patent coverage

If challenged in court, Nimslo's patent coverage could well prove to be cosmetic.

How could PSI expect competent patent coverage on their crazy infernal machine when they continually kept him in the dark?

In 1887 Berliner had obtained patent coverage in both Germany and England for the gramophone.

A United States Defensive Publication is a published patent application for which the inventor has elected not to get patent coverage.

The objective is to ensure that you do have patent coverage for things you might want to write, and to ensure that other parties don't sue you.

Due to patent coverage all US production was by National Lead, while large amounts were produced overseas by Nakazumi Company of Japan.

If a patent owner does suggest that there is patent coverage of what an alleged infringer is doing or planning to do, the alleged infringer may bring suit.

While other courts have chipped away at copyright protection for software, the highest patent court in the nation, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in five recent rulings has been expanding the patent coverage for software.

After the publication of "The British Army in India" Julius reduced his output of scientific papers, but continued to seek patent coverage for inventions as diverse as respirator improvements, sun blinds, furnaces, fireplaces and freezing meat.

Despite both the importance and the difficulties of getting patients to adhere to their regimens, physicians have become increasingly wary of drug companies' "improvements," in part because some changes have proved only cosmetic, extending patent coverage without offering any significant benefits to patients.

In addition to deciding against a legal battle over the spurned application, Dr. Varmus withdrew a second application that had been filed in the fall of 1992 but that had not yet been ruled on, one seeking patent coverage for an additional 4,448 genetic fragments.

A blog called Litigating Apple is also on Patel's side, writing: "You don't have to be a patent attorney or a paranoid Apple competitor to understand that this patent doesn't afford Apple broad patent coverage over all capacitive multi-touch interfaces."