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patent law

patent law noun: the body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.

Noun

patent law (uncountable)

  1. The body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.
    • Discovery, commonly, is as well applied to the finding out of any old thing as of a new one; while invention, in patent law, relates especially to absolute origination.1895, International Correspondence Schools, Instruction Paper With Examination Questions, page 5

Questions about patent law

What does patent law mean?
Patent law means the body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.
What part of speech is patent law?
Patent law is a noun.

Words near patent law in the dictionary

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