patents

plural of patent

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Noun
  • The suit seeks statutory damages as well as an injunction that would block Midjourney from infringing on WB’s copyrights.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The domestic and international protections afforded by patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret law supports the need for identifying the location of the IP.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both took large stakes in their companies as founders, but neither has received stock grants or options since those companies had initial public offerings in 1997 and 2012, respectively.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Under Mahan’s tenure, the city’s vehicles have been outfitted with pothole-detecting cameras and its employees use AI to win multimillion-dollar grants.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The domestic and international protections afforded by patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret law supports the need for identifying the location of the IP.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t the first David versus Goliath story in sports trademarks.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Irvine Company dealt underperforming assets and exercised their own strategic prerogatives.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Trump’s bombing campaign significantly dialed up the unaccountable military prerogatives of the American presidency.
    Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Patents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patents. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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