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Protecting, in a way
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patenting
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vb. (present participle of patent English)
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Patent \Pat"ent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patented ; p. pr. & vb. n. Patenting .] To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Usage examples of patenting.
According to a survey conducted in 1998, only about 60 percent of patents held by the top patenting firms around the world were utilized in mainstream businesses.
On the other hand, gene patenting by academic researchers causes far less concern, since the work is freely shared.
And the genetic modifications will require patenting the marine animal in each case.
I do think that there are some things that have been done in a business sense that are tremendously bad and dangerous and inappropriate, and among those are the patenting of genes.
I think that would do a great public service and also oblige scientists to start to look at the patenting business in a different way.
Supreme Court should rule against Metabolite, and the Patent Office should begin to reverse its strategy of patenting strategies.
This rich heritage of invention would be denied us by a patenting error.
I oppose patenting genes, and argue such patents should never have been granted in the first place.
The Supreme Court should rule against Metabolite, and the Patent Office should begin to reverse its strategy of patenting strategies.
It takes little imagination to see that monopolistic patenting inhibits creation and productivity.
Some researchers complain that such companies are patenting genes they barely understand and, by doing so, restricting future research on those genes.
Patent Office held hearings to examine questions raised by gene patenting, turning back the clock to disallow such patents, as some critics urge, seems unlikely.
Patent and Trademark Office will approve them, as it has repeatedly tightened rules to prevent patenting of genes for which there are no clearcut uses.
According to a survey conducted in 1998, only about 60 percent of patents held by the top patenting firms around the world were utilized in mainstream businesses.
Although he would never consider patenting or manufacturing these devices, he often gave prototypes to old caving friends as presents.