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patent and clearly
After the expiration of the first ( 1978 ) arithmetic coding patent, range encoding appeared to clearly be free of patent encumbrances.
Although the simple expansion concept diverged from Mallet's original patent, the locomotives were clearly a continuation of the concept and were conveniently still referred to as " Mallet " locomotives.
That is particularly relevant when the value of the patent is not clearly known before the adoption of the standard.
The Court ruled, "… a process patent in the chemical field, which has not been developed and pointed to the degree of specific utility, creates a monopoly of knowledge which should be granted only if clearly commanded by the statute.
The expression " software patent " itself has not been clearly defined.
The requirement to clearly define the metes and bounds of a claim is found in United States patent law at least at 35 U. S. C.
In his patent, Durand clearly mentions that the idea of the invention was communicated to him more than a year ago by a friend abroad.
They found that the wording in the narrowed claims was too vague to clearly identify exactly what Smucker's is trying to patent.
Although it was without knowledge of chaos theory that Herbert Sellner invented the ride, in his patent text he clearly demonstrates an appreciation of chaos -- " A further object is to provide amusement apparatus wherein the riders will be moved in general through an orbit and will unexpectedly swing, snap from side to side or rotate without in any way being able to figure what movement may next take place in the car.
The City of Inverness, for which letters patent were granted in 2001, may be supposed to lie within the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency, but this city lacks clearly defined boundaries.
Here, Justice Kennedy said, the design was clearly functional, and the plaintiff could not carry the burden of proving otherwise because the very characteristic that is sought to be protected by trademark is the one whose functionality was previously sought to be covered by patent.

patent and does
What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??
* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
The LAME developers state that, since their code is only released in source code form, it should only be considered as an educational description of an MP3 encoder, and thus does not infringe any patent by itself when released as source code only.
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.
While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.
The law of protection of confidential information effectively allows a perpetual monopoly in secret information-it does not expire as would a patent.
Compared to patents, the advantages of trade secrets are that a trade secret is not limited in time ( it " continues indefinitely as long as the secret is not revealed to the public ", whereas a patent is only in force for a specified time, after which others may freely copy the invention ), a trade secret does not imply any registration costs, has an immediate effect, does not require compliance with any formalities, and does not imply any disclosure of the invention to the public.
In later patent litigation, Judge Augustus Hand ruled that Thurman " does not appear to have attempted to design a vacuum cleaner, or to have understood the process of vacuum cleaning ".
* 1833 – Walter Hunt invents the lockstitch sewing machine but, dissatisfied with its function, does not patent it.
In the United States the length of this temporary monopoly is 20 years from the date the application for patent was filed, though the monopoly does not actually begin until the application has matured into a patent.
The United States usually does not have a separate bar examination for federal practice ( except with respect to patent practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office ).
" In 1981, the Supreme Court stated that " a claim drawn to subject matter otherwise statutory does not become nonstatutory simply because it uses a mathematical formula, computer program, or digital computer " and a claim is patentable if it contains " a mathematical formula implements or applies the formula in a structure or process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the patent laws were designed to protect ".
As a result, even if the indigenous medical knowledge is taken as prior art, that knowledge does not by itself make the active chemical compound " obvious ," which is the standard applied under patent law.
" The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) has observed that " a patent on a gene covers the isolated and purified gene but does not cover the gene as it occurs in nature ".
Laroche's side argued that the patent was invalid, as a similar process was invented earlier by Joseph Reade, and that using the collodion process does not infringe the calotype patent anyway, because of significant differences between the two processes.
They argue that letters patent establishing the fief does not mention the smaller island.
Is determined to make one more vigorous effort, to sell his patent right for some of his modern inventions later singles out the vapor engine, and if he does not now succeed, he will give the matter up, and return to Orford, to spend his days in quiet .” Morey did not find a buyer, and as he was then in his late 60s, it made sense to stop traveling up and down the east coast and call it quits.
* Omnibus claim, a patent claim which does not explicitly state any technical features of the product or process
The OSL attempts to counteract that by creating a pool of software which a user can use if that user does not harm it by attacking it with a patent lawsuit.
Thus letters patent does not equate to an open letter but rather to any form of document, deed, contract, letter, despatch, edict, decree, epistle etc.

patent and describe
The overview given above may describe a modern version of the Miller cycle but it differs in some respects from the 1957 patent.
Van Dusen's American patent of 1867 was the first to describe a pneumatic striker operated by a roll.
The mechanics in the " 138 patent " describe an arcade cabinet similar to Sega's previous arcade game Harley-Davidson & L. A. Riders ( 1997 ), but also describe the arrow navigation system and pedestrian avoidance aspects that were used in Crazy Taxi.
According to the Patent Office of the United Kingdom, " In the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain, the law officers of the Crown established as a condition of patent that the inventor must in writing describe the invention and the manner in which it works.
Bell's patent was also disputed in 1888 by attorney Lysander Hill who accused Wilber of allowing Bell or his lawyer Pollok to add a handwritten margin note of seven sentences to Bell's application that describe an alternate design similar to Gray's liquid microphone design.
* 1871: Antonio Meucci files a patent caveat ( a statement of intention to patent ) for a Sound Telegraph, but it does not describe an electromagnetic telephone.
Since the 1840s, the expression " patent pirate " has been used as a pejorative term to describe those that infringe a patent and refuse to acknowledge the priority of the inventor.
Ironically, the term " pirate " has also been used to describe patent owners that vigorously enforce their patents.
Different patents and published patent applications may use different words to describe the same concepts and thus patents that cover different aspects of the invention may not show up in a search.
However, by the 18th and 19th centuries, this had come to be seen as unduly limiting on the scope of protection afforded a patent-holder, especially as patent applicants are often required to describe new technology for which an adequate vocabulary has not yet been developed.
The patent does not describe this tone remote but confirms the use of the phrase to describe this system of signaling.
For example, BMC owns a patent for " GUI interpretation technology for client / server environment " developed by software engineers David T. Sulcer, Lawrence M. Ackner, and Donna S. Lowe-Cleveland which involves complex signals processing ; patent attorneys trying to describe this process wrote: " receiving a message from a remote device, the message comprising either a definition, a state change, a command or some combination thereof ; processing the definition ( if any ) before the state change ( if any ); and processing the state change ( if any ) before processing the command ( if any ).
In patent law, an application provides background and disclosure necessary to describe an invention, but it is the claims that define the protected aspects.
As a deed might describe a parcel of land, a patent claim carves out systems, methods, etc.
" Non-obviousness " is the term used in US patent law to describe one of the requirements that an invention must meet to qualify for patentability, codified in 35 U. S. C.
Instead, his first three letters describe Wood as the mastermind behind the patent.
The term " patent troll " was used as early as 1993 to describe companies that file aggressive patent lawsuits.

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