Sentence examples for term patent from inspiring English sources

THE term "patent" implies accessibility.

The term "patent" means a patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The term patent troll arose in the late 1990s in reference to the trolls in Norwegian folktales, who exact tolls from travelers passing over bridges.

In the world of intellectual property, the term "patent troll" denotes a firm that owns a patent, but does not manufacture products or supply services based upon it.

NPEs reject the term patent troll and claim that they are actually protecting the system by ensuring that patent holders receive the monetary rewards they are due.

Even the term "patent assertion" implies that the purpose of the company is to file lawsuits, Mr. Mossoff said, adding that he prefers calling them what they are — patent licensing companies.

People's quantitative easing is simply an alternative form of helicopter money, a term patented by that well-known leftie Milton Friedman.

The entire pharmaceutical industry in reality runs on government-granted monopolies, mostly in the form of long-term patent protections.

Gilbert and Katz (2006) (GK) show that allowing (pure) patent bundling increases the incentives for patent owners to enter into "long-term" patent licensing that commits them not to expropriate licensees' sunk costs in complementary assets with opportunistic licensing terms.

4. Compile an "inventors' dictionary," including the explanations of the following terms: patent, trademark, intellectual property, copyright, infringement, royalty, exclusive, extension.

(Some companies don't obtain long-term patent licenses, but instead get shorter "guillotine" licenses that must be renewed periodically).