Definitions
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- adjective Opposing
patents (legal claims to inventions) or the nature of current patent law.
Etymologies
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anti- + patent
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Examples
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"But there's an international antipatent lobby that doesn't believe drugs should be patented at all."
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Yet antipatent activists, with their myopic fixation on price, are relentlessly bullying bureaucrats to follow their advice.
Curing the Diseases of Poverty Franklin Cudjoe 2007
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Under pressure from antipatent activists, the WHO in 2004 green-lighted without testing an antiretroviral generic produced by Ranbaxy, an Indian company.
Curing the Diseases of Poverty Franklin Cudjoe 2007
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The discussion was triggered by antipatent comments posted on the publisher’s Web site.
E-COMMERCE THE STAFF OF The Wall Street Journal 2001
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