• The drug is owned and patented by Hoffmann-La Roche.
• patented heat-transfer technology
• The easiest way to earn money from a patented invention is to license someone else to use it, and collect royalties.
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»a patented technology
• Certified as original, in a way
• Highly individual
• Protected from imitators
• Protected, in a way
• Registered, as an invention
• Staked a scientific claim on
• Unduplicatable, in a way