asituationin which apersonor acompanybreaksthelawby using aproductwhich has apatentwithoutpermission:Alawsuithas beenfiledagainst thecompanyforpatentinfringement.apatentinfringementcase/claim/lawsuit(Definition ofpatent infringementfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpatent infringement
patent infringementBy 1926 copycat versions were on the market, and he spent much of his time and money fightingpatentinfringement.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Use of these patents requires licensing; use without license generally constitutespatentinfringement.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In many countries, a use is required to be "commercial" (or to have a "commercial" purpose) to constitutepatentinfringement.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For third parties,patentinfringementinsurance covers their legal costs in case they are sued forpatentinfringementby an inventor.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Patentinfringementinsurance is generally considered too expensive to be worth the cost.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These agreements allow each party to practice the other party's patented inventions without the threat of being sued forpatentinfringement.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The matter led to apatentinfringementcase.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When faced with an action forpatentinfringement, the defendant has a number of defences that they can use.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The claimant should receive compensation that would restore it to the position it would have occupied should thepatentinfringementhave never occurred.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the second subjective factor that has been identified as increasing the length and cost ofpatentinfringementsuits.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/patent-infringement##
