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nonpatent

nonpatent adjective: not a patent.

Adjective

nonpatent (not comparable)

  1. Not a patent
    • The United States Patent Office classified search files currently consist of about 18 million United States patent documents, about 12 million foreign patent documents, and about 2 million documents of nonpatent literature.1995, Fred K. Carr, Patents Handbook: A Guide for Inventors and Researchers to ..., →ISBN
    • NPR is a simple count of the number of references in a patent application to a wide variety of nonpatent publications, including scientific papers and articles, brochures, books, standards, documents, patent disclosure bulletins, and so on.2003, Mark Hirschey, Tech Stock Valuation: Investor Psychology and Economic ..., →ISBN, page 164

Origin of nonpatent

From non- + patent.

Questions about nonpatent

What does nonpatent mean?
Nonpatent means not a patent.
What part of speech is nonpatent?
Nonpatent is an adjective.

Words near nonpatent in the dictionary

  1. nonpasta
  2. nonpasteurized
  3. nonpastoral
  4. nonpastry
  5. nonpasture
  6. nonpatent
  7. nonpatentability
  8. nonpatentable
  9. nonpatented
  10. nonpaternal
  11. nonpaternity

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