After expiration of the patent, competitors can copy the method or product legally.

After the defeats at Lützen ( 2 May 1813 ) and Bautzen ( 21 May 1813 ), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spirit into the Allies ; and at the conference of Trachenberg he drew up the general plan for the campaign which began after the expiration of the Truce of Plaswitz.

After the expiration of the first ( 1978 ) arithmetic coding patent, range encoding appeared to clearly be free of patent encumbrances.

After the expiration of the copyright on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961, and especially since the Sadler's Wells production and recording, various directors have experimented with restoring some or all of the cut material in place of the 1920s D ' Oyly Carte version.

After the expiration of the 20-year peace treaty between the Empire and Bulgaria in 836, Theophilos ravaged the Bulgarian frontier.

After the expiration of the trademark in the late 1990s, Burger King unsuccessfully tried to introduce the brand to the continent.

After the expiration of the transitional period, these codes are free to be reassigned.

After the expiration of the Liberal-NDP Accord in 1987, the Liberals called another provincial election, and won the second-largest majority government in Ontario's history, taking 95 seats out of 130, at the expense of the NDP and the Progressive Conservatives who dropped to third place in the legislature.

After the expiration of the NSF agreement, vBNS largely transitioned to providing service to the government.

After 1994, the danger of trials being cancelled due to the expiration of statutory terms was becoming very real.

After the expiration of their contract with Moseley, the Ventures returned to playing mainly Fender guitars.

After the expiration date, the domain status often passes through several management phases, often for a period of months ; usually it does not simply become generally available.

After the expiration of this two-month period, any appointments were to be made by the President, Council and existing Fellows.

After Ulmanis has informed the President at 1 a. m. on May 16 that the Saeima has been dissolved and the Constitution suspended, the latter made no protest and continued to exercise his duties until the expiration of his term, albeit without any real power.

After expiration of Ozoliņš ' Avalanche deal, he signed a five-year contract with Carolina worth more than $ 25 million.

After the expiration of his term as attorney general, he was again elected to the U. S. Senate, where he urged compromise on the issue of slavery to prevent the breakup of the United States.

After the expiration of his term, Cooper took over the " Dean Acheson chair " at the prestigious Washington D. C. law firm of Covington & Burling.

After the expiration of Root's contract with William Hall & Son in 1855, Crosby-Root songs were published by other publishers, including Six Songs by Wurzel published in 1855 by S. Brainard's Sons of Cleveland, Ohio, after being rejected by Nathan Richardson of Russell & Richardson of Boston.

After the expiration of his term, Price became the state's Bank Commissioner from 1857 to 1861.

After leaving the Interior Department at the expiration of Bush ’ s term, Lujan characterized his job as one of constant tensions.

After the expiration of his governorship, two of Alabama's United States Attorneys began a criminal investigation against him on accusations of corruption while in office.

After Goforth resigned before the expiration of his term, local Democrats selected Keever to be appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy.

After expiration of this period, the application will work only with a regular license key.

After just nine games and two goals Bridges returned to Hull after the expiration of his six-month loan deal.

After losing a large portion of the market to other companies, Sony's latest attempt to revive the Walkman brand involved a series of music-centred mobile phones marketed under the former Sony Ericsson brand.

Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer and MXF4Mac, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, Front Porch Digital, Harris, mxfSPEEDRAIL, Omneon, Quantel, Rhozet, Sony Vegas Pro, Sorenson Squeeze Telestream FlipFactory, Thomson Grass Valley GrassValley EDIUS and K2.

After this version was featured in a 2005 advertisement for Sony's Bravia brand of televisions, it was released as a single in January 2006.

After considerable time and effort in the early and mid-2000s, Sony's FED efforts started winding down in 2009 as LCD became the dominant technology.

After a contractual dispute with the developer of the first two games in the series, SingleTrac, Twisted Metal development duties were handed over to Sony's in-house development team, 989 Studios.

After Warner Bros. acquired Lorimar in 1993, Sony purchased the MGM Studios from Warner Bros. Sony's newly acquired Columbia Pictures had been sharing with Warner Bros. their studio lot in Burbank in a partnership called the Burbank Studios beginning in 1972.

After his patent was rejected by the Telegraph Administration, Mimault modified his device to incorporate features from the Meyer telegraph and obtained a new patent which was also rejected.

After her husband's death, Marion Armstrong became extraordinarily wealthy as a result of successful FM patent litigation against RCA and other companies.

After DuPont lost out to Roche on that sale, the company unsuccessfully disputed Mullis's patent on the alleged grounds that PCR had been previously described in 1971.

After the invention of malted barley roasted until black to impart a darker colour and distinct burnt taste to the beer in 1817, Irish brewers dropped the use of brown malt, using patent malt and pale malt only, while English brewers continued using some brown malt, giving a difference in style between English and Irish porters.

After the patent was granted in 1916, the technology was immediately commercially applied to akoya pearl oysters in Japan in 1916.

After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so-called tri-cone guitar on April 9, 1927.

After World War II, military frogmen of all countries continued to use rebreathers ( since they do not make bubbles and thus are not visible from the surface ) and Air Liquide started selling commercially the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator as of 1946 under the name of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan or CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and 45 for a new 1945 patent ).

After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison and not Emile Berliner was the inventor of the carbon microphone.

After hearing about the rigid airship constructed by David Schwarz and witnessing its trial flight at the Tempelhof Airfield near Berlin on 3 November 1897, he proceeded to buy the patent rights from the widow of the prematurely deceased Schwarz, in order to allow Carl Berg to supply aluminium.

* January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

After litigation, a court found for Prodigy, ruling that British Telecom's patent did not cover web hyperlinks.

After a long legal battle, Edison emerged the victor, and the Berliner patent was ruled invalid by both American and British courts.

After concluding patent disputes over generic ribavirin availability in 2003, Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC in conjunction with Par Pharmaceutical, was approved in 2005 to market ribavirin as Ribosphere capsules.

After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.

After 1884, several companies and entrepreneurs bought or inherited the patent and produced it until 1965.

After the war, in 1946, both men founded La Spirotechnique ( as a division of Air Liquide ) in order to mass produce and sell their invention, this time under a new 1945 patent, and known as CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and " 45 " for 1945 ).

After his death in 1715 Savery's patent and Act of Parliament became vested in a company, The Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire.

After the war, in 1920, Armstrong sold the patent for the superheterodyne to Westinghouse, who subsequently sold it to RCA.

After a patent for the land, located on a buffalo trail, was obtained in 1872, the first settlers lived in tents.

After receiving a patent, Froelich started up the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, investing all of his assets, which by 1895, all would be lost and his business resigned to become a failure.