Example sentences for: patents

How can you use “patents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The lawsuit accuses Monsanto of introducing products without testing them sufficiently for safety, misleading farmers about these products, and monopolizing the patents and sale of these unsafe products.

  • Some respondents requested that the standards provide for reporting additional information, such as transfers of stewardship property to foreign governments, stewardship land sold to the private sector, the Federal Government's interest in such things as property held by nonfederal entities or patents generated through Federal research and development funds, and foreign contributions to Federal programs.

  • Society should recognize that funding university research through patents is folly, and should fund it directly, as in the past.

  • The Los Angeles Times--which fronts the Social Security news in a story that splits the difference between the other two papers--leads instead with a story about a Maryland biotech firm that has made remarkable progress in cracking the genetic code and is seeking patents for 6,000 of its research finds.

  • These eight "anti-environment" Senate votes were: a vote against de-funding the Synfuels Corp.; a vote in favor of constructing a highway along the boundary of a wilderness park in Hawaii; a vote against creating a new victim's compensation program under the Superfund program; a vote to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; two highway bill votes; a vote against banning new billboard construction along federally subsidized highways; and a vote against a moratorium on issuing federal patents for hard-rock mining on public lands out west.


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