Thus, the claims require the patent applicant to stake out the monopoly sought.

All attempts will be made to include patent applications from a broad range of patent applicants.

He also found that no list of patent applicants had ever been drawn up, a deficiency he soon corrected.

In this system, the burden of drafting good claims is much higher on the patent applicant (or on his counsel).

But the pilot project applies only to applications in information technology, and only with the approval of the patent applicants.

In 2007, Canaton became the 100th largest patent applicant in the world.

Thus, officials think of their fee-paying patent applicants as their customers: the more the better, again.

We simply cannot allow a patent applicant to say "Here is a description of software to do such and such.

Thereafter, he refrained from transmitting such privileged information to rival patent applicants.

Second, Congress tried to make the processing of patents self-sustaining: it was to be supported entirely from fees paid by patent applicants.