Sentence examples for patented from inspiring English sources

But the best protection for those with interesting DNA is to get a good lawyer before someone else does; it's not whether the gene should be patented, but who owns the patent.

While the tone of the instrument, with its patented carbon composite soundboard, is rich, the action is incredibly light, recalling older models from the dawn of the piano, before manufacturers began to prioritise power to appeal to romantics such as Liszt.

Concorde, after all, is gone now; but near where I live, in the old Japanese capital of Nara, there are more and more rickshaws in view – to cater to the very people who patented the idea of "Six Cities in Four Days".

"Bring back the boss class, say employees fed up with self-rule" (Early editions last week, News, page 20) said in 2007 "a 28-year-old computer programmer, Brian Robertson, came up with and patented the concept of holacracy" [a self-management philosophy].

Although diamorphine was invented in Britain in the 1870s, by two chemists working in Manchester and London, it was first patented in the 1900s in Germany by the Bayer Company of Elberfeld, which promoted it as a non-addictive cough suppressant and called this new medicine heroin from the German heroisch (heroic) – the first users claimed that this was how it made them feel.

But spending on patented drugs will rise, too.Until recently in poorer countries pharmaceutical firms mainly sold off-patent branded drugs, which command a premium over local generics, since patients trust their quality.

For drugs, the effective monopoly period is shorter: it can take a decade to develop, test and bring a patented molecule to market.Abolishing patents would more or less halt progress in pharmacology, but there is a strong argument for charging different prices for drugs in poor countries.

The buyers governments and, in America, health-maintenance organisations (HMOs)—are now putting pressure on prices, particularly where patented blockbusters are subjected to competition from out-of-patent generic drugs or "me-too" compounds (similar to, but not identical with, the patented ones).

Evaluate Pharma, an industry consultancy, estimates that about half of the $383 billion-worth of patented drugs to be sold in the world this year will lose patent protection within five years.

More controversially, India's patent controller recently granted a compulsory licence to Natco, a local manufacturer, authorising it to make copies of a patented cancer drug from Bayer, a German firm.

Though many of the charges of bad behaviour levelled at the patented-drugs industry by EU investigators may well be true, the report seems to let the generics industry off the hook too lightly.