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Example sentences for: patent

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But evisceration of patent protections could slow the development of the drugs poor countries need.
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.
Authors Ioannis G Pallikaris and Harilaos S Ginis are patent holders and have proprietary interest in PALM technique.
The WP off-lead is a terrific exposé of the campaign that Schering-Plough, maker of the ubiquitous anti-allergy drug Claritin, has waged on Congress in hope of being allowed to extend its wildly lucrative patent on the drug.
Since his product works differently from yours, you cannot get him for violating patent law, so you haul him into court and sue the pants off him for infringing on the implied trademark you have established with your Widget Terminator.