takesy backsies

LISTEN. THIS IS CRAZY. BUT I… …I WANT TO ACCEPT YOUR OFFER. LET ME STUDY AT YOUR SIDE. PROVE MYSELF…WORTHY. SO I CAN HELP YOU FIGHT. / NO TAKESY BACKSIES.

2012, Greg Pak, Doctor Strange: Season One, New York, N.Y.: Marvel Worldwide, →ISBN

Yes, that's very mature. You said something irrelevant, but I was "wrong". What's next--no takesy backsies?

2014 April 29, trotsky, “40,000 Trotskys, carrying weapons, meet in Toronto”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025

The position following Edwards v Cook [2009] FSR 27 is this: When an applicant claims priority from a patent filed by a third party they must, at the time of their patent filing, own the substantive right to make that priority claim. The red tape comes in partly because nobody except patent lawyers cares about this right, but significantly also because there’s no takesy backsies: you can’t make good on it afterwards by subsequently acquiring the rights. Either you have the substantive right at the relevant date, or you’ve lost the priority claim.

2017 November 17, Annsley Merelle Ward, “Birss J in Accord v Research Corporation Technologies attempts to cut the red tape on the right to claim priority”, in IPKat, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2017

“I’m sorry I made you cry. Pretend I didn’t propose to you.” / He tried to snap the ring box close, but she grabbed it. / “There is no takesy backsies.”

2025, Melissa Schroeder, “Epilogue”, in Only You (The Fitzpatricks; 2), Harmless Publishing, →ISBN