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
It merely expresses the fact that while Borrow and Butler alike walked all through their lives invisible, for the rest of time they must both be patent, whether liked or disliked.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
It must be patent, therefore, that Spedding does not account for his occupations from his return to England in 1578 until 1597, when the first small volume of his Essays was published.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
