Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.

Many of Armstrong's inventions were ultimately claimed by others in patent lawsuits.

Many NDAs are unilateral, or one-way agreements, where one party wants to disclose certain information to another party but needs the information to remain secret for some reason, perhaps due to secrecy requirements required to satisfy patent laws or to make sure that the other party does not take and use the disclosed information without compensating the discloser.

Many patent medicines, cosmetics, and household cleaning supplies have been also aimed at hoodoo practitioners and have found dual usage as conventional and spiritual remedies ; examples include Four Thieves Vinegar, Florida Water, and Red Devil Lye.

Many definitions of the term " standard " permit patent holders to impose " reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing " royalty fees and other licensing terms on implementers and / or users of the standard.

Many of these sources also claim that the patent rights for Morgan's designs were sold at about that time to General Electric ( GE ) for $ 40, 000.

Radu Florescu documented on page 193 of his book, " Dracula: Prince of Many Faces " that the Holy Roman Emperour Ferdinand I granted a patent of nobility January 20, 1535 to Ladislas Dracula and his brother John, affirming their direct descent from Vlad and making specific mention of " the ancient insignia of Ladislas's family " having been the same as that of the Bathory family -- i. e., gules ( red ) a sword covering three wolf teeth.

Radu Florescu documented on page 193 of his book, " Dracula: Prince of Many Faces " that the Holy Roman Emperour Ferdinand I granted Ladislas Dracula and his brother John recognition as Dracula's direct descendants: based on their documentation, the Emperour granted them letters patent ( a patent of nobility ) on January 20, 1535 in which their descent is described and also specific mention is made in the patent of " the ancient insignia of Ladislas's family " as being the same as that of the Bathory family -- i. e., gules ( red ) a sword covering three wolf teeth.

Many national and regional patent offices provide procedures for reconsidering whether or not a given patent is valid after grant.

( Many patent owners file patents to cover seemingly trivial concepts without any intention of enforcing the patents, but rather to use as part of a larger patent portfolio in their own defense against potential future patent lawsuits.

With the America Invents Act of 2011, which was signed by President Obama on September 16, 2011 The law will switch U. S. right to the patent from the present " first-to-invent " system to a " first-to-file " system for patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013 Many legal scholars have commented that such a change would require a constitutional amendment.

Many intellectual property experts and members of the general public view this patent as an example of the patent office's inability to properly examine patent applications.

Many patent law systems provide for the granting of compulsory licenses in a variety of situations.

Many different names in different languages such as Coeur croisé in French, Zauberkreuz in German, Cruzado Magico in Spanish, now with many imitators appeared as the patent expired.

Many foreign patent regimes, on the other hand, protect prior user rights, which are often seen as assisting small entities that may lack the sophistication or resources to pursue patent protection.

Many of these shows feature camping, a car show called a " show ' n ' shine ", drag racing, parts swap meet, raffles, burnout contests, and other events.

Many tourists enjoy Millwood Lake and Millwood State Park, known for their trophy fishing contests, camping sites, and sports facilities, such as a country club, golf course, and swimming pool.

Many levels also meet throughout the year in preliminary or final CDE contests hosted at schools in the division the can be CDEs or just banquets, barbecues, conventions, etc.

Many websites and companies feature contests for case modders, awarding prizes and accolades to the winners.

Many enter daily contests, and some participate in skits in the Masquerade show, one of the largest convention events.

Many of the staff felt there was too much focus on circulation at the expense of the paper's editorial standards, for example the new push for puzzle contests such as Tangle Town, which was given credit for a rise in weekday circulation of 60, 000 to bring the total to over 400, 000.

Many Jacksonians held the view that rotating political appointees in and out of office was not only the right but also the duty of winners in political contests.

Many clubs and contests can be found in France, Brazil, Australia.

Many stores, radio stations, and other groups still wish to hold contests to encourage more purchases or increase consumer interest.

Many DX-peditions are organized around various radio contests that happen throughout the year.

Many hālau hula ( schools ), including some from the U. S. mainland and Japan, attend the festival each year to participate in the festival exhibitions and competitions, which are considered the most prestigious of all hula contests.

Many of Hartwick ’ s activities are held at Pine Lake, including the Eco-Art Festival, Pine Lake Day, potluck dinners, Solstice parties, the Bread and Puppet Theatre, contra dances, the Awakening freshmen pre-orientation program, the annual chili cook-off, the local food cook-off, photo contests and the Conversations at the Lake discussion series.

Many grooms to be have instead been treated to camping trips with friends, fishing trips, pizza contests, baseball games, video games, poker, barbecuing, and other activities.

Many geek and Internet culture businesses, such as ThinkGeek and CafePress, also honor the holiday with special product offerings and contests.

Many professional contests also employ a series of judges, whose role is to enforce the contest rules and warn eaters about infractions.

Many of Wilby's works are written especially to be used as test pieces in brass band contests all over the world.

Many of the contestants from these contests have gone on to hosting television shows on Fairchild TV and some earn fame in Asia.

Many students from this municipality and even in the other municipalities of Masbate represent their region in contests about geography, history and social sciences.

Many HF contests reward stations with a new multiplier for contacts with stations in each country-often based on the " entities " listed on the DXCC country list maintained by the American Radio Relay League (" ARRL ").

Many contests also offer team or club competitions in which the scores of multiple radio stations are combined and ranked.

Many popular contests are offered on two separate weekends, one for CW and one for telephony, with all the same rules.

Many contests employ a concept of " off time " in which a station may operate only a portion of the available time.

Many of these DX contests have been held annually for fifty years or more, and have devoted followings.

Many of the heritage contests and Rural Americana Olde Tyme performances at the Fair take place in Pioneer Hall, also located in Heritage Village.

Many of its sojourners were devoted to seclusion and quiet, and lived there to the end of their days.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

Many aspects of civilization were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find expression, nor could the simple economic and social foundations of this world support a lofty structure.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.

Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;

Many anthropologists ( students and teachers ) were active in the antiwar movement.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many batting records were set in this period.

Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.

Many peasant parties were also nationalist parties, because peasants often worked their land for the benefit of landlords of different ethnicity.

Many remarkable insects and spiders were recently discovered in the amber of Jordan including the oldest zorapterans, clerid beetles, umenocoleid roaches, and achiliid planthoppers.

Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.

Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

Many of these were arrested in Ireland, and some in Great Britain.

Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.