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Example sentences for: patent

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You come up with a no-nonsense product designed to remove widgets, patent it, and market it under the straightforward name Widget Terminator.
That is patent rubbish, of course, for it can easily be demonstrated that written language cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons: the more formalized versions of language that are reflected there, the relatively complex constructions that are accepted as normal to writing but would be difficult to construct viva voce and difficult to assimilate unless read, the preservation of fossilized forms--both words and grammar--made possible by written records, and so on.
The lobbying effort has yielded a bill that, if passed, will let Schering-Plough petition a special review board to extend the patent for another three years, thus preventing cheaper generic versions of the drug from being sold.
Today, sober or smoldering brunettes leave their natural roots in place and add blondness to taste, as a patent ornament and sophisticated reference.
USAT 's "Money" front brings news that an obscure company has gotten a patent for software that often performs Y2K bug fixes in 80 percent less time than previous tools, bringing it business from the likes of Citibank, NationsBank and the Interior Department.