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A patent covering Germany can be obtained through four different routes: through the direct filing of a national patent application with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) (direct national route), through the filing of a European patent application (EPO route), or through the filing of an international application under the Patent Cooperation ...
The Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (Commission proposal COM(2002) 92), [1] procedure number 2002/0047 (COD) [2] was a proposal for a European Union (EU) directive aiming to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the granting of ...
European Patent Office, Examination of computer-implemented inventions at the European Patent Office with particular attention to computer-implemented business methods, Official Journal EPO, 11/2007, pp 594–600. Philip Leith, Software and Patents in Europe, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2007, ISBN 9780521868396, pp. 212
When patent litigation is involved (which in year 1999 happened in about 1,600 cases compared to 153,000 patents issued in the same year [98]), costs increase significantly: although 95% of patent litigation cases are settled out of court, [99] those that reach the courts have legal costs on the order of a million dollars per case, not ...
The jury, in Delaware, agreed with Apple that previous iterations of Masimo's W1 and Freedom watches and chargers willfully violated Apple's patent rights in smartwatch designs.
Patents, also referred to as patents for invention, are the most widespread means of protecting technical inventions. The patent system is designed to contribute to the promotion of innovation and the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of inventors, users of inventions and the general public. Once a patent is ...
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KIFI-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market as an affiliate of ABC, CBS, The CW Plus, and Telemundo. The station is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), which provides certain services to Idaho Falls–based KIDK (channel 3) under a shared ...