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If an idea isn't protected and the company determines it isn't proprietary or protectible, Kraft says its policy is that the company could use the idea and pay the submitter $5,000 or less.

My Brain, Your Brawn 2008

“Plots are rarely protectible, because there are very few independently created plots.”

Let’s Get Transformative « Whatever 2007

“Plot constitutes a protectible expression only to the extent it was independently created.”

Let’s Get Transformative « Whatever 2007

Copyright Office covering the protectible content of stickers containing emergency water heater shutdown procedures.

I'm your only plumber but I'm not actually your plumber Rebecca Tushnet 2006

The release-seeking agency wants to protect itself by indicating it won't be entering into a "special" relationship with you i.e., one in which your raw ideas are protectible just by reading your stuff.

Please release me, let me go. I don't love you aneeeeee more. Miss Snark 2005

*** For purposes of this decision, we assume that a child has a protectible interest not only in being free of unnecessary bodily restraints but also in not being labeled erroneously by some persons because of an improper decision by the state hospital superintendent.

Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

Assuming the existence of a protectible property or liberty interest, the Court has required a balancing of a number of factors:

Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

But if, regarding the War with Spain, the “central question” turns on the contention that the acquisition of the Philippines was “the product of a conscious, pragmatic effort to provide … integrated, protectible trade routes across the Pacific,” the policy seems irrational, the argument dubious, and the evidence lacking.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

As to whether this route was “protectible,” the question is, against whom?

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

But if, regarding the War with Spain, the “central question” turns on the contention that the acquisition of the Philippines was “the product of a conscious, pragmatic effort to provide … integrated, protectible trade routes across the Pacific,” the policy seems irrational, the argument dubious, and the evidence lacking.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967