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0 laws that protect a person or a company that has created a new product or way of doing something, by stopping anyone else from copying or using it for a particular period of time:
apply for/extend/grant patent protection The biotechnology firm said it was applying for patent protection for the discoveries.
Previous drugs lost patent protection and succumbed to copycat competition.
