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• come off patent — come/go off patent ► if a product comes off patent or goes off patent, the period of time for which someone has the patent for it comes to an end: »A lot of the company s top selling drugs were going off patent. Main Entry: ↑patent …   Financial and business terms

• come/go off patent — ► if a product comes off patent or goes off patent, the period of time for which someone has the patent for it comes to an end: »A lot of the company s top selling drugs were going off patent. Main Entry: ↑patent …   Financial and business terms

• go off patent — come/go off patent ► if a product comes off patent or goes off patent, the period of time for which someone has the patent for it comes to an end: »A lot of the company s top selling drugs were going off patent. Main Entry: ↑patent …   Financial and business terms

• patent — the granting by a government of monopoly rights to the owner of an invention to manufacture and sell it for a certain number of years, conditional on the owner being willing to immediately reveal the ideas incorporated in the invention, so that… …   Financial and business terms

• Patent Cliff — A colloquialism to denote the potential sharp decline in revenues upon patent expiry of one or more leading products of a firm. A patent cliff is when a firm s revenues could fall off a cliff when one or more established products go off patent,… …   Investment dictionary

• Patent troll — is a pejorative but questioned term used for a person or company who is a non practicing inventor, and buys and enforces patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered by the target or observers as unduly aggressive or… …   Wikipedia

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• Patent Pending (Arthur C Clarke short story) — Patent Pending is a short story written by Arthur C. Clarke.This story deals with invention of a device that can record your experiences directly off your brainwaves in a way that these experiences can be traded so someone else can replay your… …   Wikipedia

• patent troll — (PAT.unt trohl) n. A company that purchases a patent, often from a bankrupt firm, and then sues another company by claiming that one of its products infringes on the purchased patent.. adj. patent trolling pp. Example Citations: These patent… …   New words

• Patent model — A patent model was a scratch built miniature model no larger than 12 by 12 by 12 (approximately 30 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm) that showed how an invention works. It was one of the most interesting early features of the United States patent… …   Wikipedia