The number of valid patents ranks top 12 among Chinese colleges and universities.

"Machine-or-transformation" instead remains a valid patent test, but it's not the only one that can be used.

Thus, an examiner's objections are directed at ensuring that a valid patent issue.

In fact, any valid patent that was issued in less than three years from the filing date will get the 20-year term.

A valid patent also requires a non-obvious invention.

So I'm not sure how their patent portfolio will stand up when Apple is suing them with probably at least a few valid patents.

However, Stocrin and Viracept do have valid patents in Brazil.

This legislation should provide all valid patent owners with an unconditional right to obtain a permanent injunction, irrespective of the owner's business or identity.

At the time Motorola overtook the developers and their patents, they held 50 valid patents and had 40 waiting for approval.

Lazear, however, no longer has any ownership rights in these pending applications and cannot receive any royalties from them should they ever issue as valid patents.

In late 1989, a Federal district court in Boston ruled that both companies had valid patents and that each was infringing the claims of the other.

Assuming it is a valid patent, whether it is valid and ethical for Lodsys to go after the small app developers.

I ask because Apple is merely using the system within its own guidelines, and the 'gatekeeper' role played by your patent office has ruled this a valid patent.

But Ms. Carver said the company still had a valid patent on tamoxifen, so it was not possible that there could be a true generic drug on the market.

Under a compulsory license, the government allows other companies, or in Brazil's case, the government itself, to make generic copies of brand name drugs that are protected by valid patents.

In December 1989, a Federal court in Boston held that both companies had valid patents, setting the stage for Amgen to be forced to cross-license with its rival.

While it acknowledged the possibility of a valid patent covering a "program servicing a computer," it found that "pure" software patents like the one at issue in the case were not valid:

Under current law, a design must be more than unique to earn a valid patent; it must also be "non-obvious" to those in the field, a difficult standard for what may be ornamental refinements.

In a decision that leaves patent rights to a valuable new genetically engineered drug still in hot dispute, a Federal magistrate in Boston ruled yesterday that two competing biotechnology companies have valid patents.

Two competing biotechnology companies have valid patents to a valuable new drug produced with recombinant DNA technology and used to combat anemia in patients suffering from kidney failure, a Federal magistrate ruled.

Both Patents Valid The court move comes seven weeks after Genetics and Chugai won an important victory over Amgen that said both had essentially valid patents on EPO.

The amendments inserted a new section 26B which required applicants for marketing approval to certify their product would not infringe a valid patent claim, or that the patent holder has been notified of the application.

Brian L. Jones, a spokesman for SmithKline, said yesterday that the company had not broken any laws and, instead, was simply taking legal measures to protect its rights to Paxil, which it believes is covered by valid patents.

Samsung is not out of the woods yet, clearly Apple can still bring them to trial as the judge even indicates that Samsung is most likely infringing on these patents (now whether they are even valid patents is another matter).

On claims to computer programs on a carrier, where such programs implement a patented invention, the Commission can accept any solution between the common position and the Commission’s original proposal, including alternative formulations to achieve the same objective of enforcing valid patents.