How to Use patent office in a Sentence

patent office

noun
  • Taco Bell took a cheeky tone in its May filing with the patent office.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Some have labelled it a mistake, or an oversight by the patent office.
    — Meshandren Naidoo, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But even then, patent experts suspected there were still some loose ends for the patent office to tie up.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • The surge of filings from China has surprised the patent office.
    — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 5 May 2018
  • In March, his boss at the patent office had come to see him and brought some of his biology books.
    — Katherine Arcement, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Who works six days a week at a patent office while writing four seminal papers that change the field of physics in one year?
    — Bee Wilson, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2013
  • As the original patent records show, that section of the patent went through a few redraftings with the patent office.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
  • The new program by the patent office is part a larger effort to make public ideas that could help end the pandemic.
    — Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2020
  • Apple also contends the case should be thrown out because of the decisions from the patent office.
    — Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The patent office itself does not have authority to make new rules about which inventions are or are not patentable.
    — Jacob S. Sherkow, STAT, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The patent office in 2017 ruled that the Broad patents didn’t interfere.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The tribe’s sovereign status would exempt it from cases before the patent office.
    — Imani Moise, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • On top of this, plan to record all assignments at the patent office, which will keep the official ledger for ownership of your patent rights.
    — Wen Xie, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • The two institutions have been dickering with each other over this question in the patent office and court for more than six years.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • As of Thursday morning, the patent office said its computer systems were back online.
    — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The patent office approved a general patent for a design from which Dell looks to borrow elements.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The patent office earlier this year notified Moderna that the patent would be allowed.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Perhaps this explains why the patent office has been swamped by a two- to three-year backlog of applications since 2012.
    — Nat Watkins, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Instead, Einstein just did the work anyway while drawing his wages as a technical expert third-class at the Bern patent office.
    — John Hawks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2011
  • The park service, meanwhile, challenged Delaware North’s trademark claims at the patent office.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In May, Taco Bell had filed two petitions to the patent office seeking to nullify those exclusive rights.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Unable to find a teaching post at any university, Einstein was forced to take a job with the patent office in Bern, Switzerland.
    — Hart Pomerantz, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • According to the government’s patent office, the answer in 49 states is Taco John’s, a fast-food chain based in Wyoming.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2023
  • Indeed, that's the conclusion the European patent office reached in a preliminary ruling on the topic.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2018
  • The Attorney Route We were led to believe that dealing with patents is something that should be left to the select few that passed the bar exam at the patent office.
    — Ophir Katzir, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That building, dedicated in 1836 by Andrew Jackson, had long served as a patent office.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Bell reached the patent office mere hours before Gray and won the famous battle over the invention when his patent was passed on March 7, 1876.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
  • For example, some countries, like China, require that their nationals file patents with the Chinese patent office first before anywhere else.
    — Wen Xie, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • Costs may be higher for patent filings that require extensive modifications and lengthy communication with the patent office.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2024
  • This application is examined by the patent office and receives the filing date of the provisional application.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2024

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