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1. The first English settlers in North America, however, offered a fifth of all the gold and silver which should be found there to the king, as a motive for granting them their patents
2. In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc
3. Sometimes the best protection you can have for your product, even better than patents
4. She herself had considered it, but wondered if it would make her seem vain, and not the best example to set to those of her patents who were insecure about their looks
5. His hopes, he explained rested in the quick cash he intended to earn by selling the rights of two patents he held and ‘Ed’ represented the investors who wished to buy them: hence tonight’s meeting
6. I sold my patents, alright, only there was little problem with the bank, but at the last minute a friend came through and saved the day
7. The worse is, he had two patents worth millions and signed them over to the company he worked for and now there isn’t so much as a pension to raise their daughter on!”
8. “I don’t understand: he told me about his farm problems, but he also said selling his patents is how he saved it
9. He also had several patents to his credit, but all that meant nothing, he lamented: he was a finished man
10. Once your products are sold and on display out of your control you are powerless unless you have patents or copyrights on every nut and bolt
11. This abundance of resources in the form of products and services becomes immediately available to the cost zero and free from the tribute application or social cost, without the loan need with interests, also free from patents or royalties payment
12. Career choices like investing in real estate (such as a real estate developer, or commercial or residential investor), owning intellectual property rights (patents for inventions, licensing and even copyrights), being a bestselling author, investing in stocks or notes or bonds or being a successful business franchise owner are all ways to earn about a half a million dollars or more and that’s about the amount needed for Americans to earn if they don’t want to struggle from paycheck to paycheck but have enough to save enough and to really thrive financially
13. Most of the remaining factories in Germany had been dismantled and shipped to Russia and most patents and trade marks were practically given away to the victors as reparation
14. These are the basic facts of the recent case of Mitchell v BBC, a case which was transferred from the High Court to the Patents Court
15. In regard to patents, it is often said that there are so many of them that it is
16. An automobile is made up of thousands of different patents, and each year's new
17. Television paved the way for countless hundreds of new patents
18. They were possibly better known for the controversy surrounding their biological patents of genetically modified crops and glyphosate
19. Under the control and influence of the Power Base many industries contained the marketplace by buying patents for new products that might influence their own position and profits
20. Large oil companies owned many patents which improved gas consumption of internal combustion engines, and many that indeed replaced the engine and the need for gasoline entirely
21. ware patents reflect the awkward nature of applying laws and
22. under software patents is subtle but significant
23. Software patents work differently
24. over copyright and the "look and feel" of various technologies, today's Internet companies use patents as a way to stake out
25. For most companies, however, software patents have become a defensive
26. Stallman when it comes to opposing software patents
27. "Without patents, how would you suggest
28. there were even software patents and were paying no attention
29. The only reason to look at patents is to see
30. It will lead you to misunderstand things, because that term generalizes about copyrights, patents, and
31. because Xerox owned all the patents)
32. Thomas Alva Edison came up with hundreds of inventions, including 1,093 patents and still was only the fourth most prolific inventor in history
33. in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
34. Patents, when and why
35. So, from the point of protecting your invention, patents don’t work
36. Also, in the first flush of an inventor's first commercialization of his idea, patents become what
37. All that rushing around and spending investor's money getting patents, and ending up with a nice piece of paper and being able to say "I have
38. We establish principles of business that enable all to participate in our capitalistic system without being thwarted by people of money, and as discussed in Chapter 2 (no holding onto patents, use or lose), one time remuneration for critical discoveries, sharing economies of the big retailers, good ethical behavior, etc
39. A law to implement “use it or lose it patents,” no under selling at a loss to break a competitor, no use of force or threat of force, balancing work force income with capital investment to help balance supply and demand
40. I saw a Ken Burns biography of the development of broadcast radio and (infant) TV last night and how two American engineers, Lee DeForrest and Edwin Howard Armstrong spent 20 years and millions in attorneys fees and court costs (1930s-1950s) to contest patents in court
41. But, on the last morning of the project, the day of the exhibition, when within an hour patents and local dignitaries were expected to view the culmination of the project's work they arrived and discovered to their consternation, every piece of work daubed mercilessly with monstrous stars
42. Use it or lose it patents
43. One time purchase of patents by governments to enable wide spread manufacturing from a variety of sources with equal leverage on the market
44. They should be helping to change patent laws for use it or lose it patents, buying patents for wide scale free use by US manufacturers
45. Shawn has been granted four patents in the areas
46. marketplace, this is really important, patents reinforce credibility in the industry and
47. “We have world-wide patents on everything
48. lawsuits and expired patents
49. It’s costly and time-consuming to apply for, defend and enforce patents and copyrights
50. With FDA approval and monopolizing patents in hand, drug companies are then free to