Sentence examples for obvious variations from inspiring English sources

In decisions posted on the agency's Web site yesterday, the examiners said that Dr. Thomson's cells appeared to be the same as, or obvious variations of, cells described in earlier scientific papers or in patents issued to others.

(Anyone with a common name who has tried to pick a username and found that the first dozen obvious variations were already taken has a sense of how broad that could get).

"Companies need to get out there and register the obvious variations and mistakes," said Richard Bell, director of e-commerce research at Tower Group, a financial service consulting company in Needham, Mass.

I decided not to do the deal — I don't actually think that owning that particular URL is important, as customconferencetable.com is owned by a third company, and most of the other obvious variations are in different hands.

In contrast, there were obvious variations in travel for social activity among the respondents.

The particle size of the nanoparticle samples remained stable and exhibited no obvious variations in drug content after half a month.

Teva's argument that the patents were just an obvious variation of earlier inventions "fails at every major crossroad".

Even Gandolfini's performance in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly opposite Brad Pitt, though a great piece of work, was an obvious variation on the Soprano theme.

Judge Pender said that the aspect of the patent that was in the case covered an obvious variation of earlier inventions.

The application, for a voice- and text-based search engine, was "an obvious variation" on existing ideas, a patent examiner named Raheem Hoffler wrote.

Judge Thomas Pender of the trade commission said in May that the patent was invalid because it was an obvious variation of earlier work by others related to image processing.