X).

Almost immediately, China became the world s top patent filer.

He was granted U.S. patent number 3,387,286 in 1968.

UNITAID s patent pool for AIDS medicines, for example, allows generics producers to make cheaper versions of patented medicines by enabling patent holders to license their technology in exchange for royalties.

In such cases, the innovation would never be implemented without patent protection, because no inventor could ever recoup costs.

In such cases, the innovation would never be implemented without patent protection, because no inventor could ever recoup costs.

In 2001, Google received a patent for its PageRank mechanism.

Requiring longer testing periods, and possibly extra resources, could be compensated by new drugs greater longevity on the market, and patent coverage could be extended.

China is fourth and rising in terms of international patent applications.

Developments that are fundamental to European competitiveness, like an EU wide patent, have proved impossible to achieve.

For the 20 years that the patent lasts, they will have a monopoly on the drug s sale and be able to command a high price.

The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.

drug prices in rich countries must remain higher through patent protection to preserve incentives for innovation

Or perhaps it will be less dramatic, dawning in the mind of a clerk gazing out the window of a patent office.

The patent conferred Proctor exclusive rights over a bean variety he called Enola.

As so often the case, there is no patent medicine against this syndrome.

Recent data for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tells an amazing story.

Miramontes Luis E. (1962), Hecogenin azine and alkyliden azinotigogenins , United States Patent 3033857.

Perhaps most importantly for the Maya community, a patent would be an acknowledgement of the of the significance and value of their work.

If they target diseases that affect affluent people, or people living in countries with national health insurance, they will be able to patent any new drugs they discover.

If they target diseases that affect affluent people, or people living in countries with national health insurance, they will be able to patent any new drugs they discover.

The recent expansion of patent protection is designed to prevent these problems and to bring a faster pace of innovation.

Developing country governments continue to go head to head with Big Pharma in battles over compulsory licensing and patent legislation.

OTTAWA In April 1999 Larry Proctor, a United States citizen and owner of a seed company, won a patent at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), claiming a Mexican yellow bean.

In 2009, about 280,000 domestic patent applications were filed in China, placing it third globally, behind Japan and the United States. China is fourth and rising in terms of international patent applications.

Moreover, so called patent thickets the fear that some advance will tread on pre existing patents, of which the innovator may not even be aware may also discourage innovation. After the pioneering work of the Wright brothers and the Curtis brothers, overlapping patent claims thwarted the development of the airplane, until the United States government finally forced a patent pool as World War I loomed.

The harm of inadequate patent protection in the financial world before 1998 was clear.

Resident inventors in Greece, by contrast, filed just 69 patent applications for every million.

In rich countries, patent protection should continue so that the pharmaceutical industry keeps innovating.

The matter was made worse by the fact that one click shopping seemed to be an obvious idea that shouldn't have been granted a patent in the first place.