independent invention

collocation in English

meaningsofindependentandinvention

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independent
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dənt/us
/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dənt/
not influenced or controlled in any way by other people, events, ...
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invention
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈven.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈven.ʃən/
something that has never been made before, or the process of creating something that has never been ...
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(Definition ofindependentandinventionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When these social and economic forces dictated, cultural innovations might be adopted through diffusion or (more rarely)independentinvention.
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He was on the verge of anindependentinventionof networked hypertext.
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Due to its straightforward correspondence to the standard notation, it is possible that many other claims ofindependentinventionare also true.
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The comments refined the definition by listing several "proper" means of discovery, including discovery byindependentinvention, reverse engineering, licensing arrangement, and published literature.
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Clean room design is useful as a defense against copyright and trade secret infringement because it relies onindependentinvention.
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However, becauseindependentinventionis not a defense against patents, clean room designs typically can not be used to circumvent patent restrictions.
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Wartime secrecy kept these inventors from knowing about each other's designs, leading to each being anindependentinvention.
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If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be anindependentinvention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history.
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Carter believed thatindependentinventionof the same item was a rarity.
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Such cases, however, of thebona fideexistence of identical and independent inventions would be extremely rare.
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Up to the year 1990, the company had been granted 450 patents, of which 210 were independent inventions.
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