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Chester Carlson (1906–1968); William Percy Carpmael (1853–1936), founder and first president of the rugby union Barbarian Football Club; Yardley Chittick (1900–2008); Dennis Crouch (born 1975), professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and author of the widely read patent law blog Patently-O
The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.
A commentator asserted that an example illustrating the proposition that satisfying the machine-or-transformation test is not a sufficient condition for patent-eligibility occurs in U.S. Pat. No. 6,701,872. [31] This patent covers a method and apparatus (machine) for entertaining a cat by using a moving laser beam (relatively high technology).
In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d 1385 (Fed. Cir. 2008), was an en banc decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on the patenting of method claims, particularly business methods.
As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the claimed invention or discovery in biology for a limited period of time - for patents filed after 1998, 20 years from the filing date.
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...
He sued for infringement of patent rights but lost in court. [6] Tennant took the case to the Crown Court in 1802 but lost again. [6] In the intervening period, Tennant came up with a new process, that was granted a patent No. 2312 on 30 April 1799 [7] for a new bleaching powder (calcium hypochlorite). At the time, Tennant decided to open a new ...
Edward H. Phillips v. AWH Corporation, Hopeman Brothers, Inc., and Lofton Corporation : Decided: July 12 2005: Citations: 415 F.3d 1303; 75 U.S.P.Q.2d 1321: Holding; The most important source in the evidentiary hierarchy of claim construction is the ordinary meaning of the language of the claims themselves and other intrinsic sources like the ...