JAPANESE ARE TOPS IN RECEIVING NEW US PATENTS

The Boston Globe;  April 22, 1990 ;   Associated Press;   316 words ......ranked among the top 10 recipients of US patents in 1989, the Commerce Department said...ended last Sept. 30. The largest number of patents went to Japan's Hitachi Corp., marking...position. Hitachi, which received 1,053 patents, was followed by three other Japanese...

Small but vocal minority insist on patents in News.(Patents section...

Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News;  August 17, 1998 ;   Johnson, Wayne;   620 words ...Earlier this year, we decided to let the Patents section of The News fade into oblivion...the person who had been choosing our patents for many years, Richard Redfern, retired...of Dick's weekly routine to review the Patents edition of the Official Gazette of the...

Ford donates patents to Michigan U. as research aid

University Wire;  September 12, 2000 ;   Rachel Green;   603 words ......With a donation of 23 microprocessing patents from Ford Global Technologies, Inc., the...Company, announced Monday it will donate the patents to the University. Valerie Mayle, technology...venture fund manager for FGTI, said the patents are of more than a monetary value to the...

'Public money wasted on useless patents'

The Hindustan Times;  September 4, 2006 ;     787 words ......CSIR) is squandering public funds on useless patents, allege some of the agency's own scientists...is wasting the taxpayer's money in filing patents in the US on spurious inventions. The patents inflate the scientist's bio-data for awards...

IBM engineer, team granted record number of patents.

AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ);  January 11, 2007 ;     689 words ......Spear just learned that she was awarded 14 patents last year, bringing more than 50 patents to her name, with more pending. Her Northeast...around a marker board, Spear said. All of her patents have more than one name on them. Spear and...

PATENTS WITH PRICE ON THEIR HEADS ONLINE BOUNTY HUNTERS HELP COMPETITORS...

The Boston Globe;  November 22, 2000 ;   Naomi Aoki, Globe Staff;   787 words ...Patents can be as valuable as gold for many high-tech companies...data to support its case. As an ever-increasing number of patents are issued, www.Bounty Quest.com is betting that companies will turn to bounty hunters to sort out the good patents from the bad. The Boston-based Web site, launched last...

Patents pending: the U.S. patent system is more important than ever. It's...

The American (Washington, DC);  January 1, 2008 ;   Barfield, Claude Calfee, John E.;   787 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q Are patents important? A More than ever. The Founders did the...so-called intangible property, much of which comprises patents, along with copyrights and trademarks. Patents are particularly important in the pharmaceutical...

Bay State ranks 5th in share of patents ; But no one is sure why totals...

The Boston Globe;  December 31, 2007 ;   Todd Wallack;   781 words ...Despite a drop in the number of patents awarded nationwide in the past year, Massachusetts...Bureau. The Bay State ranked fifth in patents per resident in fiscal 2007, which ended...Massachusetts claimed 4 percent of all patents awarded to US residents last year, a figure...

Agency to Re-Examine Stem Cell Patents

AP Online;  October 3, 2006 ;     470 words ......Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine patents covering embryonic stem cell discoveries...office could revoke, modify or leave intact patents that cover all embryonic stem cell research...to several years away. Critics say the patents are too restrictive and have been impeding...

UM won 45 new patents in '03

Capital (Annapolis);  February 24, 2004 ;   MELISSA McGRATH Capital News Service;   656 words ......14th among universities for the number of patents it received last year, 11 spots higher...Trademark Office show that Maryland got 45 patents, putting campuses here ahead of prestigious...compared with: It had only 10 percent of the patents of the top- ranked University of California...

U.S. patents: No payoff for many companies?

International Herald Tribune;  July 16, 2007 ;   Michael Fitzgerald;   787 words ......International Herald Tribune 07-16-2007 Patents are supposed to give inventors an incentive...especially in the pharmaceutical business, patents do just that by allowing them to pull...drugs. But for most public companies, patents do not pay off, say a couple of researchers...

Third Wave files suit over patents

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 16, 2000 ;   JOE MANNING;   299 words ...Third Wave files suit over patents Madison firm wants some patents of ID Biomedical Corp. declared invalid By JOE MANNING...Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit seeking to have certain patents held by ID Biomedical Corp., a Vancouver bioengineering...

Verizon Touts and Celebrates 2,500 Patents

Wireless News;  July 9, 2007 ;     551 words ......07-09-2007 Verizon Touts and Celebrates 2,500 Patents WIRELESS NEWS-July 9, 2007-Verizon Touts and Celebrates 2,500 Patents (C)2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters...announced that it now owns nearly 2,500 patents in the United States and around the world...

Stem-cell patents to be reviewed.

WI State Journal (Madison, WI);  October 4, 2006 ;     787 words ......government will re-examine three stem-cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research...About 70 percent of such reviews result in patents being altered or revoked, said Brigid...take up to two years, Quinn said. The patents will remain active during the process...

Are patents worth their bother?(MEDICAL Edge)

Medical Design;  July 1, 2007 ;   Reitz, Victoria;   660 words ......make companies and inventors wonder if patents are worth the trouble to file. The debate...two compiled data about the money behind patents and patent litigation. They found that...make in profits. The authors note that patents do provide profits for their owners, but...