Sentence examples for patent play from inspiring English sources

There also appears to be a global patent play here for Samsung in its ongoing fight with rivals such as Apple.

After questions and criticisms of the trustees' authority mounted, the town sought guidance late last year from the State Department of State to determine what power the trustees could wield and what part the Andros Patent played.

Patents play a major role in determining who gets credit for an invention.

The means of protection themselves, such as patents, play a great role in the information society.

That is very different than the role patents play in an industry like pharmaceuticals, where a blockbuster drug may be covered by a single patent or a few.

I hold countless patents, play the piano, advise elected officials, and count cards.

In a statement, GW Pharmaceuticals said: "Patents play an important role in incentivising research and innovation in medical science.

But patents played no role in the early history of personal-computer software.

Today, we are experiencing a similar threat to innovation with patents playing the role of "weapons of mass destruction".

To assess the extent that the patents played a role in the malcontent amassed against Myriad, we selected a comparable story of product evolution as a point of comparison: Genentech's Herceptin®.

Meanwhile, patent trolls play the role of freelance snipers, firing totally unpredictable lawsuits at everyone.