invalidity

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Recent Examples of invalidity Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics. Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024 Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025 But patent invalidity suits—which test whether the patent claimed by the plaintiff is indeed valid and are the preferred defense for companies being sued for infringement—go through a special German patent court, which can take up to three times longer to render decisions. Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021 Gallagher’s greeting card company Full Colour Black started an invalidity action in March 2019 to cancel the EU trademark on the iconic mural, arguing that Banksy must copyright his work instead of registering trademarks to incorporate them. Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022 The Supreme Court said its declaration of invalidity is retroactive to the date the 2011 law was enacted, meaning those who have been sentenced under the statute can now seek relief. Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 Label choice bias is far more common than subgroup invalidity. Carol McCall, STAT, 12 Aug. 2021 Echelon’s invalidity arguments are similar to those raised by Flywheel over related patents. BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidity
Noun
  • Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • The decision of Democrats to ignore Biden’s infirmity and boost him in 2024 looked risky at the time.
    Michael Graham, Boston Herald, 21 May 2025
  • This decision, framed by loyalty and political considerations, obscured the president’s infirmity at a moment of pivotal international consequence.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • President Biden’s troubles — lingering inflation, wars and rumors of wars, his debility — could have benefited any Republican.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • This field includes liquid biopsy, referring to techniques that process bodily fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva for different disease biomarkers.
    Cat Wang, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • The Mayo Clinic says the disease is most often diagnosed when people are in their mid-60s.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
    Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When glutes are weak or underactive, other muscles take over in ways they aren’t meant to, which often leads to discomfort, dysfunction and even injury.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
  • Other nations, witnessing the back-and-forth and the dysfunction, have already moved towards a strategic stepping back from the United States on trade.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • While the dollar strengthened for the second day on Wednesday, Jefferies thinks the greenback could be in for an extended period of weakness.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 28 May 2025
  • One weakness in Capture One's utility as a workflow solution has been its lack of sharing to established online photo venues, but there's a ray of light on this count.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The Incas had advanced calendars and ceramics as well, and perfected a type of neurosurgery, likely to treat skull wounds suffered in battle, among other ailments.
    Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 26 May 2025
  • The death was attributed to a liver ailment, which veterans said had nothing to do with Siwash’s fondness for beer.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025

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