I. noun
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patent leather
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patent leather shoes
patent medicine
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application
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It is essential that any ideas and development work concerning a possible future patent application are kept absolutely secret and confidential.
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A record 5-year high in the number of published patent applications is indicative of the increased level of innovation throughout the company.
leather
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When found, she was wearing a pink floral dress, lilac tights, a white cardigan and black patent leather shoes.
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Marion looked down at her low-heeled patent leather pumps and sighed.
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apply
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His company has applied for patents on the method.
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He applied for a patent for his design on 26 July 1907.
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From the priority date, the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries.
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The Megan and Morag experiments also enabled us to apply for patents .
file
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Following in the well-trodden footsteps of Christopher Columbus, western corporations have filed a number of patents on these attributes.
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By the time he died, though, he had filed over a thousand patents and was a very wealthy man.
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The first person to file a patent on the idea was W. Bartlett Jones of Chicago in 1927.
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He has filed a patent on his idea, and hopes to have a working prototype by the end of the year.
grant
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But if an application is made to patent a computer-controlled furnace it may well succeed and be granted a patent.
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They were granted the first patent on the airplane in 1906.
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The United States patent and trademark office has granted three patents to RiceTec of Texas.
hold
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The group displayed material from Syngenta, the multinational which holds the golden rice patents .
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Does he hold the patent on himself, so that every part of him is his, and only his?
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The institute will hold the patent and distribute the royalties.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb holds the international patent on stavudine.
infringe
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At about the time of the exhibition, it emerged that the firm was infringing the Medlock patent .
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D infringes the patent for the computer chips, regardless of knowledge.
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The Heinen letter claims' Latitude appears to specifically infringe Apple's patents and copyrights.
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It has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft stating that it has infringed two Stac patents .
obtain
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By this time Sadler was interested in steam engines: in 1791 he obtained a patent for an unsuccessful rotary engine.
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Unocal obtained the patent in February 1994 and was sued in April 1995.
protect
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Some computer inventions have to be protected by copyright rather than patents .
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S., Roundup remains protected by patents until 2000.
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Farmers must also agree to destroy any leftover seed each year in order to protect Monsanto's patent .
take
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He has taken out patents for the process and for the chips.
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And they are taking out a patent on it.
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Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model.
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Peregrine Phillips took out a patent in 1831 for the contact or catalytic process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid.
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Roebuck was very interested in Watt's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it.
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When, in 1979, he had found that the technology was available for his ideas, Campbell took out patents .
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Albright purchased the patents , and then took out his own patents on improvements to Schrötter's method.
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I haven't forgotten the way you talked about taking out patents on some of the techniques I developed here.
use
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In some cases a patentee can be compelled to grant a licence to use his patent on reasonable terms.
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Each company seeks unspecified damages and injunctions that would stop the other from using its patents .
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At about the time of the exhibition, it emerged that the firm was infringing the Medlock patent .
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He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
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However, spilled milk and out-dated patents are two things equally useless, so I shall catch the late train tomorrow.
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It is essential that any ideas and development work concerning a possible future patent application are kept absolutely secret and confidential.
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It is indoctrination Misguided pride leaves us impervious to any version of success that does not bear the patent of our system.
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The Megan and Morag experiments also enabled us to apply for patents.
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The United States patent and trademark office has granted three patents to RiceTec of Texas.
II. adjective
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leather
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She noticed with disgust that there were several droplets of blood on the patent leather .
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And black patent leather tap shoes covered her most famous toes, which nobody realized yet were famous.
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The woman stepped lightly away on her high-heeled, patent leather boots to her basket-work Mini parked beside the public convenience.
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Footwear first, of course: Gucci patent leather , square-toed boots are in.
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He reached centre-stage and crossed one leg in front of the other - patent leather pumps whining in the glow from the footlights.
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Pearlized white patent leather handbags are popular, says Aaronson.
medicine
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Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle.
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We are exposed to chemicals everywhere, in oven cleaners, detergents, patent medicines , hair sprays-everywhere.
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For instance, he collects on his little card index all references in Wells to feeding, eating, and patent medicines .
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Now, when I stopped at the Emporium, I looked at the patent medicine display first.
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He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
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The new display focuses primarily on the role of patent medicines from 1870 to 1906.
system
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It should also be noted that no patent system can be watertight.
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Footwear first, of course: Gucci patent leather, square-toed boots are in.
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Her reluctance to go made her heart ache, but the truth was patent .
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This entitled them to bring a patent action against the buyers to enforce the patent.
III. verb
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process
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What remains For MacDonald and Wimpey, of course, is patenting their process and cloning their hybrid for the purpose of franchising.
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Union Carbide have patented a process for the catalytic conversion of synthesis gas to ethylene glycol.
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Fox Talbot continued to work on his own photographic process in 1839-40 and patented his positive-negative process in 1841.
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Cox made millions by patenting a device used in steel production.
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For the outside walls, he used cinder-block masonry, with a patented concrete stucco sprayed on.
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He was scarcely out of school before he had patented a rock-boring machine for coal mines.
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Healthcare companies are scrambling to patent the new approach first.
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The advantage of tera-ethyl lead was that it could be patented and royalties charged.
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They patented the Sam Torrance Putter and Sam signed a contract.
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They took Joly's method a step further when they patented their autochrome system in 1904.