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When the patent expired, new manufacturers simply used shredded wheat as a descriptive term.
Authors Ioannis G Pallikaris and Harilaos S Ginis are patent holders and have proprietary interest in PALM technique.
If products were protected by patents or other intellectual property claims, the government could grant compulsory licenses (a procedure allowed by trade agreements to override monopoly rights on a patent, in return for compensation to rights owners; see Box 1) and permit rapid introduction of generic competition.
Dr. Bates is a coinventor on Patent No.
This gave Newton time to get to the patent office and file his claim for calculus, before Leibniz could figure out what had happened.