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We are very pleased to reach a favorable settlement with Digital Persona regarding our patent rights. This settlement demonstrates the relevance of our intellectual property portfolio to the challenges faced everywhere today to secure computer networks against intrusion and loss. We believe that our patents and intellectual property are valuable assets, and we will continue to vigorously protect our rights.

We have filed a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement in the US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands.

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

Aside from the mythology involved, one way to look at the troll situation is that you have 'bad patent trolls,' on the one hand, and 'bad patent thieves,' on the other.

Contested patent outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. The fact that a patent is initially awarded to one party does not mean that the award cannot be contested.

Earnings growth has been surprisingly low for drug stocks and there is more of that to come as we go through a cycle of patent expirations, ... But I think the stocks are close to being washed out and if you have patience they will do quite well over a longer period of time.

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products don't infringe its patents. We have our own patents.

The WIPO is the world's premier organization for establishing norms for the protection of IP. In the patent field, its Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) permits an applicant to file a single patent application that can mature into a patent application in every designated member PCT country around the globe. This represents considerable savings for applicants filing in numerous countries.

These companies don't know what's going to be valuable, what will be the next big thing, so they try to patent absolutely everything.

The Supreme Court only hears patent cases approximately 7% of the time. Therefore, the Supreme Court's rejection of the case was largely anticipated and the Appellate court decision remains in place. Merck has exhausted all avenues to regain U.S. exclusivity beyond February 2008, at which point generics are expected.

Qualcomm has a very viable patent portfolio, and they are trying to extract the maximum amount of money out of it that they can while at the same time the licensees are looking to spend as little as possible for the right to use the patents. It is likely that what is going on is some business maneuvering going on both sides.

Putting a patent on taro is like putting a copyright on Jesus, and every time you pray to him you have to pay me with bread and wine.

People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

Add on the fact that the Patent Office has rejected all the patents at issue and it's a pretty compelling case.

After a string of unfortunate events for RIM, we believe the company has been boosted by the District Court's decision to elongate the final briefing timeline, while the Patent Office expedites its re-examination.

Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.

On Command has been a technology leader in the hospitality industry since its earliest beginnings. This patent is further evidence of our position as the leader in innovation and groundbreaking technology for the hospitality industry. This patent secures our methodology of delivering video-on-demand to the guest and our foundation for advancing new applications to drive revenue for our hotel customers.

Collaboration between the Patent Office and the open source community builds on the momentum of the open source model. There is powerful logic in tapping vast public resources to address the growing public interest in patent quality.

Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source,

An injunction would give free reign to patent trolls-those companies that use the patent system as the exclusive basis for suing other firms over disputed technology.

Apple tried to claim invention, but this patent dispels that. We are going to look at all the alternatives that the patent provides. We can look at legal remedies.

As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not yet written.

This is a patent they held since 2000, ... Why bring it now?

This is not the first such patent to be granted, but it shows that patent examiners are being duped by false science.

This is precisely what the patent office said it was going to do.

The U.S. Patent Office is currently reexamining those patents, and we fully expect the Patent Office to confirm the reach of our patents.

This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support and encourage medical innovators, not undermine them,

This approval takes some risk out of the equation for them. If they can get the production capacity, it has the potential to be a significant drug. The big issue for Bristol is patent expirations and whether the pipeline can offset them.

Third Wave is well versed in the HCV patent landscape and has taken great care to understand and respect all the major patents in the field, including those held by Innogenetics. Innogenetics' suit lacks a basic understanding of the uniqueness of Third Wave's Invader chemistry and how it is configured in our HCV analyte-specific reagents. It appears that Innogenetics filed suit against Third Wave without first understanding how our product is designed.

They were exact scale models. If they got approved, you could get a patent for it.

A lot of their big drugs are going to lose patent protection, without the introduction of new drugs that will offset that, ... buy.

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

There's a lot of practical interest and a lot of academic interest in the patent system. And I think the community is going to be extremely motivated to do (reviews).

A suggestion that's being made by some countries is that there are countries that have the capacity to manufacture the vaccine, that we actually need to assist them with technology transfers, ... a euphemism for loosening the patent laws.

It?s escalated into something more than a little Virginia company and a Canadian-based company, Research in Motion. It turned into an international squabble about patent rights.

It is our top pick. I like the lack of patent expirations...They have a portfolio of new products.

It is our top pick. I like the lack of patent expirations... They have a portfolio of new products.

It's not realistic or honest to claim that mining companies will suddenly turn into real estate speculators ... and apply for a patent (privatizing the land) only to sell the land for a hotel or other business development.

It may not be resolved here; but there are countries out there that are saying they will defy patent protections and we couldn't be judgmental if people are dying,

eBay commends the Patent Office for its willingness to reexamine this patent and is impressed with the thorough analysis contained in this second office action.

The BlackBerry is the perfect example of what's wrong with our patent system, but it is certainly not the only one.

The award is for organization-wide achievement, requiring concerted effort by all levels of the organization - your board, management team, employees and medical staff - to achieve excellence. Your selection is based on objective statistical measurement of objective statistical measurement of performance across five critical areas: clinical outcomes, patent safety, operational efficiency, financial stability and growth.

It is the second time that the patent office has thoroughly vetted the patent claim. We're pleased that the ruling confirms our position all along.

No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a protective haven where developers can innovate without fear.

It was one of the most flexible and popular and sought-after designs for much longer than the usual patent life of the product.

I still believe Pfizer will win the U.S. case, but you can never make any assumptions in a patent dispute.

It will speed this farce up a bit. SCO was saying that because of the patent counterclaims, they needed discovery, more depositions. SCO has no money to pay damages or royalties due to dropping sales figures, so it doesn't matter to IBM to drop them.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has been somewhat embarrassed by how this thing transpired.

The settlement is a win-win deal, though it is very painful for RIM, and it proves that our patent system is completely broken. NTP gets $612 million for coming up with a fairly obvious idea, patenting it and suing a company too arrogant to settle early on.

It's no big stretch to do it for a medicine, particularly in a case like this, where a patent owner cannot supply the stockpiles of medicines that the WHO says are necessary.

Any attempts to change or weaken current patent laws could have a profound impact on our companies' ability to create new innovative drugs and save lives.

A patent suit will take second place to a criminal matter.

A patent commons allows IT industry to add value above the operating system.

Improving the patent process will take everyone working together applicants and the USPTO. Better-quality applications mean better examination. We need more focus throughout and closure to the examination process.

I'm pleased that FSF is going to add patent defense to its new GPL 3. Many other open-source licenses have such provisions already.

I had no qualms about patenting technology. When I was at MIT, there was a professor who came up with a potential treatment for epilepsy, but he didn't patent his invention. By the time he approached drug companies about testing the treatment, it was already in the public domain and they wouldn't do any work with it, even though it was potentially a huge improvement on existing therapies. That's when I realized the importance of patents.

I never knew how many little things went into someone's death: choosing the right black patent leather shoes for the little girls to wear; finding out what day someone's paycheck stops; seeing suits and shirts, still in their dry cleaning bags, hanging in a closet.

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision.

In the patent world, the user of a product is responsible for figuring out which intellectual property obligations they have and how to meet them. They become vulnerable if infringing a patent under which they are not licensed.

In the past, if I only licensed my bread-making patent to a miller if he also bought his wheat from my brother then I was liable to lose that patent. That provision was lost in the Competition Act of 2000.

In Pennsylvania, this alleged illegal activity forced consumers and government agencies to pay much higher prices for the brand-name, anti-anxiety drug, ... It appears Bristol-Myers Squibb attempted to manipulate federal drug regulations to extend the patent and continue its monopoly on the product.

In accordance with China's relevant laws, the party that has its patent revoked can bring the case to the people's court for administrative litigation.

By doing this, we give defendants and potential defendants a way to avoid significant exposure to antitrust and patent cases.

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I developed this thing probably 10 years ago out of frustration of forever having to take my truck box in and out. Then I applied for the patent a couple of years ago.

I do believe that there's a patent quality problem. A lot of people who don't have an ax to grind think there needs to be reform.

I do believe that there's a patent quality problem,

He basically has a patent on that type of performance. He's done a great job as a both a closer and set-up man for us before, so it was nice to see him pitch well as a starter, too.

The license of our patent portfolio with AMD's demonstrated innovation in the microprocessor market is highly compelling.

These are complex cases that merit coordinated decision making. With today's order and our new filing, we are taking steps consistent with the nature of these cases and with our efforts over the past four years to see them resolved in California. While we prefer to resolve issues outside of the courtroom, we believe we have a strong patent position, including patents that issued in the past four years that must be defended appropriately.

The cause of the lawsuit is not that we are patent trolls. The cause of the lawsuit is that these defendants used our patented technology to make over $1.5 billion in revenue.

All we have to prove is that the Patent and Trademark Office was correct in issuing our patents, and then we can settle damages.

All that has happened is Apple's patent has received final rejection, and that is a non-event. This is really making a mountain out of a molehill.

The court did nothing to change the law as it applies to copyrights. We view the case as a decision in patent law. If the law were changed for copyrights, it would not mean block booking was legal.

The concern is that Bristol could be the next shoe to drop as far as patent expiration and reining in the numbers, ... But the company has a pretty decent late-stage pipeline.

Hope it strange invention --/ A Patent of the Heart --/ In unremitting action/ Yet never wearing out.