To his descendants at least two patents of nobility were granted, the peerages of Salisbury and of Fitzwilliam.
Since Austin's day lawyers of the same, or something like the same capacity have amassed wealth not inferior to Austin's out of electric patents practice, or in other branches of law which have been specially in request at the moment.
The most popular Weekly newspaper devoted to science, mechanics, engineering, discoveries, inventions and patents ever published.
Thirty-Seven Years' practice before the Patent Office, and have prepared more than One Hundred Thousand applications for patents in the United States and foreign countries.
Patents for it could be and should be obtained in England, France, Germany, Russia, and Spain.
And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes.
A number of suggestions and recommendations are contained in the report of the Commissioner of patents which are well entitled to the consideration of Congress.
I recommend also such legislation as will facilitate the entry of material intended for exhibition and protect foreign exhibitors against infringement of patents and the unauthorized copying of patterns and designs.
I respectfully invite your attention to the reports of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Patents on this subject.
D'Aubigne has tons of ideas and patents and can make no end of improvements in aeroplanes, but he has no nerve.
Anyhow, negotiations hung fire, for Carville has D'Aubigne quite under his influence, and nothing could be done with the aeroplane or the patents until these two came in somehow.
It would be as if, right at the beginning of the computer age, we had issued patents over formal logic in software--not over a particular computer design, but over the idea of a computer or a binary circuit itself.
We do not have the immune system provided by the established practices and norms, the "prior art," even the community expectations that protected software from the worst effects of patents over the building blocks of science.
Cracks formed in the boundaries that were supposed to prevent copyright from being applied to functional articles, to prevent patents extending to cover ideas, algorithms, and business methods.
But the concern here is not limited to the idea that without a subject matter bar, too many obvious patents will be granted by an overworked and badly incentivized patent office.
Yet it would make subsequent patents on the material impossible, because it had already been published.
But what about the start up company that does not have the thousands of patents necessary for entry?
Beset by a multitude of vague patents of questionable worth and uncertain scope, large information technology firms routinely create patent pools.
This is great for the established companies; they can proceed without fear of legal action from the landmine patents that litter the technological landscape.
Sadly, the Patent and Trademark Office seems determined to undermine this hope by granting patents on the most mundane and obvious applications.
Even though the rules would have allowed the equivalent of patenting the alphabet, the very maturity of the field minimized the disruption such patentscould cause.
My colleagues Arti Rai and Sapna Kumar have performed a patent search and found many more patents of similar breadth.
Where copyright law evolved to wall off and minimize the dangers of extending protection over software, patent law actually extended the idea behind software patents to make patentable any thought process that might produce a useful result.
Suddenly the patentsare available at the very beginning of the process, even to people who are merely specifying--in the abstract--the idea of a computer running a particular series of algorithmic activities.
The United States patents for his two lode mining claims finally came, and were examined by legal experts, who pronounced them perfect.
It is a warning that the filing of patents and patented processes insures no immunity from confiscation in the event of war, and a warning to foreign investors to go slow in investing their money in industries in the United States.
But Whitney and Miller were afraid to let people see the invention until they had made sure of their patents on it, and so they refused to let the crowds have a look at it.
But it had been so slow in coming that, when his rights were to a certain extent established, there were only a few years left his patents to run.
He was very much occupied perfecting new commercial schemes, protecting his patents from a horde of pirates, and planning to introduce his invention into Europe.
He was well received, and given the fullest credit for his achievements, but the patents were refused, and he had to return home with his small capital much depleted and business prospects at a low ebb.
He spent a fortune, but his patentswere not renewed, and competition was thrown wide open.
Watt had occasion to protect his patents by a suit at law, but he was victorious in this, and by the time the patent rights had expired the firm had built up such a large business that it was safe from rivals.
Within a year he had taken out patents in England and in other European countries, and had proposed a wireless telegraph system to the English Post-Office Department.
His workmen were offered bribes to leave his service, and teach his methods to rivals, his patents were infringed, right and left there was warfare, and he was fighting a score of enemies single-handed.
Later he took English patents on a machine for spinning flax, and on a new device for twisting hemp rope.
Hubbard hoped that it would purchase the Bell patents, as it had already bought many patents taken out on allied inventions.
There were no such protections for inventions as patents then; rumor soon spread abroad the news that Gutenberg had discovered a new art that would prove a gold-mine, and the poor inventor saw that the lawsuit would probably end in his ruin.
Of what use are the patents for invention, imagination, amelioration, and improvement?
The succeeding lectures on patents on inventions were no less instructive, although intermingled with shocking contradictions inserted with a view to make the useful truths more palatable.
An Act for Annulling and making Void all Patents of Officers for Life, or during good Behaviour.
An Act for Repealing the Acts of Settlement, and Explanation, Resolution of Doubts and all Grants, Patents and Certificates, pursuant to them or any of them.
And it is neither inconsistent with the dignity of a king, nor unusual, for something to be stated about his pedigree in charters and patents issued by him or in his name.
In the following twenty-five years over two hundred patents were granted for improvements in threshers, and since then the patents have numbered thousands.
The numbers produced were sufficient to make him very wealthy, and by the time the original patents expired, in 1877, over six million machines had been produced and sold by American manufacturers alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
