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as in copyrights
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as in grants
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Recent Examples of patents
For example, if prior art reveals that a new combination therapy improves treatment outcomes, officials may deem subsequent patents using the same drug cocktail as obvious and refuse to grant or enforce the patent.
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Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patents
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The entertainment industry has expressed rising concerns over harmful AI use infringing on artist copyrights during the AI boom.—
Jaures Yip,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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Under traditional record contracts or publishing agreements, artists assigned their copyrights of their songs and recordings to record labels and publishers.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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One entrepreneur pitched the idea of a small-business liaison or task force that could answer questions and alert business owners to resources, grants and other opportunities.—
Mars King,
Twin Cities,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Seventh Circuit’s opinion underscored that the judiciary retains a role in reviewing statutory conditions for troop deployment, while the New York decision reaffirmed congressional mandates that security grants be based on risk assessment rather than political considerations.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Any restaurant names or trademarks in the names of our recipes are included solely for reference and do not indicate any authorization or approval by their owners.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Oct. 2025
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In December year, President Joe Biden signed a law prohibiting recognition in the United States of trademarks confiscated by the Cuban government.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
7 Oct. 2025
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Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Irvine Company dealt underperforming assets and exercised their own strategic prerogatives.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Patents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patents. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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