expired patent

His invention was available to anyone, free of charge, as is true with any expired patent.

They pretended to have discovered something in an expired patent that nullified what I had.

The Chrysler system was based on some of Davis' expired patents.

Enabling follow-on innovation, through for example expired patents and copyright.

The issue the Courts dealt with concerned the legal question of whether trade dress protection could apply to the subject of an expired patent.

Until recently, acousto-magnetic systems were covered by now expired patents held by Sensormatic.

"The company has a very old product line, with expired patents and a series of development failures," Mr. Isaly said.

Patent lifetime differs from country to country; typically an expired patent cannot be renewed.

One of Biovail's strategies was to look for drugs with expired patents, then reinvent them with the company's proprietary technologies.

It is no longer a violation to mark a product with an expired patent, as long as that patent once covered the product.

Enabling competitive imitation, through for example expired patents and copyright, or publicly disclosed technologies that do not qualify for patent protection.

If its patents expire before any extension legislation is enacted, relief will be highly unlikely, since Congress virtually never resurrects expired patents.

The suits say Columbia abused the patent system by obtaining a new patent covering the same invention that an expired patent had covered.

He joined Dudley-Williams and Whittle in 1936 to develop Whittle's expired patent for a jet engine.

Four old antibiotics with expired patents - isoniazid, ethambutol, rifampicin and pyrazinamide - are the mainstays of first-line tuberculosis treatment.

Those that are not patented (or with expired patents) are called generic drugs since they can be produced by other companies without restrictions or licenses from the patent holder.

I had written first to the patent office, only to get a form letter back that all records of expired patents were now kept in the National Archives in Carlsbad Caverns.

Linoleum was first introduced by the Scottish Linoleum Company (later Barry, Ostlere and Shepherd), due to the expired patent of Frederick Walton in 1877.

Though NTBC is a government entity, it takes on the role of a consultancy in the areas of technology commercialization and promoting businesses development through the utilization of expired patents.

Early examples of these bottles sometimes have "CODD'S EXPIRED PATENT" embossed on them.

Ithaca became famous for building firearms based on expired patents owned by Remington Arms (in 1989, Remington purchased a design from Ithaca, the Mag-10 shotgun, which they produced as the SP-10).