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patentholders

patentholders is the plural of patentholder.

Meaning of patentholder

Noun

patentholder (plural patentholders)

  1. The holder of a patent.
    • The advantage of adopting an abandoned drug is that the former patentholder has usually done the chemical analyses, animal studies and, sometimes, early human trials, saving millions of dollars.2008 January 8, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease”, in New York Times

Questions about patentholders

What is patentholders the plural of?
Patentholders is the plural of patentholder.

Words near patentholders in the dictionary

  1. patenter
  2. patenters
  3. patentese
  4. patentest
  5. patentholder
  6. patentholders
  7. patentholding
  8. patenting
  9. patentless
  10. patentlike
  11. patently

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patentholders (page history and authors); patentholder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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