A patent is a document, issued by an authorized governmental department, granting a set of exclusive rights to the inventor or assignee for a limited period.
Apple was granted a set of patents earlier this week, but while those were practical, even prosaic in their content, this new one is simply baffling.
Once they found the right candidate, they might have to pay him more than the old guy, including granting a set of newly priced stock options.
Our system has become ridiculous because we have let it, because many of us -- myself included -- have come to take for granted a set of political rights and responsibilities that people here in Tunisia and elsewhere in the region are willing to die for.
Currently, we are working on a collaborative project with our school librarian, who was inspired to write her own grant for a set of iPads to be used by our school.
Safely domiciled in a part of the world that suffered least from deprivation and political instability, he took his surroundings for granted as a set of conditions from which mankind could aspire to higher things, instead of as the higher thing that the rest of the world could only aspire to.
The last VFX Power, "Zoom In", causes a camera close-up of Joe, powering up his normal attacks, granting him a set of new attacks, and paralyzing all lesser foes in proximity to him.
Some shareholders have expressed concern at the proposal to grant a set parcel of shares to directors on the basis of the previous year's performance that will be awarded in its entirety after five years.
Scrap the 1990 temporary worker quotas, which grant a set number of visas to foreign employees; they are numbers chosen out of thin air.
By the early 1980s, Johnson had joined the staff of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and had secured a grant to prepare a set of teaching materials – pedagogical modules concerning computer ethics – that turned out to be very successful.
