Sentence examples for was infringed from inspiring English sources
verb
Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
The territorial integrity of the country was infringed.
The whole matter was gone into at the trial, so no right of the defendants was infringed.
The Innovation Act will require plaintiffs to describe in greater detail how their patent was infringed upon.
As Mr. Justice STEVENS recognizes, petitioners possessed a legitimate expectation of privacy in the films, and this expectation was infringed by the Government's unauthorized screening of them.
However, in 1991, a federal court ruled that a publisher's copyright was infringed when a Kinko's copy shop reprinted portions of a book in an academic coursepack.
He said the trial would take place in three stages - liability, damages, and whether the patent was infringed by Apple wilfully, which could lead to enhanced penalties.
Plaintiffs argue they had no knowledge Kinko's was infringing, only that they were copying.
Kinko's should have known that it was infringing plaintiffs' copyrights.
Last year, HTC filed a complaint with the trade commission claiming that Apple was infringing its patents.
"He did a complete 180, and told me I was infringing on his trademark," Ali said.
Our civil liberties were being infringed.
