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Recent Examples of patents
For example, if prior art reveals that a new combination therapy improves treatment outcomes, officials may deem subsequent patents using the same drug cocktail as obvious and refuse to grant or enforce the patent.
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Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patents
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Disney still retains copyrights for later iterations of the characters, as well as trademarks, which vastly limit exploitation from competitors.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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The suit seeks statutory damages as well as an injunction that would block Midjourney from infringing on WB’s copyrights.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Biden administration created the program in 2023 to allow FEMA to award grants to state, local, or nonprofit organizations that provide support services to migrants released from ICE custody.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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This comes after earlier attempts to force changes at top universities by cancelling billions of dollars in research grants.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
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But worst of all is the knowledge that all of these terrors were trademarks of the asylums that stowed away those with mental health conditions well into the 20th century.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Disney still retains copyrights for later iterations of the characters, as well as trademarks, which vastly limit exploitation from competitors.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Irvine Company dealt underperforming assets and exercised their own strategic prerogatives.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Patents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patents. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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