* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

The NIH later withdrew the patent applications, following public outcry.

Kratt Company, who originally started out making pitch pipes, and later secured the patent for combs made of plastic in 1952.

All of these required much experimentation, but he soon had enough success to patent the process a year later.

The Supreme Court of the United States later invalidated the patent because of an improper disclaimer and, additionally, maintained the technology in the patent was known art when filed.

Brewster later believed he would make money from this popular invention ; however, a fault in his patent application allowed others to copy his invention.

He filed the first patent for an MRI machine, U. S. patent # 3, 789, 832 on March 17, 1972, which was later issued to him on February 5, 1974.

In 1035 Magdeburg received a patent giving the city the right to hold trade exhibitions and conventions, which form the basis of the later family of city laws known as the Magdeburg rights.

He obtained a patent for his detection device in April 1904 and later a patent for a related amendment for determining the distance to the ship.

Almon Brown Strowger filed the first patent for a rotary dial, U. S. patent # 486, 909, on December 21, 1891, that was later issued to him on November 29, 1892.

In 1984 Inge Telnaes received a patent for a device titled, " Electronic Gaming Device Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the Reel Stop Positions " ( US Patent 4448419 ), which states: “ It is important to make a machine that is perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it actually has within the legal limitations that games of chance must operate .” The patent was later bought by International Game Technology and has since expired.

In their joint 1885 patent applications for novel transformers ( later called Z. B. D.

The patent was later the source of a civil court case between MacLeod, the Army, and Aerojet who proceeded to develop the design further.

Three weeks later, Goodyear was awarded a patent in the United States.

Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to four ironmasters, for a total of £ 27, 000, but the licensees failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised — it was " rotten hot and rotten cold ", according to his friend, William Clay — and he later bought them back for £ 32, 500.

Vasilantone would later file for patent on his invention in 1967 granted number 3, 427, 964 on February 18, 1969.

The patent was later granted.

AOL later acquired Mirabilis, the authors of ICQ ; a few years later ICQ ( now owned by AOL ) was awarded two patents for instant messaging by the U. S. patent office.

Abeyance can be used in cases where parties are interested in temporarily settling litigation while still holding the right to seek relief later if necessary.

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

Pearson v. Chung, the case of a Washington, D. C. judge, Roy Pearson, who sued a dry cleaning business for $ 67 million ( later lowered to $ 54 million ), has been cited as an example of frivolous litigation.

As part of the related business negotiations, Microsoft had licensed certain aspects of the Macintosh user interface from Apple ; in later litigation, a district court summarized these aspects as " screen displays ".

The individuals responsible for starting the fire were later identified, and are the subject of ongoing civil and criminal litigation.

Politics also can include barratry where one opponent files frivolous litigation against the other, specifically to injure the opponent's reputation regardless that the case is groundless and may later be dismissed.

Such an order may later be overturned or vacated during the litigation, or it may be a final order and judgment only subject to appeal.

The agreement will later cause continuous litigation problems with Hendrix and other record labels.

It later transpired that the allegation related to her brother, John Brown, who had been accused in 2008, in the course of litigation in the US among family members, of having sexually abused his niece.

In 1774 he sold his share in the great playhouse, which had involved him in much litigation with his partners, to Leake ; and three years later he purchased of Samuel Foote, then broken in health and spirits, the little theatre in the Haymarket.

After litigation the estate passed to a relative, Mr Langham Christie, but he later had to pay £ 50, 000 to persuade another relative to withdraw a rival claim.

The Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa whose Yojimbo ( The Bodyguard ) was the inspiration ( and later, litigation ) behind a Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

After patent litigation, that company was later merged with General Bakelite and a third firm to form Bakelite Corporation in 1922.

The original human skull and bones went missing later in the litigation and were never offered into evidence.

After 20 years of litigation and political maneuvering, community groups and state and local officials in 1991 compromised and set much of the state-purchased right of way aside as parkland, later named Freedom Park.

Her father, Dr. William Ma was a civil engineer who later specialized in construction claims and litigation before he retired.

The released papers were later to become the subject of threatened litigation, and their release prompted eventual rule changes that allowed for document reclassification.

Fortunately his reply was kept, as it was later used to prevent litigation.

A highly controversial ad campaign introduced at the CBA convention in 2002 created litigation, settled later.

Previously, Parker worked as a litigation partner in the law firm Anderson Lloyd Caudwell, and later as a businessman.

The motion picture industry became aware of the existence of DeCSS later that same month, and began litigation on a number of fronts.

She was a law clerk to Madam Justice Claire L ' Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada from 1993 to 1994, and later had a practice in civil and commercial litigation.

Scruggs was later convicted in federal court of crimes committed during the post-Katrina litigation.

This condition was not observed, and gave rise to litigation at a later date.