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Sometimes a larger nursery might pick up on Mr. Bowen’s successful but unpatented crosses and selections, ramp up production and capitalize.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

The practice of buying patents in order to make money out of popular unpatented inventions is known as patent trolling.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2017

Of course, you can eat patented popcorn the same way you can consume its unpatented cousin.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2012

He advocates instead unpatented mixtures made by compounding pharmacies—like his.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 14, 2012

It is surprising that this simple and unpatented method of design has not met with more favor and has scarcely been used, even in tests.

From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Godfrey, Edward