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Recent Examples of assignee The Senate bill would appear to revive incentives for benefit assignees, such as water restoration companies or roof contractors — not just policyholders — to sue insurers. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025 After all, Qualcomm recently surpassed IBM as the number-two patent assignee in the U.S.. Anshel Sag, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The data looks at the assignees for both regular utility and design patents and was limited to assignees that received at least 10 patents within the year. al, 22 June 2023 Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC, assignee. Eunice Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2015 The licenses safeguarded Arm's rights and expectations by prohibiting assignment without Arm's consent, regardless of whether a contemplated assignee had its own Arm licenses. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2022 The trust claims to be the assignee of a litigation financing company that was owed millions of dollars by Rittenhouse's first attorney, John Pierce of Los Angeles, and had obtained judgments against him. Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2022 The company also becomes the assignee of the invention. Nisha Talagala, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021 The evolving adversity in the case between principals of the assignor, Penn Dutch, and its assignee, and Von Kahle and company, is unusual, Jeffries said. Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignee
Noun
  • But most of the delegates were persuaded and supported his resolutions.
    Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the delegates from Africa, South America and Asian countries were quite critical of how European defense spending dominated main discussions instead of other threats, such as climate change.
    The Dial, The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The group’s legal representatives pointed to some instances in an email to TIME.
    Chad de Guzman, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This year, the party has spent nearly $152,000 backing a slate of Calumet City candidates led by Mayor Thaddeus Jones, who also is a state representative.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Also in the power hallway is Beau Harrison, deputy chief of staff for operations.
    Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • During that period, his brother was hired into what appears to have been his first federal job—deputy director of the Office of Secretarial Boards and Councils at the Department of Energy.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Family Photo That all changed on the evening of March 8, when federal agents arrived at their door.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Here, traffic optimization isn’t just a single system’s job; fleets of autonomous vehicles, interconnected traffic lights, and predictive analytics engines work as coordinated agents, dynamically rerouting vehicles and minimizing congestion.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If the owner decides to fire the attorney for having met their ethical obligation to raise such concerns, the attorney is equally bound to keep the reasons for their termination confidential (except in certain exceptional circumstances).
    Chris Deubert, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Immigration agents detained Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who teaches at Georgetown and has a visa, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his attorney has said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • McNeese has grabbed a number of headlines this week—not just for its upset and Wade’s employment future, but also thanks to the team’s student manager, Amir Khan, who went viral on social media and is now signing NIL deals.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Assignee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignee. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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