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The jury found that Samsung had infringed upon Apple's patents.

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The tungsten mine, a few patents, a dozen small corporations that formed one organisation with Mundson at the head.

You saw the patents were German.

Three years ago, when Argentina was poised to declare war against us, we allowed Mundson to buy our patents.

All we want from you are the patents and the signed agreements.

He therefore used his huge wealth, to buy dangerous patents.

Yes, we must know what she intends to do with the patents collection.

I'll buy all the patents, the whole lot!

What patents?

The widow has all the patents, we know it.

Francis, we must have those patents!

They want to get hold of the patents that your husband left you.

And what are those patents?

Well, as long as you own those patents, the fighting won't stop.

I can handle patents, process secrets.

It wasn't a year ago I read somewhere about the new radar patents.

Ah Curer, Curer must buy these pharmaceutical patents, to 30000.

We believe he intends to put Sud-Aero's secret patents up for sale to the highest bidder.

Your mission, Dan, should you decide to accept it, is to stop Lowell before he has a chance to sell the patents, and make sure he does not remain in control of the company.

Will you get the patents?

And the Sud-Aero patents.

Selling those patents would be against the best interests of the United States.

You lied about the patents.

Yes, well, I organised a technical information service, bringing modern industrial techniques to backward planets, making available certain valuable patents to struggling young civilisations throughout the galaxy.

The tungsten mine, a few patents, a dozen or so small corporations joined together to form one organization with Mundson at the head.

You've seen that the patents are German, haven't you? - They were.

We allowed him to buy our patents. Good idea.

Now all we want from you are the patents and the agreements bearing the signatures.

Did you pay royalties to the owners of those patents?

Now, listen, Spock, you may be a wonderful science officer, but believe me, you couldn't sell fake patents to your mother.

I fail to understand why I should care to induce my mother to purchase falsified patents.

Nine patents, six pending.

Years of research, patents, experiments!

We hold patents on a few gadgets we confiscated from out-of-state visitors.

Well, technically, patents don't apply to outer space.

Basic patents.

He's got. what, 20, 30 patents?

News and current affairs

Argentine inventors received just 63 patents in the US in the year 2000, compared with 3,400 patents received by Korean inventors.

In the US, the first profitable textile mills blatantly violated British patents.

A half-dozen northern European countries can compete with the US when it comes to research and development spending and patents granted, but the south and east of Europe lag far behind.

Americans, including farmers, are more accustomed to paying for innovative technologies and products--a disposition reflected in a recent US Supreme Court decision that extended the scope of patents on plants.

Musk, eager to spur rapid development of the vehicles, made history last week by opening Tesla's patents for use by competitors.

Intellectual property law--patents and copyrights--is the clearest example of a government policy designed to stimulate creativity.

The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which launched a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.

The expanding scope of patents increases their value as a tool to promote creativity.

While previously most patentable inventions were produced in laboratories, with business-method patents the rewards for creativity can now motivate all kinds of people throughout a business organization.

Indeed, countries that do not allow business-method patents--even though some of their citizens apply for patents in the US--run the risk that their businesses will lose some of their creative edge.

One area where business-method patents promise to spur innovation is financial markets.

Firms are discovering that their competitors with business-method patents may seek to block them from improving their business strategies.

So we invested in education and science, and today we have the world's highest percentage of scientists and patents per capita.

Of the 25 companies granted the most US patents in 2006, only eight were American; 12 were Japanese.

Patents, trademarks, and competition for resources (people, money, and accolades) seal off information and prevent molecular data from being analyzed and shared.

EU membership strengthens the UK's competitiveness by enabling it to negotiate the best deals on trade, tax rules, patents, money laundering, corruption, and security with China, India, and the rest of the world.

This demand suggests that the US should subsidize the flow of technology to India and China from US firms holding patents, which is highly impractical.

International rules on patents and copyright reflect the ability of pharmaceutical companies and Hollywood - to take just two examples - to get their way.

Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.

But, whatever the merits of the claim that genetic patents benefit research and treatment, that is a practical, rather than a legal, argument.

For example, pharmaceutical companies have insisted that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs - increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.

Support for basic research, and patents to protect successful innovation, may help.

In 2011, for example, the government established a set of ambitious targets for the production of patents.

It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined - second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.

Today's intellectual property regime protects innovators in advanced countries by issuing temporary monopolies, i.e., patents.

In recent years, however, patent law widened enormously with the acceptance, in the United States, Australia, Japan, and Korea, of business-method patents --that is, patents not on a technological process but on a way of doing business.