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- noun The
holder of apatent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even if a patentholder wins at trial, the defendent could file an appeal and still have injunctions in abeyence.
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In patent law, "inequitable conduct" suggests the patentholder knowingly misrepresented itself or withheld relevant information in applying for its patent, allowing the court to deem its patent unenforceable.
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What this means is that patent trolls will be less likely to hold their victims for ransom through injunction unless the patentholder can demonstrate that they meet a four-part test, already in use for other injunctions involving equity, which is hard for a non-producer to meet.
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Arguing that genes shouldn't be patented, the ACLU and others sued Myriad Genetics, the patentholder of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer gene tests.
Reason Magazine Ronald Bailey 2010
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Arguing that genes shouldn't be patented, the ACLU and others sued Myriad Genetics, the patentholder of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer gene tests.
Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010
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Arguing that genes shouldn't be patented, the ACLU and others sued Myriad Genetics, the patentholder of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer gene tests.
Reason Magazine Ronald Bailey 2010
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Injunctions are used as the threat by which a patentholder extracts money without necessarily having a patent that covers the use of the business-method in question.
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Wiley Rein and Hunton & Williams have represented patentholder NTP in a dispute against RIM.
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The Register notes that the Microsoft-led group that includes 3Com, SMC Networks, and Accton are pushing the, which prevents injunctions in most cases in which a patentholder isn't actively involved in making a product that uses the patent.
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It will potentially make it far less likely for a trial judge to issue an injunction at any stage of the proceedings, including if the patentholder wins the trial but the defendant plans to appeal.
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