Even before the announcement of the patent award, the University of Rochester Medical Center was 3 years into a 10-year, $550 million self-improvement regimen.

The loss of a monopoly due to these same-day patent awards led many of Fitch's investors to leave his company.

Some competitors have objected to Amazon's patent awards, saying they stifle competition.

The patent award had been criticized by people in the multimedia field, who contended that it was too broad and covered elements of voice, data and video software long in use.

He was the winner of numerous innovation and patent awards while at KT.

Jubran has a patent award on Custom API Modeling for Source Code Static Analysis Simulator.

When the patent award was publicized, however, it drew a storm of protest in the computer industry.

Hungarian engineer Denes Mihaly submitted his sound-on-film Projectofon concept to the Royal Hungarian Patent Court in 1918; the patent award was published four years later.

It is very welcome that this prestigious research institute has taken action and, with the support of the French Ministry of Health, is initiating an opposition procedure to the patent award.

Evidence of technical contribution will often be in the form of publications, but other evidence will also be considered, such as patent awards or statements of longstanding contribution to an industrial group effort.