patentable

Examples

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• When software patents first issued, there was concern about whether software should be patentable.

  Academic text (2007)

• The first is the recognition that computer software is patentable.

  Academic text (1999)

• Perhaps certain methods of testing for it may be patentable; perhaps not.

  Blog text (8)

• Some people argue that information in the public domain should not be patentable.

  Academic text (1996)

• In light of these considerations, can it still be argued that legal strategies should be patentable?

  Academic text (2007)

• The court sought to distinguish between fundamental principles, which are not patentable, and practical applications of fundamental principles, which can be patentable.

  Academic text (2009)

• Patent law has long distinguished between discovery and invention, holding that only the latter is patentable subject matter.

  Academic text (2017)

• Since then, public universities are entitled to the inventions of their staff, and researchers are obliged to report any patentable inventions before publishing them.

  Academic text (2018)

• The university's ad hoc approach to dealing with patentable inventions was not seriously debated until the mid-1950s.

  Academic text (2016)

• The new medical technique developed by the researchers is patentable because it is both innovative and beneficial.

Synonyms

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protectable

vspatentable

• Specialized

1 6.3

Can get legal rights like a patent or copyright

is limited to eligibility for a specific legal right requiring novelty and usefulness

How Patentable

patented

• Specialized

5.1

patentable

• Specialized

4 5.9

ineligible

26 5.0

unpatentable

• Specialized

1 7.4

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