patent
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In the ruling, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, “Extending the patent rights beyond the first sale would clog the channels of commerce, with little benefit from the extra control that the patentees retain.”
From Washington Post • May 30, 2017
“Extending the patent rights beyond the first sale would clog the channels of commerce, with little benefit from the extra control that the patentees retain,” Roberts wrote.
From Washington Post • May 30, 2017
The name Elisha Otis appears in Kennedy’s essay only once, in a sentence about “other early inventors and patentees of portions of elevator machinery.”
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014
Software patentees have increasingly been claiming to own the function of their program itself - not merely the particular way they achieved that goal.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012
He was an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company and one of the original patentees of New England.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
Vocabulary lists containing patent
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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