Clean room design is useful as a defense against copyright and trade secret infringement because it relies on independent invention.

"The geographical distribution of each tool type on the island suggests a unique origin, rather than multiple independent inventions".

War time secrecy kept these designers from knowing about each others design making each an independent invention.

The technique seems to have been an independent invention from China, but had very little impact and virtually disappeared at the end of the 14th century.

Due to its straightforward correspondence to the standard notation, it is possible that many other claims of independent invention are also true.

This is an instance of independent invention of the term, which was not pursued at the time.

The similarities of the bifacial technology can be explained by independent invention.

Up to the year 1990, the company had been granted 450 patents, of which 210 were independent inventions.

He said there was a growing movement among legal scholars and economists to back changes in patent law to protect the concept of independent invention.

Patents do not currently allow for independent invention, but copyright does.