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• v  obtain a patent for
• v  grant rights to; grant a patent for
• v  make open to sight or notice
  His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him
• s  (of devices and processes) protected by patent
  they are patented inventions

• What does a company do with a patented process in some basic field of its industry? Sometimes it keeps the patent to itself.

• patent

News & Articles

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• Santa Fe rallies past Blizzard
  It was a patented Santa Fe rally Friday night.
  July 6, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
• Alkame(TM) Water Appoints Joe Galasso as Director of Sales
  Alkame™ Water, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pinacle Enterprise Inc. a health and technology holding company, names Joe Galasso Director of Sales of its patented technology bottled water company.
  July 5, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Local Sports
  MILROY — It was another one of those patented Bill Corbin combacks.
  July 5, 2013 - The Lewistown Sentinel

Quotes

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• Steve Jobs in BBC News
  In a statement at the time, Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs said: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own...
• John Paul Stevens in Bloomberg
  We've had an issue, a problem that we've had to confront, and because open-source Linux does not come from a company -- Linux comes from the community -- the fact that that product uses our patented intellectual property is a problem for our... Steve Ballmer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGT7DyhzQ3h00Y6kfNCQOU0mgtXOA NewsFactor Network http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml%3Fstory_id%3D110006GY0INS&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFvHHwcLlz88tnJClPgJ4buuKoh_A Nov 20, 2006 72689 97279 patentee Congress, the antitrust enforcement agencies, and most economists have all reached the conclusion that a patent does not necessarily confer market power upon the patentee," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court in Washington.