When does a personnel matter lose its guaranteed protection and become public information?

This makes the person an outlaw; they have no civil rights and lose their protection from the state.

They too have lost their protection - what little they had of it.

Other shortages have occurred soon after a drug has lost its patent protection.

The thought of losing his protection made her stomach lurch.

According to Pfizer officials, several of the products made at the plant have recently lost patent protection or will soon.

And about 40 percent of the 65 percent in the next 18 months will lose patent protection.

Zocor is expected to lose its patent protection in 2006.

If their classification were to change, they could lose their federal protection.

After 1997, sales will probably plummet, based on the experience of other drugs that have lost patent protection.