be patent
Example Sentences
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"Some of our greatest inventors would be patent trolls under this law. Our universities would be patent trolls."
From US News ● Jul. 14, 2015
International Business Machines Corp, one of the largest holders of patents, prefers that most software be patent eligible.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2014
In the near future, the greatest beneficiaries may be patent lawyers.
From Economist ● Dec. 8, 2011
Why, man, it would be patent medicine then, and no one could take it from you.
From The Bag of Diamonds by Fenn, George Manville
The fact should be patent to everybody that children strive constantly to use the brains with which Nature has endowed them.
From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward
