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
  • Attack on vaccines For instance, last month, Kennedy canceled nearly $500 million in grants that supported developing mRNA vaccines to prevent the next pandemic.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The public media funding model was designed as a three-legged stool, with federal funding distributed by CPB, leveraged many times over by state and other grants, and viewer and listener contributions.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bubba is named in the suit, accused of helping to develop the film using Hulk’s trademarks without permission, and of violating a settlement agreement.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 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
  • 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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