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Should I File a Patent Application Before Licensing the Invention?

I am frequently asked by inventors whether they should file a patent application before seeking to license their invention. Some even ask whether they should first obtain a patent before they submit the invention to a licensing company like Lambert …
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Patent Exhaustion: Licensing Handset Manufacturers Did not Exhaust Patent as to Downstream Content Providers

A patent holder has exclusive rights in the patented invention and a cause of action against “whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells” the invention. 35 U.S.C. 271(a). One limit on those rights is the non-statutory doctrine …
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Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing – HispanicBusiness.com

Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded 

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