"My company spent sixty million dollars to research a new medicine and was hoping to obtain a patent for it, so that others could not copy it immediately."
Little girls sometimes like to wear patent leather shoes.
His patent disdain for his supervisor lead to his termination.
The government issued a land patent to the gold mining company.
These apples cannot be grafted without permission from the patent owner.
Patent has several meanings.
Noun, meaning the protection given an invention: He applied for a patent for his new floor polisher.
Verb, meaning the act of protecting an invention: He hopes to patent his new floor polisher.
Adjective, meaning protected by a patent: His patent floor polisher will make him a millionaire.
Adjective, meaning open or obvious: It's patent that his wife only married him for the money he got for that darn floor polisher.
That depends on how you're intending to use the word. Examples:
"What Bob has just said is a patent falsehood."
"Jim applied for a patent on his latest invention yesterday."
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Before marketing his new product, Greg first applied for a patent.
The company was very successful because it owned a patent that prevented others from making the same product without their permission.
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are all examples of intellectual property protections.
I was patient in the Docter's office while waiting for my shots
the police officer found the patent
It is quite patent that you are required to bring a guitar to guitar club.
A patent.
They wouldn't "steal" your patent, in the sense that you would still own the patent, but they could certainly use your patent to make, use and sell your invention in any other country where you failed to patent it.
It could be any of the three. Which it is in any given case depends on the rest of the sentence. "Genentech has a patent on that compound" - Noun. "Harvey was going to patent his invention" - Verb. "These shoes are patent leather" - Adjective.
Thomas Alva Edison has a patent on that!
Yes; you would apply for a "utility" patent.
Yes, but as soon as the patent is granted, you can no longer use the idea.
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The manufacturing process is fairly simple but expensive.The patent office has to process the paperwork on thousands of new patents every year.
Yes, a patent issued in 2009 can certainly be used in court to collect damages from anyone who can be proven to be infringing the patent.
(Cogent, meaning convincing, can be synonymous with strong, indicating an element of persuasion.)Software patent abuse is a cogent argument for the reform of patent laws.The prosecutor presented clear, cogent evidence to the jury.Despite his cogent arguments, I won't change my vote.
Most patents issued today are for improvements on existing products; all you need to do is indicate the patent numbers and titles in the first sentence of the specification in your application.