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Recent Examples of invalidity
Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
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USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.
—Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
But patent invalidity suits—which test whether the patent claimed by the plaintiff is indeed valid and are the preferred defense for companies being sued for infringement—go through a special German patent court, which can take up to three times longer to render decisions.
—Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
Gallagher’s greeting card company Full Colour Black started an invalidity action in March 2019 to cancel the EU trademark on the iconic mural, arguing that Banksy must copyright his work instead of registering trademarks to incorporate them.
—Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
The Supreme Court said its declaration of invalidity is retroactive to the date the 2011 law was enacted, meaning those who have been sentenced under the statute can now seek relief.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
Label choice bias is far more common than subgroup invalidity.
—Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021
Echelon’s invalidity arguments are similar to those raised by Flywheel over related patents.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2020
USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.
—Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
But patent invalidity suits—which test whether the patent claimed by the plaintiff is indeed valid and are the preferred defense for companies being sued for infringement—go through a special German patent court, which can take up to three times longer to render decisions.
—Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
Gallagher’s greeting card company Full Colour Black started an invalidity action in March 2019 to cancel the EU trademark on the iconic mural, arguing that Banksy must copyright his work instead of registering trademarks to incorporate them.
—Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
The Supreme Court said its declaration of invalidity is retroactive to the date the 2011 law was enacted, meaning those who have been sentenced under the statute can now seek relief.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
Label choice bias is far more common than subgroup invalidity.
—Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021
Echelon’s invalidity arguments are similar to those raised by Flywheel over related patents.
—BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidity
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Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2021
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As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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This decision, framed by loyalty and political considerations, obscured the president’s infirmity at a moment of pivotal international consequence.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Despite his infirmities, Washington served his nation again by running for a second term.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
28 June 2024
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President Biden’s troubles — lingering inflation, wars and rumors of wars, his debility — could have benefited any Republican.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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Besides being nuisances, many types carry diseases including West Nile virus, encephalitis, and canine heartworm.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 May 2025
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However, in the 1950s, Panama disease — caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 1 — began ravaging across Gros Michel farms in Costa Rica, Panama and beyond.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.—
Mara Kardas-Nelson,
The Dial,
8 Apr. 2025
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For the second straight year, their dysfunction and lack of quality control has become one of the top stories of NFL Draft weekend.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2025
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In South San Antonio, state education officials said years of dysfunction and poor governance had resulted in poor student performance and public distrust.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2025
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With a newfound sense of self, Murderbot is forced to hide its disgust for human weakness and emotion.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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Proton Mail encourages you to save a recovery key in the form of a lengthy code and a QR code, but that recovery key itself now becomes a weakness.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 May 2025
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The threadbare plot is set in motion when Tesfaye’s screen-self (henceforth referred to as Abel) loses his voice while touring, a real-life incident forced here into heavy-handed metaphor as an existential ailment symptomatic of his deeper issues with himself and women.—
Charles Bramesco,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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Djokovic struggled with his fitness and had a reputation for pulling out of matches with various ailments.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Invalidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidity. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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