While tourists head toward the main altar, a smaller group veers off, binoculars in hand, eagerly scanning the canopy and ...

Bipartisan group says "patent thickets" increase drug prices, prevent competition Letter asks U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to crack down on "highly similar" patents for single invention ...

In a significant victory for AbbVie, a U.S. appeals court panel declined to revive a lawsuit that accused the company of using a so-called patent thicket to forestall competition for its Humira ...

As the group ambled along groves and thickets, Li patiently whispered which birds to watch for. Hoopoes strutting through the weedy undergrowth, woodpeckers tapping into bark, and tits darting ...

John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement. Reining in patent thickets would create $1.8 billion in taxpayer savings over the span of a decade, the Congressional Budget Office has forecast.

Thickets of men crowd around Jane, symbolising the obstacles in her path but blunting the tale’s emotional force. Brontë’s Jane is steeped in isolation – here, she barely gets a moment to ...