Definition of "patents" []

• Plural form of patent. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patent. (verb)

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• "NB The best thing to do with respect to patents is to publish your patentable work in order to establish it as prior art, i.e. unless some blighter has already patented it."
• "The case for drastically reducing and eventually abolishing medical patents is clear: they raise the social cost of drugs, and medicine, while providing little or even a negative incentive for medical innovation."
• "However we decide to treat stage III trials, the economic case against pharmaceutical patents is clear: they do more harm than good."