"teach away" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "teaches away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teaching away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taught away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taught away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "teach<,,taught> away"
      },
      "expansion": "teach away (third-person singular simple present teaches away, present participle teaching away, simple past and past participle taught away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
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            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bainbridge Lipscomb, Anthony William Deller, Lipscomb's Walker on Patents: Volume 9, page 1034:",
          "text": "A statement that a particular combination is not a preferred embodiment does not teach away absent clear discouragement of that combination.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Philippe Georges Ducor, Patenting the Recombinant Products of Biotechnology, page 49:",
          "text": "By focusing specifically on the Weissman method, which arguably taught away from the invention, the Federal Circuit court avoided to discuss the more general prior art probing methods the applicants had actually used.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, J. Michael Thesz, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, page 163:",
          "text": "Disclosed examples and preferred embodiments do not constitute a teaching away from a broader disclosure or nonpreferred embodiments.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "teach away"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "teaches away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teaching away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taught away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taught away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "teach<,,taught> away"
      },
      "expansion": "teach away (third-person singular simple present teaches away, present participle teaching away, simple past and past participle taught away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Law"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bainbridge Lipscomb, Anthony William Deller, Lipscomb's Walker on Patents: Volume 9, page 1034:",
          "text": "A statement that a particular combination is not a preferred embodiment does not teach away absent clear discouragement of that combination.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Philippe Georges Ducor, Patenting the Recombinant Products of Biotechnology, page 49:",
          "text": "By focusing specifically on the Weissman method, which arguably taught away from the invention, the Federal Circuit court avoided to discuss the more general prior art probing methods the applicants had actually used.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, J. Michael Thesz, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, page 163:",
          "text": "Disclosed examples and preferred embodiments do not constitute a teaching away from a broader disclosure or nonpreferred embodiments.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention."
      ],
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        "(law) In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "teach away"
}