Sentence examples for a patents from inspiring English sources

A: Patents might play into it.

His father worked as a patents attorney and convinced the IPO that Sam's idea was "unique" and had "a clear purpose" – the two criteria for granting a patent.

Her father is an executive vice president of Spencer Trask Intellectual Capital, a patents affiliate of Spencer Trask & Company, an investment firm in New York.

The former judge, who is a patents expert, said: "The patents are registered in the UK company [Iconic Worldwide Gaming], of which Mr Sarao is a passive minority shareholder.

In the last few days, as Congress has debated a patents measure, the industry has been pulling out the stops to renew a law that provides the pharmaceutical industry with a six-month extension on patents in return for the drug makers' agreement to do more testing of drugs for pediatric use.

Second, it investigates the implications of patent scope for the firm's subsequent inventive performance, and finds that, when the scope of a patents spans across a higher number of technological classes, the extent to which the inventing firm itself succeeds in building on the knowledge underlying its own patent is lower.

He got a patent.

One held a patent.

Want a patent?

"We are a patent-licensing company".

(He submitted a patent application this week).