Frameset - infringe-v

Predicate: infringe

infringe: Frames file for 'infringe' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry.

Roleset id: infringe.01 , go where you don't have the right, vncls: , framnet:

infringe.01: The non-prepositional usage sounds wrong to me, but maybe it's dialectal.

Roles:

Arg0: infringer
Arg1: infringed (up)on

Example: usually prepositional

        person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full

        A lower court in St. Paul had ruled in September 1988 that a heart
        catheter SciMed manufactures doesn't infringe on a patent owned by
        Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, a unit of Eli Lilly & Co.

        Arg0: a heart catheter SciMed manufactures
        ArgM-NEG: n't
        Rel: infringe
        Arg1: on a patent owned by Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, a unit of Eli Lilly & Co

Example: occasionally not prepositional

        person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full

        SciMed said it ``remains committed'' both to the ``vigorous
        defense'' of its position that the catheter doesn't infringe the
        Lilly unit's patent, and to the pursuit of its own counterclaims,
        which allege Lilly engaged in antitrust violations and other
        wrongful acts.

        Arg0: the catheter
        ArgM-NEG: n't
        Rel: infringe
        Arg1: the Lilly unit 's patent