Patents

Word PATENTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Patents"

What do we mean by patents?

A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.

A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.

License; formal permission.

Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.

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The word "patents" in example sentences

NB The best thing to do with respect to patents is to publish your patentable work in order to establish it as prior art, i.e. unless some blighter has already patented it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So we can expect litigation over which, if either, of these patents is valid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whole point and central argument for drug patents is to provide a monopoly for a period of time that generously rewards companies for creating NEW drugs and to provide them with the incentive and the capital to create more NEW drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another alternative to patents is for medical insurance companies to invest in drug R&D. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The FUD expressed in open source community about patents is like the FUD expressed in the legal community about open source 10 years ago, when lawyers assumed open source would be riddled with copyright infringement. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

However, extracting patents from the Indian Patent Office is like a root-canal operation. ❋ Venky (2009)

As for patents, they only last 20 years and yes the purpose of patents is to encourage innovation and to allow society to benefit from the patent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lemley: Leaving the bottom left box empty in patents presupposes a perfectly functioning capital market for patents. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Process is more explicit in patents because of the claim structure. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

One of the things you need to understand about patents is that the definition of who is an inventor has nothing whatsoever to do with the discretion of anyone's advisor or politics or business or anyfuckingthing like that. ❋ Candid Engineer (2009)

However we decide to treat stage III trials, the economic case against pharmaceutical patents is clear: they do more harm than good. ❋ David K. Levine (2010)

Ignoring patents is a type of behavior that comes out of a sick institution. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

The case for drastically reducing and eventually abolishing medical patents is clear: they raise the social cost of drugs, and medicine, while providing little or even a negative incentive for medical innovation. ❋ David K. Levine (2010)

The highest innovation density, measured in patents per square kilometer, is in San Jose, Calif. (the capital of Silicon Valley) followed by nearby San Francisco and Los Angeles. ❋ Nikki Waller (2010)

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