Unimportant and insubstantial substitutes for certain elements could defeat the patent, and its value to inventors could be destroyed by simple acts of copying.
During the night, our villa – a glass hymn to modernism – felt as insubstantial as one of those plastic snow-storm domes as the elements raged about us.
What should be the most solid and enduring element, the Constitution, is suddenly being subordinated to perhaps the most insubstantial and momentary elementNhow our politicians wish to appear to the voters.
Both the parties and the Federal Circuit spend considerable time arguing whether the so called "triple identity" test--focusing on the function served by a particular claim element, the way that element serves that function, and the result thus obtained by that element--is a suitable method for determining equivalence, or whether an "insubstantial differences" approach is better.
Actually, Calderón de la Barca's volcanic 1635 play has as many elements of The Tempest: a man chained up like a beast, an emphasis on insubstantial pageants, the amazed discovery by an isolated being of the opposite sex.
Its main element is a transparent sphere five feet in diameter, which iridescent in the sunlight looked about as insubstantial as a soap bubble, but which is made of acrylic plastic five inches thick.
At a glance, Deep Rover suggests something out of "Star Trek". Its main element is a transparent sphere five feet in diameter, which iridescent in the sunlight looked about as insubstantial as a soap bubble, but which is made of acrylic plastic five inches thick.
Yet Ms. Flon's concentration allows her to pull the disparate elements of Tante Line together -- the anguish over the past, her worries about François and Michèle (who seem too insubstantial to merit her attention), concern toward Anne and contempt for Gérard; it's her work that seems effortless, and real.
Its main element is a transparent sphere five feet in diameter, which — iridescent in the sunlight — looked about as insubstantial as a soap bubble, but which is made of acrylic plastic five inches thick.
Others were totally insubstantial.
