In a few years, the prize committees and patent courts will make their judgments.

Then we spent the following seven years in the patent courts convincing them that they had not all thought of it first."

Google has suffered a number of mobile phone setbacks recently, most of them in patent courts.

A second fix I would like is the retention of national patent courts, instead of phasing them out after seven years.

I agree, lastly, on the need to work towards a single patent court system, in order to standardise rights at supranational level.

Goebel's main evidence was witnesses, which US patent courts discounted.

For the general concept of patent court, see patent court.

Thus they technically purported to be claiming a new machine and this, the lower patent court held, was patentable.

Also, individual courts and judges may make their own practice directions, especially in specialist types of proceedings such as in the patent court.

His first patent was rejected by the patent court on grounds of plagiarising the technology common in India.

THE nation's highest patent court potentially strengthened the power of patent holders in a surprising opinion issued quietly this month.

German patent court grants Apple a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy tablet.

The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court establishes the court as a court of the member states.

A patent court is a court specializing in patent law, or having substantially exclusive jurisdiction over patent law issues.

Since 2007, Véron has served as an expert with the European Commission for projects involving the European Union patent court.

Because the Supreme Court rarely reviews patent cases, the Federal Circuit has become in essence the highest patent court in the land.

The injunction was stayed, pending RIM's appeal now before the Federal Circuit, the nation's highest patent court, which is supposed to hear oral arguments today.

The oldest member of the patent court, Judge Rich nonetheless became the first judge there to use E-mail regularly, Judge Clevenger said.

Either way, Research in Motion can appeal any decision to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the highest patent court in the land.

The stakes were high on Feb. 2, 1998, when Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories squared off here in patent court.

The initiative had been blocked because the European Union governments could not agree where to place the European patent court, or in which languages the patents should be published.

Judicial review But among the twists and turns in Fetter Lane's patent court, there were some important questions being raised about how such cases may be conducted in future.

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Today's Columns The nation's highest patent court rejected a bid to sell a cheaper version of the AIDS drug AZT.

Nest has taken the stance that they will see this through to a patent court as they suspect Honeywell is trying to harass them litigiously and financially out of business.