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as in copyright
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as in obvious
not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation
unfortunately, the patent stupidity of the proposal did not deter the city council from putting it up for a vote
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as in blatant
very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad
a patent error that should have been caught before the book was published
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Recent Examples of patent
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
16 June 2026
Newman, a respected figure in patent law, was appointed in 1984 by Republican President Ronald Reagan to the Federal Circuit.
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Blake Brittain,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Nat Segnit,
Harper’s Magazine ,
16 Mar. 2022
Tech companies file patent infringement lawsuits all the time — BlackBerry just sued Facebook for patent infringement last week.
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Kurt Wagner,
Recode,
17 Mar. 2018
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The patent for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo’s blockbusters Wegovy and Ozempic, expired in China in March, though the company has regulatory data protection until early next year.
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Ed Silverman,
STAT,
16 June 2026
Newman, a respected figure in patent law, was appointed in 1984 by Republican President Ronald Reagan to the Federal Circuit.
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Blake Brittain,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Adjective
The caveat that Edison filed in 1890 was the latest in a long line of pre-patent applications.
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Nat Segnit,
Harper’s Magazine ,
16 Mar. 2022
Tech companies file patent infringement lawsuits all the time — BlackBerry just sued Facebook for patent infringement last week.
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Kurt Wagner,
Recode,
17 Mar. 2018
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Translation copyright © 2026 by Daniel Hahn.
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Major news companies are taking a two-track approach, filing copyright infringement suits in some cases and striking content licensing deals with AI firms in other cases.
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The council eventually approved allocating $20,000 to the town’s sustaining grant program and allowed applicants to amend their proposal to account for the increase funds.
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This story has been updated to correct inaccurate information provided about recipients of In Her Hands grants.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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Look in the most obvious places first.
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And to society, the implications of such blatant cronyism could be sweeping, from atrophying regulation and loss of accountability to further concentration of power and money among the wealthiest people on Earth.
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Someone behaves with a blatant lack of consideration for others.
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The Netherlands struck first when legendary defender Virgil van Dijk opened the scoring with one of his trademark headers.
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The success has not changed another of Kelly’s trademarks, which is to show as little emotion on the mound as possible, which means pretty much none.
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The airline wound up having to charter buses to drive us the rest of the way overnight.
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The big spend happens at the resort, the charter, the international airline.
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Less than two years after an infant girl died of apparent starvation in Mesquite, the child's parents pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and received lengthy prison sentences.
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The Sox announced after the game that Sean Newcomb will be the opener Saturday in an apparent bullpen game.
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Liverpool’s pressing from their forward line was a glaring weakness last season and no doubt will be a point of emphasis when Iraola begins working with the squad.
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That, just maybe, shows how positive things have gone until this point, and makes a 1-4 road trip capped by an 8-1 beatdown by the Mets on Sunday in New York all that more glaring, juxtaposed with the team’s good form through the 66 games before then.
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“Patent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patent. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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