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  • verb Present participle of patent.

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Examples

  • Ashby Pacesetter In Patents (with link to a Chemical & Engineering News article about gender differences in patenting, which cites Ashby as a woman "who gets it right")

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007

  • Ashby Pacesetter In Patents (with link to a Chemical & Engineering News article about gender differences in patenting, which cites Ashby as a woman "who gets it right")

    Valerie Sheares Ashby Peggy 2007

  • Furthermore, what business does the NSA or any other government agency have in patenting anything?

    NSA privacy busting patent 2005

  • India, fearing the loss of genetic material to pharmaceutical companies and other organizations interested in patenting the genomes of various organisms, forbids the export of tissue for analysis.

    India's Disappearing Vultures 2001

  • India, fearing the loss of genetic material to pharmaceutical companies and other organizations interested in patenting the genomes of various organisms, forbids the export of tissue for analysis.

    India's Disappearing Vultures 2001

  • However, unless the business method you are patenting is of a “revolutionary” nature, priceline. com’s patent for example, it’s a waste of time and money.

    Building Community. « The Paradigm Shift 2006

  • However, educational choices that girls and young women make - not to go into science, engineering and technology - is going to have an impact on their ability to design products for patenting, which is essentially an engineering or design skill.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Peggy 2007

  • However, educational choices that girls and young women make - not to go into science, engineering and technology - is going to have an impact on their ability to design products for patenting, which is essentially an engineering or design skill.

    Women in Science News Roundup: Europe Edition Peggy 2007

  • The Government has promoted the so-called patenting and engineering of the genetic designs of life forms to be used for the profit of corporations while endangering the future of the humanity.

    A Declaration of Independence from the Government of the United States 2008

  • It makes the idea of patenting seem silly, in a way.

    Material World: New Inventions Tracy Staedter 2008

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