patent
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In 2024, brand-name drugs still under patent protection accounted for just one in 10 of the drugs prescribed to patients and 87.7% of the costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Wu has filed a patent on the technology through the WashU Office of Technology Management.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
A patent application has also been filed for the device.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Bristol-Myers Squibb is staring down immediate patent expirations on such core revenue drivers as the cancer blockbuster Opdivo and the blood thinner Eliquis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The slippers on my feet are scuffed patent leather.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
The researchers have applied for patents covering the technology in several countries, and two patents have already been authorized.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Within a few years, he had filed hundreds of patents and electrified lower Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Basel-based group is facing the expiry of patents for a number of its drugs, including Entresto, a flagship treatment for heart failure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Longo, Todd Morgan, and Sebastian Brandhorst have filed patents related to the Fasting-Mimicking Diet through the University of Southern California, which has licensed related intellectual property to L-Nutra and may receive royalty payments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Professors could only envy the millions pocketed by radio entrepreneurs from the discoveries of those pioneers of electromagnetism Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, who had claimed no patents and earned nothing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
If a patented drug is listed by the U.S. government as in short supply, compounders can legally produce it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Also in 2023, engineering firm Hermann Ultraschall bought the rights to develop a patented ultrasonic paper sealing technology, a process which it likens to welding.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In any case, get used to it: China-made vehicles, transplant brands, patented technology and aesthetics are likely to reshape the U.S. auto market in the next decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The University of Michigan has patented the compound and licensed it to Diapin Therapeutics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Who remembers the cold comfort of that open hearth before we built a new school with its patented front-loader chunk stove with isinglass winders?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Among their backers was a third Nobel brother, Alfred, already well on his way to immense wealth after patenting dynamite in 1867.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
In his spare time, he enjoys inventing and patenting original ideas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
With the help of hid dad, he setup Arcane Footwear in 2021 after patenting a magnetic spring cushion which can be used in trainers.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
"My father absolutely just did not have any interest personally in patenting and in the vaccine being patented."
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
Lawrence eventually accepted the patenting of scientific inventions as a necessary evil.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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