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??

The suit, as we have seen, came before the courts when patent attorneys, inventors, and laymen were making mounting demands for reforms in the American patent system.

`` It is a much easier course to agree to let one another alone so far as ordinary patents are concerned '', said a trade authority, `` than to continue the costly effort of straightening the tangle in the courts or seeking to reform the patent system, which appears to be getting into deeper confusion every day ''.

* 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.

In the patent application it is described as an " X-Y position indicator for a display system ".

In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.

In particular, the regenerative circuit, which Armstrong patented in 1914 as a " wireless receiving system ," was subsequently patented by Lee De Forest in 1916 ; De Forest then sold the rights to his patent to AT & T.

The Brazilian Franchise Law ( Law No. 8955 of December 15, 1994 ) defines the franchise as a system in which the franchisor licenses the franchisee, for a payment, the right to use a trademark / patent along with the right to distribute products or services on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis.

These were the predecessors of the modern patent and trademark system.

Innovation and invention in 19th century America has been said to be attributed to the development of the patent system.

* 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.

Edison sued to gain control of the patent ; however, after a federal court upheld the validity of the patent in 1907, Edison began negotiation with Biograph in May 1908 to reorganize the Edison licensing system.

More directly, it is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was a royal decree granting exclusive rights to a person, predating the modern patent system.

In 1897, Tesla applied for two key United States radio patents,, first radio system patent, and.

In 1934 the Frenchman Émile Girardeau stated he was building an obstacle-locating radio apparatus " conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla " and obtained a patent for a working system, a part of which was installed on the Normandie liner in 1935.

Zubrin is the co-inventor on a U. S. design patent and a U. S. utility patent on a hybrid rocket / airplane, and on a U. S. utility patent on an oxygen supply system ( see links below ).

The O ' Reilly v. Morse case has become known among patent lawyers because the Supreme Court explicitly denied Morse's claim for any future application of his code system.

His experiments with television ( known as telectroescopía at first ) began in 1931 and led to a patent for the " trichromatic field sequential system " color television in 1940 ,.

Edward Davy demonstrated his telegraph system in Regent's Park in 1837 and was granted a patent on 4 July 1838.

McKee and Ross also applied for and were granted two patents, one in 1984 for a basic adjustable binding system and the other in 1985 for a patent for their adjustable plate type foot strap system.

Not least among the members of the patent bar who echoed this powerful indictment were those who had participated in the Selden suit.

Microsoft applied C # and CLI under the Community Promise, so anyone can safely implement those standards without fearing a patent lawsuit.

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Distributing compiled binaries of LAME, its libraries, or programs that derive from LAME in countries that recognize those patents may be patent infringing.

Though the monarch retains all executive, legislative, and judicial power in and over Canada, the governor general is permitted to exercise most of this, including the Royal Prerogative, in the sovereign's name ; some as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867, and some through various letters patent issued over the decades, particularly those from 1947 that constitute the Office of Governor General of Canada ; they state: " And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor General, with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Canada.

Matters became worse when Bell Labs lawyers found that some of Shockley's own writings on the transistor were close enough to those of an earlier 1925 patent by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld that they thought it best that his name be left off the patent application.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's 1879 design patent on the Statue of Liberty helped fund the famous statue because it covered small replicas, including those sold as souvenirs.

Two different 1953 patent applications give " Gray code " as an alternative name for the " reflected binary code "; one of those also lists " minimum error code " and " cyclic permutation code " among the names.

Recently the patent assets of these failed startup companies are being purchased by what are derogatorily known as " Patent trolls " who then take the patents from the companies and assert those patents against companies that might be infringing the technology covered by the patent.

The drawings from Woodward's 1876 United States patent are almost identical to those that appeared in Woodward and Evan's 1874 Canadian patent.

At first, he was selling individual patent licences for £ 20 each, but later he lowered the fee to £ 4 and waived the payment for those who wished to use the process only as amateurs.

Following their acquisition of the patent, all English and Welsh lightvessels were maintained by Trinity House, with the exception of the four vessels in the approaches to the River Mersey, which were maintained by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board until 1973, and those in the Humber Estuary, which were the responsibility of the Humber Conservancy Board.

But this continued not long, for after Morton was sent for England, shortly after came over that worthy gentleman, Mr. John Indecott, who brought a patent under ye broad seall, for ye governmente of ye Massachusets, who visiting those parts caused ye May-polle to be cutt downe, and rebuked them for their profannes, and admonished them to looke ther should be better walking ; so they now, or others, changed ye name of their place againe, and called it Mounte-Dagon.

A straightforward construction of those letters patent leads to the conclusion that the Duke of Windsor reverted to Royal Highness on his abdication, since the language of the Instrument and Act of Abdication can only be construed to mean that he relinquished the throne, but not his status as a Sovereign's son.

During this time, Ernest G. Rice invented his own design for pantyhose ( similar to those worn today ), and in 1956 he submitted a patent titled " Combination Stockings and Panty ".

With little understanding of the causes and mechanisms of illnesses, widely marketed " cures " ( as opposed to locally produced and locally used remedies ), often referred to as patent medicines, first came to prominence during the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain and the British colonies, including those in North America.

Of those, 6, 242 were patent examiners ( almost all of whom were assigned to examine utility patents ; only 99 were assigned to examine design patents ) and 388 were trademark examining attorneys ; the rest are support staff.

Attorneys may additionally qualify as Notaries and Conveyancers, via the Conveyancing and Notarial Practice Examinations ; those with technical or scientific training may further qualify as patent attorneys – see Patent attorney: South Africa.

The historical alto instruments by Sax that did survive all have inner diameters that are those Sax described in his saxotromba patent.

Licensor warrants that the copyright in and to the Original Work and the patent rights granted herein by Licensor are owned by the Licensor or are sublicensed to You under the terms of this License with the permission of the contributor ( s ) of those copyrights and patent rights.

Though the company enjoyed high levels of public awareness and generally positive attention from industry press, it ran into fierce competition, first from Microsoft ( whose Pen Services for Windows were later the subject of an FTC investigation and patent violation suits by GO ), and later from Apple's Newton project, and others.

Arthur Krebs proposed placing the front axle of a car at a positive caster angle in his UK patent of 1896, entitled Improvements in mechanically propelled vehicles, stating it was intended " To ensure stability of direction by means of a special arrangement of fore-carriage, that is to say, to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no tendency to keep them in any other direction, or after a temporary effort has caused them to diverge from said parallelism.

As an unextended SPC only has a positive term if more than 5 years have elapsed between patent filing and MA issuance, this leads to the following two questions.

In this event, a positive ( and non-zero ) SPC term is obtained ( after extension ) if the time from patent filing to MA issuance is more than 4. 5 years.

The European Patent Convention does not provide any positive guidance on what should be considered an invention for the purposes of patent law.

Since the 1990s, patent pools have been viewed by U. S. regulatory authorities in a positive light.