Sentence examples for main patents from inspiring English sources

It agreed to pay him a million dollars for the rights to his main patents, plus royalties on every television set sold.

A federal district court in Newark ruled in favor of Pfizer, upholding its three main patents for Celebrex nearly a year ago.

The main patent on the drug expires next year.

The main patent on BuSpar expired in November 2000.

The main patent on Enbrel was to expire in October of next year.

SmithKline's main patent on Paxil does not expire until 2006.

Cheap generic versions could enter the American market as early as 2015 when the main patent on Gleevec expires.

Dunlop later lost his main patent after it was discovered that Thomson had already patented the principle of the pneumatic tire.

Relative to its GDP, Finland files the most patents at the world's main patent offices in America, Europe and Japan according to the OECD.

The main patent on Prilosec will expire in October, but AstraZeneca has taken actions that could extend its protection "for years and years," Mr. Sweig said.

The decision also sends a warning to other brand-name drug companies not to use secondary patents unfairly to keep generic companies from selling lower-priced versions of products once the main patent has expired.