Fearing that there was a risk that the battle would end with the invention being declared unpatentable due to Heaviside's prior publication, they decided to desist from the challenge and buy an option on Pupin's patent for a yearly fee so that AT & T would control both patents.

In a note posted on the Free Software Foundation's news website in June 2009, Richard Stallman warned that he believes " Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C # implementations underground some day using software patents " and recommended that developers avoid taking what he described as the " gratuitous risk " associated with " depend on the free C # implementations ", including Portable. NET.

The Americans saw him as a security risk, and objected to the French atomic patents claimed by the Paris Group ( in association with ICI ).

Numerous similar patents followed but they all bore the same disadvantage – that they could not be used at higher speeds for risk of damage to the mechanism – and they came to nothing.

Since Philips did and still does own a substantial patent-portfolio, product management was not allowed to risk signing away rights on a substantial number of important patents.

With the adoption of software patents in some countries, e. g. in the United States in the 1990s, clone games are at far greater legal risk.

This would possibly have far-reaching consequences for the EU economy as the risk of criminal prosecution for violating patents when new products or new functions are included is great.

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

They were reluctant to appoint sheriffs to protect the property, thus running the risk of creating disturbances such as that on the Vermejo, and yet the cowboys protested that they got no salary for arresting cattle thieves and running the risk of being shot.

She would have been taking more than a fair risk of being seen and recognized during her travels.

An example would be the systems being put in place for senior people such as fall detectors, thermometers ( for hypothermia risk ), flooding and unlit gas sensors ( for people with mild dementia ).

Arachnophobes will spare no effort to make sure that their whereabouts are spider-free, hence they would have had a reduced risk of being bitten in ancestral environments.

He did, however, understand that there is a risk over using leech, and advised patients that leech need to be cleaned before being used and that the dirt or dust " clinging to a leech should be wiped off " before application.

Another risk occurs if the items being bought and sold are not identical and the arbitrage is conducted under the assumption that the prices of the items are correlated or predictable ; this is more narrowly referred to as a convergence trade.

People crossing the so-called " death strip " on the eastern side were at risk of being shot.

Whorf argued that paying attention to how other physical phenomena are described in the study of linguistics could make valuable contributions to science by pointing out the ways in which certain assumptions about reality are implicit in the structure of language itself, and how language guides the attention of speakers towards certain phenomena in the world which risk becoming overemphasized while leaving other phenomena at risk of being overlooked.

Since inside pitching is a legitimate tactic in baseball, courts have recognized that being hit by a pitch is an inherent risk of the game, so that players cannot sue for any resulting injuries.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

In the court's words: " For better or worse, being intentionally thrown at is a fundamental part and inherent risk of the sport of baseball.

In de facto residence definitions this would not be a problem but in de jure definitions individuals risk being recorded on more than one form leading to double counting.

An economic dependence on commodities, such as diamond s being mined by these children in Sierra Leone, is correlated with an increased risk of civil war.

For example, a Bahá ' í who refuses to follow guidance on treatment of Covenant-breakers is at risk of being named one.

Not wanting to risk being taken hostage by one side or the other, Titus abandoned the journey to Rome and rejoined his father in Judaea.

By varying the snap count, a quarterback forces the defensive players to react to the movement of the offensive players, or risk being called for an offsides or encroachment penalty.

* Underlying value independent of the risk being undertaken

John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players ... but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies.

As the impact between steel hammer heads and the objects being hit can, and does, create sparks, which in some industries such as underground coal mining with methane gas, or in other hazardous environments containing flammable gases and vapours, can be dangerous and risk igniting the gases.

Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.

Personality theorists argue that by being a creator of something one is inherently at risk and vulnerable for having their ideas and designs stolen and / or altered.

The insured entities are therefore protected from risk for a fee, with the fee being dependent upon the frequency and severity of the event occurring.

The Fund provides financial assistance to journalists and their families whose lives are at risk or whose freedom of expression has been seriously infringed.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.

Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.

In the case of a scrutiny going to trial, there was the risk for the former officeholder of suffering severe penalties.

After widespread adoption of the COX-2 inhibitors, it was discovered that most of the drugs in this class increased the risk of cardiovascular events by 40 % on average.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

In the 1980s, risk arbitrage was common.

One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

Their television appearance was a calculated risk, but Clinton regained several delegates.

Every patient was treated as if infected and therefore precautions were taken to minimize risk.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

As is discussed below, the reason for the delay was probably simply that neither the Athenians nor the Persians were willing to risk battle initially.

Initially, Emperor Wilhelm II told the Archduke Franz Ferdinand that Germany was ready to support Austria in all circumstances — even at the risk of a world war, but the Austro-Hungarians hesitated.

Making a comedy about Hitler was seen as highly controversial, but Chaplin's financial independence allowed him to take the risk.

The risk of infection via cadaveric HGH in the US ceased when the medication was withdrawn in 1985.