How to Use patent office in a Sentence

patent office

noun

• Taco Bell took a cheeky tone in its May filing with the patent office.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The patent office in 2017 ruled that the Broad patents didn’t interfere.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• It's opened a new front in an unlikely place: the patent office.
  — Susan Decker, David Wethe and Christopher Yasiejko, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• The surge of filings from China has surprised the patent office.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 5 May 2018
• Each of the companies sought review at the patent office.
  — Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• In March, his boss at the patent office had come to see him and brought some of his biology books.
  — Katherine Arcement, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• Some have labelled it a mistake, or an oversight by the patent office.
  — Meshandren Naidoo, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
• As the original patent records show, that section of the patent went through a few redraftings with the patent office.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
• But even then, patent experts suspected there were still some loose ends for the patent office to tie up.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• According to the government’s patent office, the answer in 49 states is Taco John’s, a fast-food chain based in Wyoming.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2023
• Who works six days a week at a patent office while writing four seminal papers that change the field of physics in one year?
  — Bee Wilson, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2013
• With each innovation, Huawei rushed to the patent office.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• The new program by the patent office is part a larger effort to make public ideas that could help end the pandemic.
  — Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2020
• There are generally three main types of patents granted by most patent offices around the world: 1.
  — Jon Stojan, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
• Apple also contends the case should be thrown out because of the decisions from the patent office.
  — Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• This includes the attorney or agent's fees and the official filing fees charged by the patent office. 3.
  — Jon Stojan, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
• Yet the ruling did not have a major impact: broad software patents continued to pour out of the patent office.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 June 2018
• On top of this, plan to record all assignments at the patent office, which will keep the official ledger for ownership of your patent rights.
  — Wen Xie, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The Attorney Route We were led to believe that dealing with patents is something that should be left to the select few that passed the bar exam at the patent office.
  — Ophir Katzir, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps this explains why the patent office has been swamped by a two- to three-year backlog of applications since 2012.
  — Nat Watkins, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
• The two institutions have been dickering with each other over this question in the patent office and court for more than six years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• Unable to find a teaching post at any university, Einstein was forced to take a job with the patent office in Bern, Switzerland.
  — Hart Pomerantz, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• The patent office itself does not have authority to make new rules about which inventions are or are not patentable.
  — Jacob S. Sherkow, STAT, 14 Mar. 2021
• Instead, Einstein just did the work anyway while drawing his wages as a technical expert third-class at the Bern patent office.
  — John Hawks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2011
• The patent office approved a general patent for a design from which Dell looks to borrow elements.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
• The tribe’s sovereign status would exempt it from cases before the patent office.
  — Imani Moise, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• In May, Taco Bell had filed two petitions to the patent office seeking to nullify those exclusive rights.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• According to the patent office, theirs is one of only 4% of patents held exclusively by women.
  — Julia Martin, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
• The park service, meanwhile, challenged Delaware North’s trademark claims at the patent office.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• As of Thursday morning, the patent office said its computer systems were back online.
  — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024