Sentence examples for fend off litigation from inspiring English sources

Producers of goods as different as antifreeze, fireworks, popcorn, cigarettes and light bulbs have sought to take refuge behind federal oversight in recent years to fend off litigation.

Mr. Carrier said that a single smartphone was built using hundreds of patents, and that the owner of any single one of those patents could hold up the entire industry, helping fuel a vicious cycle in which technology companies were being "forced to spend money to build an army of patents" to fend off litigation.

As it was, she had to fend off copycat products through litigation in the courts.

Eventually rising to the post of co-chief executive officer, he helped lead Inamed out of a morass of crippling tort litigation, fend off a hostile investor and stop the red ink.

And companies like Apple and Google, who do produce real technologies and products, spent more on IP lawyers and acquiring IP than they did on research -- mostly in a defensive effort to fend off predictably unpredictable left-field litigation.

He is now helping the bank fend off a tidal wave of shareholder litigation stemming from the subprime mortgage mess.

These attacks were fended off.

Fended off Lucy's amorous overtures.

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Ms. Nevárez fends off an abusive client.

Target firms, however, are showing pluck fending off unwanted suitors.