As a result, patent officials say they have more work.

I should like now to say a few words about patents.

And what will patents themselves look like in the future?

The best time to start is when your patent comes through.

People seem to have a problem getting one important point about patents.

Patents really need to go away, they're the thing of the past.

Its not so much the patents I have a problem with.

Not even people who think they get the patent system.

We took a look at the good and bad side of technology patents.

No person should ever the right to put a patent on life.

I have a hard time thinking of how you could make the patent system good.

A few years later I left for a job in industry and never heard of patents again!

He got the patent for these on March 3, 1941.

He has received a patent at the age of 77.

They'll get the patents and make it to the market first.

Beginning in 1892, he took out a series of patents.

This work has led to a patent on the technology.

And why is it even in the patent office to begin with.

It's the patent office first and the court system second.

A week ago the patents were fine but today their not.

My point is that Patents are just part of the story.

Thus, they have no need for rights to practice other companies' patents.

By the end of his career, John held over 60 patents.

My point is, that patent could never have seen the light of day.

In many cases companies who want patents do not know where they stand.

California residents filed the most patent applications in 1996: 23,082.

Of course typically patent infringement is a two way street.

In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners.

His specialty was patent law, and he made several valuable inventions.

Here are patent numbers and descriptions for a few.

These medicinal products are patent protected and in general expensive.

"But at the guts of this battle is patent portfolios," he said.

Omissions are most patent perhaps in surveys made with a political bias.

Lawyers said the decision would have a big impact on how patent licensing deals are structured.

On the model's feet were patent leather boots with clunky low heels.

His shoes were patent leather loafers with a gold trim.

The idea that liberals feel the shuttle explosion was a tragedy is patent nonsense.

His dismay was so patent that Bridget noticed it.

There would be patent issues as well.

If the condition is violated the conduct is patent infringement.

"We have more patent development in the private sector than in the public sector," he said.

Its employees are predominantly patent attorneys, physicists, engineers and biotechnologists.

That one core problem is patent law.

Their versions were patent contrivances, calling attention to their artificiality.

Samsung - gives them patent power against Apple, some leverage with Google.

Another factor that could slow the progress of transdermal delivery is patent litigation.

Both Microsoft and Apple often patent ideas that ultimately don't make it to released products.

That was patent number one.

And some messages were patent nonsense.

The drug is patent free.

There's no way you should be able to patent an end result.

All my friends were telling me I should patent the idea.

Such systems are already patented and under test at the moment.

He patented both the material and the process in 1963.

What will be patented are products made by human hand and nothing else!

This research, though important to the growth of food technology, was never patented.

Wang was able to patent the system on his own.

That kind of expertise is hard to patent, or to own.

In other words, software may be patented, but not alone.

In other words, that parts of the human body can be patented.

Some are still patented while others have long been abandoned.

How can you patent one specific application of such a general idea?

He finally published and patented the idea later in that year.

Probably about the time that a machine to make them was patented in 1849.

In any case, he figured it out and patented everything.

They patent the medical uses to which the drug can be applied.

They then try to patent the seeds and sell them back to the poor countries.

He later patented his design, which was first available for sale in 1929.

He patented the last two, and manufactured them for a short time.

"I understand now why you patented the process in your own name.

This system was patented in October 1890 and development continued.

"We will have everyone trying to patent the entire human genome," he said.

I say they should just patent the laws of physics and have done with it.

They then patented the technology and by 2006, it was used in pesticides.

Before you can claim your own, however, you'll need to determine what's already been patented.