How to Use patent right in a Sentence
patent right
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The only hitch was that Clarke, Chapman still held the patent rights.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2019
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Twice, the father of American invention filed claims against Woods for the patent rights to the telegraphony, only to lose both times.
—Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
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As part of the decision, the drug maker will no longer enforce patent rights relating to adults or children.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 Mar. 2020
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The verdict amounts to a big blow to the department, which sued Gilead in 2019 in one of its most muscular efforts in recent years to enforce its patent rights.
—Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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In this case, the buyer or licensee may have the means to pursue patent protection and leverage the patent rights to commercialize the invention. 4.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
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Germany’s parliament took that message to heart as part of a package to fight the virus, extending powers to suspend patent rights, a tool last used in the country in 1949.
—Susan Decker, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2020
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Thanks to the tight control Edison exercised over patent rights, all but one of them had to pay license fees to use Edison’s movie cameras and other equipment.
—Longreads, 15 May 2018
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Rohwedder’s seemingly booming business was affected by the Great Depression, and he was forced to sell his patent rights to a larger company, who kept him on as staff.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
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One reason for early concerns about these post-grant procedures is that the invalidation rate appeared to be so high, patent rights seemed downright ephemeral.
—Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Slate Magazine, 21 June 2017
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Proposals include allowing the government to undermine patent rights, opening the door for generic versions to be made.
—Randall Rutta For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
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While the argument was officially over the difference between the executive and judicial branch, this was really a dispute about the nature of patent rights.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2018
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For farmers, few examples of those corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them from saving seeds from their own crops for future planting.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
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Take Allergan, which has attracted bipartisan scrutiny for transferring patent rights for a drug to a Native American tribe in hopes of avoiding a legal challenge.
—Erin Mershon, STAT, 28 Mar. 2018
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Despite the heavy subsidies, federal agencies have not asserted patent rights to Gilead's drug, potentially a blockbuster therapy worth billions of dollars.
—Author: Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2020
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For their part, drug makers argue licensing eviscerates patent rights and have successfully lobbied U.S. officials over the years to lean on countries that have pursued or considered licensing.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 23 Mar. 2020
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There’s also a mechanism for pharmaceutical companies to enforce patent rights in China and provisions that obligate the government to crack down on piracy and counterfeit goods.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
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Adding to patients’ woes, pharmaceutical companies have extended patent rights on blockbuster drugs to limit competition.
—Sujata Srinivasan, courant.com, 21 Mar. 2018
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The pharmaceutical industry argues that licenses eviscerate patent rights, but advocacy groups say industry efforts to enforce intellectual property rights may come at the expense of patients who cannot afford increasingly costly medicines.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 28 May 2020
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